So I got my new bike home and shortly thereafter went for a ride. M and I did our usual route from Sherwood Park to Edmonton, a route which I highly recommend by the way. A tunnel under the freeway takes you to a footbridge across the river and before you know it, you are downtown.
Ze new bike, she is fast ...
Really fast.
Other observations: the front end is a little harsh. You feel bumps on this bike. Granted I've been riding a 1970s ten speed, but I don't remember my Lemond being this harsh. I can live with it but one small stupidity irritates me: the front fork is straight in that inelegant mountain bike style -
Which raises the question: if a curve is good on the back, why not on the front?
Why did they get rid of the old style curved front forks and add a curve to the rear seatstays?
It proves a theory of mine, which is that the marketplace sucks and what passes as innovation is usually just change for change's sake.
And finally: cleaning the mud off the bike, I start to become aware that there is a lot of all-caps italic text on this bike.
My bike is yelling.
Ze new bike, she is fast ...
Really fast.
Other observations: the front end is a little harsh. You feel bumps on this bike. Granted I've been riding a 1970s ten speed, but I don't remember my Lemond being this harsh. I can live with it but one small stupidity irritates me: the front fork is straight in that inelegant mountain bike style -
And yet the rear seatstays have that newfangled curve to them, supposedly to add flex and comfort.
Why did they get rid of the old style curved front forks and add a curve to the rear seatstays?
It proves a theory of mine, which is that the marketplace sucks and what passes as innovation is usually just change for change's sake.
And finally: cleaning the mud off the bike, I start to become aware that there is a lot of all-caps italic text on this bike.
My bike is yelling.
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