Just put my first bike up for sale...

[hebe]

A Giant road bike was my first adult bike. I loved everything about it, but the color. I always hated the blue. When I sold it, it went to a young girl just getting into triathlon, and she was over the moon thrilled with it, so I was OK parting with it. I did cry, tho, when she drove out of my driveway with it.

LOVE that you're getting the mixte!! It's a beautiful bike, and I'm sure you will just adore it!!

Poor you! I don't think I'll cry when this one goes, but who knows, I sobbed at my 4-year old carrying a cardboard Olympic torch at her sports day this afternoon. I am looking forward very much to getting the mixte

I stripped my first bike of most of its parts (which went on my red Eddy) and the frame just sat for a long time. I eventually brought it to my lbs and told them to find it a home. It ended up going to a fisherman's wife, and I got fish in trade. I could probably still be cashing in on the fish, but it never occurs to me to ask.

I was the second owner, and with no parts, I was just happy to see it rebuilt and used. I heard she loved it.

I LOVE this story. Bikes for fish, way cool

My first road bike went to another member in our club. She has a daughter on the west coast so she wanted a bike there for when she visited.

I do like these happy ever after bike stories.

I'm sure this will be bittersweet, parting with a trusty friend, however there is the allure of the new bike to offset

Yes!

Ya, three bikes is about right. Tho I do have a couple more old old steel ones hanging in garage that don't count since they are not rideable without alot of work lol but I digress.

I sold my first real road bike thru my lbs. The shop got a new owner that I really like. He gave me quite a good deal on my profit return on the bike. It went to a man cyclists looking for a good first road bike for his newly cycling wife. So that was a happy home. Not a huge profit for the shop. But I send him business and spend all my lbs money with him. So, pays off in the end I guess.

That bike was however WAY too big for me. I majorly got screwed over by the shop that sold it to me. It was painful still to let it go. Thinking of the sickening fnancial mess it caused, and pain in my body. Tho the good thing was I found TE as a result. So that part was happy. Still a pretty bike tho.

Btw, my three bikes are: carbon Orbea roadie, not super light, but plush for the road distances; Trek hard trail mtb, perfect for technical stuff; and Nashbar brand special xc bike, LOVE this little bike, part commuter urban some trails road all around work horse fun pony... and to be the lowest on the food chain, I would never have guessed how much I adore her.

Good Luck!

Thank you. I love that you adore your all-purpose bike