It's All Mental

I went for a ride yesterday because it was beautiful out (43*, it's all relative) and because I need to find time to ride more.  While I'm improving with each ride, coming off of an injury is humbling.  I've made up my mind to try and get in harder rides in an attempt to ride myself into shape faster, but that is proving to have some challenges I hadn't anticipated.  Most of them mental.

A little follow up on the last post

In my last post I listed my "if my bike breaks" replacement ideas.  I made a comment about the SL4 Roubaix and never meeting my heroes.  Sure enough, the Specialized rep for our shop stopped by with his SL4 Expert frame.  It also had a pre-production Cobl Gobl-R seatpost.  So I just had to take it for a ride.

Things I'm excited about at the moment

Bikes.  I'm excited about bikes.  I haven't posted anything here in a while because I hurt my ankle and had to take most of January and almost all of February off the bike.  I've started riding again, but it had been slow goings.  Work has picked up for me, so I haven't had the free time I'm used to either, so it's been tough.  I've been thinking about bikes a lot and here are a few Bikes I've been thinking about...