New bike

[Veronica]

It's nice. The orange bar tape is very cool.

Veronica

[snapdragen]

It's nice. The orange bar tape is very cool.

Veronica

Tease.

[Catrin]

Tease.

Yes, we want to see pictures NOW

Hope you had a good ride today!

[jobob]

Sorry for the delay, I was passed out on the couch for a while ...

Here's V's nice new ride




And, drumroll ...


It's here! It's here!



Oh boy oh boy



mp & V looking it over



Happy owner



Oooh so clean!

[maillotpois]

Thanks, Jo! I will post some close up nice pics tomorrow, but we were too busy rushing around and making up for ditching the kid all day to go ride....

We picked up the bike so late last night I did not ride it at all, not even around the block. So it was a huge leap of faith to take a brand new bike on a 70 mile ride with some extended climbs, but the bike was AMAZING. Snappy, light, responsive. It just wants to GO. I was a bit nervous about the compact gearing, but it really was great, and I have the nice IRD dinner plate cassette on back (well, ok, a dessert plate). I suspect with any gearing you'd want a little easier gear at the top wall of Diablo, but honestly the rest of the time was fine. And I didn't miss the in between gears you lose with the compact at all. So DH will not be trading me his triple for the new Record 11 stuff (that was our backup plan if I didn't like this). The new Record shifts so snappy and smooth.

Great job on the ride, BTW. And nice to see Thom and V.

[redrhodie]

Wow! Gorgeous new bikes! Glad the ride was great! Many more happy miles to you!

[roguedog]

Oooh.. nice. Thanks, Jobob!

We need some glamour shots though so we can truly drool.

I've heard Dario does amazing things w/ alum; that while it's retained the weight of alum, he's given it many of the ride qualities of steel. And that this bike is a "rocket." It's built to GO. Should be stiff and fast but still somewhat chatterless and smooth.

How did you feel at the end of the ride? Would you say it's an all day rider?

And what's the IRD cassette size on there? Looks like it's respectively normal enough to still keep the record rear der. 13-29 or something?

[jobob]

We picked up the bike so late last night I did not ride it at all, not even around the block. So it was a huge leap of faith to take a brand new bike on a 70 mile ride with some extended climbs, ...

You're kidding!!

That was one helluva ride for its maiden voyage. Very well done!

[jobob]

Great job on the ride, BTW.

Heh, prima donna hissy fit at the top of Morgan Territory notwithstanding ...

[snapdragen]

I'm sorry MP, that bike is just ugly. Send it to me, I'll take care of it for you. ***did she fall for it?**



Hissy fit? Did someone get cranky?

[jobob]

Here's a link to the gps trace of the maiden voyage of mp's lovely new ride.
This is the trace from my own gps, so please don't for a moment think that mp rode this as abysmally slowly as did I


I'd call it Trial by Fire, but it was more like Trial by Iceberg, it was freakin' freezing out ...