Adding to the family

Since I am doing a sprint Tri in October and I already want a bike with gears (although I still love cupcake!) it was time to start hunting around. While the bike shop crew all thought it would be AWESOME for me to ride cupcake during my tri I explained that it was a hilly 20k, and without gears I would be doing MUCH more walking than biking.

Soo…it was time to investigate.
I started off looking are multiple options, and when none ended up in my size I got QUITE frustrated. But then…Brian came through! One of the guys (ok all of the guys) I work with helped me solve my problem of being bikeless apes. Brian found a Gary Fisher cyclocross bike...IN MY SIZE!! So I checked it out, and here it is:

Gary Fisher Erwin

Pretty beautiful, huh? Well what’s even better than its beauty is the actual bike!! Here comes my bike talk:

- Steel Frame
- Carbon Fiber fork
- Tiagra shifting- 105 rear derailleur

So for those of you non-bike linguists, what’s cool about a cyclocross bike? It’s made for THIS kind of racing:
Think tons of mud, and a course where you have to carry the bike over stuff as well as parts where you ride.

What does that mean for me? It means I now have the option of doing a cyclocross race!! (ok ok, let me get through my sprint tri, AND my marathon first, then we’ll see what happens).

I should get my new addition to my “family” sometime this week, so look for a post on how much I (hopefully) love it!

- apes -