New Bike Pics

[Veronica]

None of the full bike pics made the cut.

I'm taking it out on a local trail this morning.

Veronica

[murielalex]

Damb! If Batman had a bike........

[Catrin]

ummmmm, pardon me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard - that is a seriously awesome bike! Whewww! Congratulations, and now I am eagerly anticipating your first ride report

[Veronica]

Took it out to the local regional park - all fire roads, lots of steep climbing and descents. LOVE IT! We have this black, hard soil that gets really big cracks in it. It's like riding through a rock garden. The bike just floated over it. It shifts beautifully, even under stress. I saw a coyote, maybe two, or the same one twice. And something that looked like a black squirrel. I need to find out what other kind of critter it might have been. There were also a couple of egrets at the reservoir.

Veronica

[Veronica]

Thom ordered it with a dropper seatpost for me. I forgot to play with it today. Seriously, I was just enjoying the ride so much.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

Droooool.


(Local populations of black squirrels aren't terribly uncommon, are you sure it wasn't a squirrel you saw? There are lots of them in an area near me, but they stay in maybe a 2-3 mile radius. But it could've been something in the weasel family, too.)

[Veronica]

I'm not positive it was a squirrel. It was squirrel sized, but I was going downhill and it was running off the trail... It was definitely black and different from all the other squirrels I saw.

Veronica

[Owlie]

I feel like that first photo should be accompanied by "Also Sprach Zarathustra."

It's beautiful.

[indysteel]

Whoa, that bike is hot. I'm so glad you love it. Did you happen to weigh it? I love my Santa Cruz, but light it is not.

[Veronica]

26.75 pounds. It's about a pound heavier than my aluminium hardtail.

Veronica

[Veronica]

I've got about 25 miles on the bike now, with another ten miles today and 1700 feet of climbing. I've mastered the art of dropping and raising the seat, so it's not such a surprise. I rode Thom's bike for a bit today while he tried out mine. His bike is just like my old bike. I blurted out a little while ago that his bike sucks. Let's see, my bike rides much better over the rocks and oddly cracked, hard black dirt. The brakes are better; it shifts better and more smooth;y. The handlebars are wider. It climbs and descends better. He'll get a new bike n a couple of months. He wants a new camera first.

I am glad I rode his bike because it's made me really grateful that we bought me a new one!

Veronica

[ridebikeme]

Very nice Veronica... have fun with your new bike

[brigada]

Awesome bike and equally awesome photos!

[Irulan]

Nice. Dropper posts rule.

[thekarens]

Nice. Dropper posts rule.

This! :-)