well it's been a while since I posted anything but that's cause I don't relaly have internet. So anyway i'm in the science library so I can type o.O. I went to get my mountain bike Redline Mono9 the tune up on saturday. Well while I was getting it tuned up. I decided to jump on one of their Specialized Roubaix expert compact ultegra bike. Long story short, after a good 40min testing on it cause god knows I couldn't fucking let it go I found it to be:
1, ridiculously fast.
2, don't strain my lumbar injured back.
3, it's light... it uses the fulchrom racing 5 wheels which aren't really great, but if I wanted the lighest ones which were fulchrom racing 0 which are like 300 grams lighter than those it would cost me an additional $1.1k for those wheels which I doubt I can afford.
4, did I mention it was fast o.O.... I went probably 3-4 times faster on that bike than I could ever go on my mono9 and the only even remote comparison to speed would be i slap on maximum gear on the mono9 and go downhill and still it didn't feel quite as alive as the roubaix expert. You have to test it to understand what i'm talking about it.
So here's the problem.
1, I just bought mono9 a month ago for $1.2k.
2, I only have $510 in paypal.
3, My guitar worth $1.6k-$1.7k depend how I sell it but I won't do that because god knows I've waited how long to get that guitar.
4, I don't think I am physically attired to fit that bike.
So why do I want that bike?
1, It's freaking fast. I've never gone that fast on a bike.
2, Maybe enter competitive biking. Thou LOL on this one. Let's take the Paris-Roubaix competition. 160miles. This year's winner Tom Boonen finished it in 5hrs 58mins and 42seconds. Which means I would have to start averaging 27miles/hour for a endurance of 6hours in order to compete at that pro level. The way I figure it, my Mono9 could never do 27miles/hour even if I could, not to mention the sourness from riding that bike for only an hour. The roubaix expert I tested for 40mins was faster and I didn't even feel 1/5th tiredness like my mono9 which means 27miles/hour feels like do-able. Right now I can slam out on maximum gear on my mono9 straight without shifiting gear 12miles/45mins. Which I figure isn't a bad time though not super great. If I could say, Do about justice of 18miles/hour on my mono9 I'm willing to somehow scrunge up the money and buy that bike and do some serious biking. Granted right now I feel like I really really want the roubaix expert I simply not willing to sell my guitar(s) just quite yet. After all I just bought the Mono 9 a month ago. So to do the mountain bike justice I might do the south washington trail first and foremost this september when my class ends on friday and I have moved my stuff.
However if you feel like donating in the cause of helping me to my bike, feel free to head over to galoreservers.net and do some donations
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