All I needed was a new saddle…
Actually, I didn’t really need a new saddle. All that transpired is a result of much needed retail therapy because I was right but I couldn’t get people to listen to my rightness. Because my rightness didn’t mesh with the professor’s portrayal of rightness. I am more right though, they just don’t know it yet. The time will come for my rightness to be exploited, it’s just not today.
No, today, any rightness that could be portrayed by anyone was thrown down the drain so that I could impulse shop. (Sorry bike master Mark in Minnesota, I couldn’t help it).
My retail therapy began after an hour of my rightness being dutifully ignored because it wasn’t what the professor had said. Fine, whatever, I’m going shopping. I want a new saddle for my bike and I have a $40 dividend to spend at REI. I love REI, it makes me tingle. So, I went to REI. When it’s spring time and the weather is nice and summer’s around the bend, and there’s so much to do outside, there’s really no better place to participate in retail therapy.
So I walk into REI and immediately head for the saddles. It didn’t take me long to choose one, I didn’t want a big fat cushy one, but I did want some padding. What I walked out with was more than my $40 dividend, but it was well worth the extra $10. I walked out with a WTB Speed V Saddle. I was a very satisfied customer. Right up until I got to my car and decided what I really needed was a new bike.
I found a Trek bike that I liked at the first store that I went to but I really didn’t want to pay the price and I really didn’t like the guy that helped me, the vibes I got weren’t all that great, so I left there and went to a store that 2 years ago I didn’t like because they were inattentive to their customers. The guy that helped me today was extra attentive even during the busy moments. So, I bought a bike from him, a mountain bike, a Giant Boulder SE. And he farm proofed the tires for me (guaranteed not to puncture for a year, good for the goat heads that we have out here on our trails) and sent me on my way.
In all my excitement, I had to go test my new bike (I had intended on riding anyways). The bike was beautiful, the ride, not so much, there was this hideous headwind, I can’t tell exactly how quickly the wind was moving, but according to Google when I got home, it was 20 mph from the south, so, that slowed me down, actually, it didn’t slow me down, it just make me work harder, much much much harder. I did the same distance that I did on Saturday, but I shaved 10 minutes off my time, so instead of 50 minutes, it took me 40 minutes to do my 8.4 miles giving me an average of about 13 mph. So, my speed is good, I’m just going to have to work on distance now. I need 3 times the distance I’ve been going to be prepared for CA.
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March 26th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
i don’t know where to start.
WTB, not the best gear, they mass manufacture with raleigh’s and even though Raleigh is a decent brand, i don’t dig their style with low-mid/upper end bikes because they’re poorly made chinese pieces of crap. any bike in a box you see come in, the frame will be bent. which is analogous to my opinions of Giant, they’re a sellout outsourced company that has poor management with their trades over seas.
the good sides to your purchase is you did buy a bike for a price that we sell maybe our bottom 5% stock for that has better components than those by a factor of two or three. the basic shimano being either a bland shimano department store, or the generic normal bike store brand would be the Shimano Tourney which we buy for what, 5 bucks. you got one a factor of i think my guess is 5 better retailing in closer to 30. it’ll last longer, shift smoother with a heavier load even when you’re tourquing the rear wheel even though i’d not suggest it since i bet your sexy ass legs can put out quit ea bit of power. but i’m biased toward trek, i always will be. i get them used for ridiculously cheap prices and fix them up. it’s the only price efficient way to get a ‘good’ bike.
for your ride, keep it up sex-machine