A post about my new bike.

A special package came this past Thursday, one that I had been waiting for since Saturday when I ordered it.

Bike in a box.

My new ride has arrived!  This is the one that will be carrying me through my first triathlon, and hopefully beyond.  There is just one problem, it needs put together, set up, and adjusted. It is not that I am not capable, I am very capable. It is just that I know pretty much nothing about bikes. How they are setup, how to adjust them, how the individual parts are supposed to operate.

Enter my super bike wizard uncle Scot. My uncle has been riding most of his life and most definitely knows how to build, fix, adjust, and ride a bike. He is quite literally a cycling encyclopedia.  So lucky am I to have such a great resource available to me. He was instrumental to me getting the best bike for me and the money I had available, and was elated when he offered to help assemble it with me. He has all of the right tools to make the job easier. So this past Saturday I headed down to Scot's house to get the assembly on, and I am glad he was helping.

In progress.

As you can see by the picture there was a fair deal of work to be done and adjustments to be made.  All in all the assembly went very smooth and I learned a great deal about my new bike and cycling in general. We, well mostly Scot had the bike together in about an hour or so, and soon enough all that was left to do was take it for a test ride.  Well that and for me to learn real quick how to ride a bike with clipless pedals and real bike shoes. Actually a quite scary proposition for me, I don't like feeling like I don't have a way out.  After a quick test ride in regular shoes I was ready to try out the new shoes with the pedals. Now to say that I had a few issues getting in the first pedal would be an understatement. I felt like such a noob, but after I got the first one on the second one was no problem. Man did this bike ride so smooth, it was all of the things my old bike wasn't. It was quite, shifted smoothly, stayed in gear, and felt down right easy to pedal even on some moderate hills. I can not be a more happy boy right now.

New bike and shoes.

A big shout of THANKS again to my uncle Scot for making the transition to and building of my new cycle smooth and enjoyable.