NORCO

So I trucked on down to the hockey store and test rode a Norco Search.  Or perhaps I should say a NORCO SEARCH, as that's how the name is printed on the frame (more about that later) .  It was very nice.  It rode great and it fit me well.  It was steel, my preferred frame material.  And it was on sale.  So I bought it.

And I don't regret doing so, because functionally it has been a great bike.  But I became aware of something, an aesthetic flaw that I had unthinkingly compromised on.  It is the thing that I will build this whole blog around.

My new bike, I realized-

Go on, admit it-

It's kind of, well-

Ugly.