Okay, so here I am.

New lurker, new road cyclist, new everything.

I've known about Team Estrogen for quite a while, but I finally got a REAL road bike (mountain bike'd a bit back around 2004-2006; rode a vintage 1960s Western Flyer around a bit the last couple of years)

Anyway, I FREAKING LOVE MY BIKE! Did I mention that I love my bike?

It's winter in Minnesota. I've been out Saturday, Sunday, and today. (Got the bike about two weeks ago, snow on the roads till Saturday). I'm so stoked! And so bummed that winter is COMING!

I'm riding a Scott Contessa Speedster 15 with eggbeaters (nothing else mod'ed yet) and I'm loving it! First ride was a 20 miler, and I thought I was going to be dying the next day, but I wasn't, so I took it out for a ride Sunday, around 16 miles, and today I dashed out of work for half hour and did 8 miles, including stop lights!

Okay. I'm done being stoked.

I keep trying to upload a pic of my bike, and the forum keeps saying "upload failed". I'll figure it out eventually.

In the meantime, I'm too excited to not share!