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September 24, 2004
More biking, part II
I woke up this morning wanting to take a ride. It's dark and raining steadily outside, however, and I have lots of work to do. Plus I need to get the kids partially ready for school.
Anyway, what I bought is a road bicycle. Road bicycles are built for riding fast on roads. They're not good for much else. Yet a reasonably good road bicycle is very good at going fast on roads.
The guy who sold me the bike sized it relatively large (61 cm frame) after taking my measurements. Here's what it looks like from the side and what I see when sitting on the seat looking down.
Although this bike is not the most expensive you can get, it has at least one part that looks really cool, which is the front fork. Unfortunately my picture of it is not good, but it fits very smoothly into the frame and gives you the impression that this bike is built to leave other people choking on your dust.
As you can see from the other photo, there are plenty of cogs on the rear sproket. 9 in all. So you have enough gears that most of your shifts are small, incremental changes. If you ride much at all over changing elevations, you know that's cool, too.
Posted by Mark at September 24, 2004 07:20 AM