It's Gotta Be The Bike....

....that's slowing me down, so had to get a new one. Unfortunately the steed won't see the road today, although I've been out for almost 4 hours on it the last two days and it's a beauty. It soaks up the road like the Cannondale never could, although I knew what I was getting with the Cannondale so I wasn't suprised and have always loved Cannondales by the way. But it was time for a carbon bike and I'm glad I took the plunge, this thing is like a Cadillac on the road as far as ride quality, but it feels like a dump truck heading up hills....oh wait, that's me that's the fatty dump truck. Actually the bike will fly up hills, if I weren't so fat I'd feel weightless on this thing, but as it stands I have some work to do with my fitness and then the GTR will do the rest. I blinged it out of course with some flames and lots of skulls, 14 to be exact. Yeah, it's not classy on the roadie scene, probably fitting in more with mountain bikers or cyclocross, but I'm a rocker and my favorite band is Avenged Sevenfold which rocks the skulls so I'm following suit. It's gotta be customized to follow my tastes, so that's that. I also added a lot of orange touches to it in the form of cable stops, crimps, handlebar plugs and spacers. I've got some Michelin Pro 3s coming in the nice Yellow Flash and Service Orange colors as well to liven it up. Nobody will miss me on the road this year. Check out some pics....you may not love the look, but that's o.k., we can't all be rockers at heart.....