Where do you keep your bike?

[Amira]

2012, 'cause it's on sale and I can get the Apex for about the price of the basic 2013 with the Sora components (my original budget wasn't even that high). I got the white/teal, because while the black/pink looked nice and all, I'm just not a pink person. (And to be honest, the better components on the Apex were just an excuse to not get the black and pink bike.)

The fact that my Amira came in a classic white/black/red combo (something I'll never get tired of and won't be 'so last year') and NOT pink was, while not the deciding factor, a major plus. I looked on Specialized's site after all this discussion and my Amira Comp Compact is now white/green/gray instead of white/black/red, but the major change is that they downgraded it from Ultegra to 105 components. The SL4Expert (I think) is closer to what I bought last year, component wise.

Crap, too bad my bike got stolen in November instead of September last year, so I could have taken advantage of the 2011 closeouts. As it was, I was buying early in the model year, but too late to get in on the closeout bargains.

Anyway, very excited about your new wheels. You'll love her.


signed,

so Not a pink person either.