Looks like I have a longer gap between new bikes than most (all) here. My last bike purchase was my Fuji mountain bike, way back in late 2009. Wow, has it really been 5 years already?
I could almost count CaBi as a “bike purchase” since I’ve ridden those bikes more often than I’ve ridden my own bikes, especially over the past few years. I signed up with CaBi a week after the service started in Sept. 2010. I wore out the first bike key (probably because I used it so much?). It stopped working one day after my one-year anniversary. At first I thought it was programmed to do that, but I learned that this didn’t happen to other people.
My last bike-related purchase? A pair of Pearl Izumi triathlon shorts a couple weeks ago. I don’t like the thick chamois pads on road bike shorts, and the Pearl Izumi shorts feel much better than the De Soto shorts I’ve bought in the past. (The De Sotos have awkward seams that leave marks on my quads. I used to like them, until I found that the PI shorts don’t have those seams.) I bought the shorts even though I’m still not riding much at all. Zero rides in the past month and only 3 or 4 short rides total since early September (because of my quad issues). I’m more of a swimmer than a cyclist right now. Hopefully that changes in a couple weeks and I can get back on the bikes again.
P.S. I see that I have a new tagline: “I spend all day thinking about bikes and talking to people on the internet about them.” Awesome
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