Lunch and Ride

Well my plan did succeed. I threw the new Trek 7.3 FX in the back of my pickup while leaving in the morning, and had a very nice lunchtime ride. About a mile into it, I realized that I forgot something when I bought the bike - water bottle cage(s). Ooops. So I went to the bike shop on the Highway 2 path and picked one that matched my bike, a water bottle, and a little tool bag for below the saddle. The stats:

Calories (so far today): 862
Bike Miles: 5.64
Saddle time: 24 minutes
Bike total Miles (Trek FX): 5.64
Weather depart/return: 55 and sunny/58 and sunny



Internet, meet Zing. Zing, meet the Internet. That is the new bike, the Trek 7.3 FX. I'm so far extremely pleased, but need to take it to the shop tonight to have a couple very minor issues taken care of (spokes need tensioned, chain is kinda noisy).

Beyond that, holy crap am I pleased. It just kind of glides.. thanks to those skinny road tires. Notice the saddle time and mileage. For the majority of the ride I was even "taking it easy". Hell, the highway 2 trail was into a nice !@#!# headwind, according to NOAA 18mph with 26mph gusts out of the northwest. I was headed... guess... northwest! I managed the same speeds with less effort that I managed last night on the MTB.

After hitting up the bike shop, I rode to our new home to check out the driveway (note to self: shovel + salt tonight) in prep for Saturday's move. Then I finally got the balls to really get moving. 20mph is effortless. ON the hill down to our house I hit 30mph, which also took little effort.

On the way back I jumped on 48th street to avoid the cruddy sidewalks. I zipped down the flat stretch from Pioneers to Old Cheney at 25-29mph. Lots of effort, sure, but the best I could manage on that stretch on the MTB was around 18-19mph. Yeah, new bike is fast. And the computer is seemingly accurate as it clocked the distance from new-home to work spot on.

Anyway, good day for a light ride. I feel good after getting it in, and am anxious to get this bike out some more. First have to get those spokes tensioned a bit. And move. You know, priorities :).