I got a Carbon Frame… I HAVE A CARBON FIBRE FRAME!! Yipee!!! Now I just have to attach my Ultegra group, my wheels, my saddle… oh yeah, and the water bottle cages and I am all set. Except, when I put my new saddle on my current bike I did a bad job that when Dan saw it he got good and pissed, so this time I am going to make sure someone who really knows what they are doing assembles my bike. Sadly this means I won’t have my new bike until July 29, Dan is too busy until then, but at least I will be confident in the new bike’s assembly.
In case any of you are wondering, Lesley made it very clear to me, I must sell the ‘old’ bike. So if anyone out there wants a 2006 Roubaix (56cm), that I have had since April, she even comes with 105 pedals, just give me a holler. (The full history of the bike is pretty well documented right here on my blog.) I will even throw in a new chain, if the buyer promises to take good care of her, she’s a good bike, she just needs a new chain soon. (I took the wear gage to the chain a couple weeks ago, it was 0.5%, then on Sunday it was 0.75%, at this rate, two weeks from now the chain will be garbage and if I keep it any longer than 1% the cassette and the chain ring will be garbage too.)
Of course I need a new name for the new bike, I am thinking Lucy, feminized version of Lucifer since she’s bound to be a speed demon, but I’m not sure I like that name. (Sorry but I am really sick of calling my bike, The Roubaix, or worse, this would be “The Carbon Roubaix with the Ultegra Group” Geez, I’d be a walking advertisement every time I had to refer to one bike as opposed to the other.)
Other than that, I skated yesterday, for the first time since late May! I guess if I am going to have a picture of my skates here and call my blog Skater Dreams I really ought to skate at least once in a blue moon. Yesterday was a ‘work from home’ day for me, but I had planned to give blood, so I skated to the clinic near the office. Let me start by saying that at lunch time people are even more out to lunch than during rush hour. One guy in an Acura MDX (a huge Stupid Ugly Vehicle) nearly killed me when he made a left turn after not bothering to look. Then some pedestrians froze up when they saw me barreling towards them. Remarkably when I got to the clinic my blood pressure was only 126/66 mmHg, with a 70 bpm heart rate. One would think that all the excitement I had on the way to the clinic my rates would be an awful lot higher, I think all this biking is responsible for my better cardio health.
For anyone who cares to keep track of these things, I am at 61 donations, according to Canadian blood services, one donation can save three lives, so to 102, 103 and 104, sorry about that chocolate cake, but it was really really yummy going down. Of course thanks too my loss of approximately 10% of my blood volume I am going to have to take it easy for a few weeks, I probably won’t be doing anything with the Beaches Club for the whole of the week to come and then for the first few weeks after just the easy Saturday morning rides.
Meanwhile I am looking out the window here at my desk on the 27’th floor of a downtown office tower, and it is such a nice day. What a shame.
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