The suspense is KILLIN' me!!!

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Two weeks isn't so bad... in the spring. One day this two week wait will be a distant memory; I can't wait to see your new bike.

Except the bike was ordered in Aug. It's been a long almost 2 months. Maybe it's better than the 3 months that I had my current road bike before the roads were clear enough to ride outdoors--trainer rides are extra torturous, then. Man, Mother Nature and Old Man Winter were mean that year!

[Biciclista]

awwwwwwwww. sorry.

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Grrr...now I get why limewave cancelled her own Salsa (Mamasita) order a year ago and grabbed a Trek Superfly, instead. She waited and waited and waited and kept receiving ETAs from Salsa that would pass. She would have ended up with her bike months after they first said she would have it. Were I actually registered for Iceman I'd not be able to wait. I could have bought a registration from a friend, but decided if I didn't have my bike by last Friday that she should sell it to someone else who was interested.

So today marks 3 weeks since Salsa told me publicly on Twitter that my bike should be here "within 2 weeks." It sucks as I see people left and right getting new bikes, but my order was in months ago and I still wait. And as I wait the weather is going all to Hell and our nearest mountain bike land closes on 11/1 to hunters and doesn't re-open until May.

When I demo'd the El Mariachi 2 a week ago I got to experience just how godawful my current bike is...and now I am loathe to ride that at all. I can't keep up with anyone on that thing--even people who struggle to keep up with me on any other bike (and, crap, I won a women's cyclocross race on Sunday, this shouldn't be so damned hard). I'm redlining and dying up even tiny hills (and I usually am a sicko who kinda likes hills on any other bike) just trying to not be abandoned in BFE!

[Biciclista]

oh your bike will be wonderful and worth the wait. don't give up.

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Maybe you should just get something else? Totally sucks, sorry.

If you happen to come this way, we ride all winter here.

I don't have a lot of other options via my LBS. About the only other 29er they carry that would fit me is that goofy-looking Cannondale with the Delta-V top tube area. At first I thought those were kind of cool...until I started noticing that design is sort of the standard styling of kids' Wal-Mart bikes.

[Sky King]

kinda like being pregnant, the last month just drags on but once your new bundle of joy arrives you will be so glad you waited

[TrekDianna]

The suspense is killing me too!! I keep thinking we will see photos any day now!

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The suspense is killing me too!! I keep thinking we will see photos any day now!

I'd hoped to get some with the fall color as a backdrop, but if it doesn't get here like...NOW, then that won't be possible. Grr...a vibrant red bike would look so much better against colorful leaves than it will against brown, brown, gray, and brown.