Hey, it's cheaper than a new top-of-the-line Aethos.

Then maybe she'll suggest that you get one, too! :D

My Tuesday ride friends are all out of town on various riding adventures so I rode alone today on my old mtb loop. It was socked in with fog/marine layer so I got soaked on the climb. Put on everything I had for the descent but still got a little cold. A long time since I felt that sensation but it's supposed to go back up near 100 this weekend.

The Strava talk reminded me of being chastised this past Saturday by a guy for not having electronics on my bike. "Oh, just get a Garmin, at least, because yada yada yada". Told him I wasn't interested and he was shocked. "What about your heartrate monitor"? Told him I didn't have one of those, either. "WHAT???" He didn't believe me until I insisted.

Sunday I did my 2 hour spin around the bike path and there is a little park with water and bathrooms and I like to stop there and sit on a bench and have a snack. Another geezer was beginning his ride and he stopped to inform me that I should just keep going because if I sat for a while it would be harder to get going again. He looked at my bike and said something like "You probably know this already". I wanted to tell him I would be ok but he wouldn't shut up until he left.

We are still celebrating Christmas, just in a different manner this year.

Both kids are adults and have everything they want and/or need, so we talked to them to see if they would like to take a family trip together instead of doing Christmas gifts. They said they would like to do so since this will likely be our last "family" vacation with just the four of us (daughter is getting married next fall).

So, we are planning a week in Sedona together as our Christmas present to each other.

She should do it. That would be awesome.

He just got one.

On my C&V bikes, I really like the 'clean bar and stem' aesthetic, so I initially rode them without my Garmin*. Now that I have the Varia, though, it feels irresponsible to ride without it.

* I'm still a data junkie, so when I rode without it on the bars, I stuffed it in my jersey.

Find one.

Another one. A 2022 R5.

Come on, now, N+1 isn't difficult math. ;)

I meant decorations, not presents.

You must be new here.

Tell you what - let's ask the group.

HEY!!! Anyone else remember VV insisting he didn't live on the East Coast?

A clean cockpit is paramount.

I'm not new here.

I doubt that would do any good. I outweigh her by 75-80 pounds and she doesn't have near the health problems. :innocent:

Seriously, she's very savvy about bikes and what she likes, make that picky about bikes. I'd have to drive or fly to Colorado so she could go hands-on with it before she would commit to buying one. Charts and graphs and a three-part harmony just wouldn't cut it for her.

Back in 1967, my parents planned the last big family vacation for all 8 of us. We drove from PA up to Montreal, in the 66 Ford wagon with a pop-up camper. But my oldest sister threw them a curve and got married before we left, so it was just 7 of us.

So?


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What if you have a Paramount, but the cockpit isn't clean?

Excellent point.

At that price, the airfare and hotel are only a small fraction of the total cost. It's almost like buying a car you haven't driven.

I was in Excel a few years when they were closing out the Cervelos at the end of the season. There was someone there from Wyoming on a test ride.

Fun trip for you and the wife.

You guys are all so helpful. :rolleyes:

You don't have to convince me but Mrs.Trainsnorter might have a different view.
Long ago when I was married to a cyclist we alternated N+1. She didn't play by the rule though when she gifted herself a new Juliana full squish bike just before she left. She stole my turn.

That is not my recollection either. I recollect him insisting he is quasi-east coast, even though he is clearly land locked like a mf.

Can't argue with that.