after I went the last time to lake berryessa and looked at all these guys riding there bikes down the mountains and up again I decided maybe its time that I finally doing something for me and my body and start biking again. Problem you need a bike.
I was thinking how to afford this, cause like always I have many dreams and can't afford to buy everything like:
- nice stereo system
- a surfboard with 140 liters
- a bike
- a new car
- vacation
as we can see thats its quite a nice list. So I was thinking what makes the most sense, I would love to buy a surfboard, but for a matter of fact I can't afford to go more then 2/3 times a month surfing and my board what I just bought (115 liters) is nice, but its barley windy enough, So I delayed this another year.
- A stereo system, is not really neccessaery and I already spend way to much time in the flat...
- vacation, yeah nice, but on the other hand I'm in california and there is much left where I can go, specially arround davis/tahoe/yosemite
- A new car, very nice but my car works and drives me everywhere and gas gets more and more expensive. So for the next 6 Month it should be fine, once I fix the left bearing and my airconditioner (fan broken)
- A bike, its actually the only thing where I can save money, can do something with my girlfriend arround davis (once I fixed here bike, or we get her a new one). And if I ride it everyday to work, I would save arround 150$ a month.
There a basicly 5 kindes of bikes out there
- road bike
- mountain bike
- city bike/cruiser
- bmx
- hybrid (mix between road bike and city bike)
- bmx (way to small and I'm not into this making crazy tricks)
- mountin bike (when do I get into the mountains offroading and way to heavy)
- hybrid (I don't like 50/50 things and they look ugly)
Cause I like it fast and my dad always talked me into getting light things (like shoes and so) I decided to get a roadbike and my banking account hates me for this.
After I reasearched in the web for a couple of days and came to this list:
- minimum shimano 105 shifiting system, better ultegra
- click pedall system instead of strapes
- shoes
- helmet
- computer
- lights
- combination of carbon and aluminium frame
- the softes saddle possible
- under 10 kg
- changeable cranks
- at least 60 cm frame size ( I'm between 60 and 63)
what I got ( got an end of summer deal after long fighting with the salesperson) :
- combination of ultegra and 105 shifting system
- forte clicks, looks pedals where to expensive, forte a based on the look design
- shimano shoes
- carbon fork
- Aluminum Frame with Carbon Seat Stays
- 8.53 kg heavy
- simple computer, not wounderfull does the job
- a bottle and a holders
- a lock, cause kinda sucks if you need to go somewhere like a store to grab some foot
- some shorts, my butt hurts and I was way to warm in the pants I had one
- a trikot, cause you sweat terrible in the shirt I use right now
- a helmet, top priority, will buy it in the next week or as soon as I go into the mountains. I wanted to buy one at the shop, but could'nt get a fitting one.
- a larger crank once I get used to this bike, cause the front crank is a little bit to small for me. I will by it in a couple of month, once I reach the maximum and are in good enough condition to actually use it
- lights, I'm not going to buy some, cause the tires are so thin, if you miss one hole in the street you need a new tire. So no biking in the dark
- i need a permit to ride this bike on campus, what I refuse to buy, cause I'm not putting an ugly sticker on my bike
- a small wais bag, cause this stupid pants have no pockets for keys and so
- a second bottle holder with a bottle for obvious reason
- an ipod nano with wrist holder so I can enjoy music during the ride
- a stand to put the bike into the flat
- a couple of spare tubes in case of a flat tire
- contacts, cause with my glasses its kinda anoying to bike in this racing position
...now my girlfriend only needs a bike so we can make tours...
