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May 24, 2005
bike lust 
I probably did more cycling yesterday than I have in 17 years. I rode in, of course, with the weird noise. I took it to my bike shop, and the guy looked at it immediately, quickly made a couple fixes, and mentioned that the place where I bought this would give me a free tune up and I should take advantage of that. Hmmm, they never told me that.
So, after he took the quick look-see, I took a look-see at the toownies. I've had a schoolgirl crush on them for awhile, but I had never ridden one. And. They had a girl-pink one. What more do I need, a lightning bolt? So I took it for a ride.
Damn. Damn. Damn. It was fun. I felt comfortable on slight hills, much better than on my bike. I loved the coaster brake. I just felt this feeling of freedom, which I haven't really had with my bike.
Afterwards, I retraced the route on my bike. Yeah, not as fun.
So I tell sweetie. He's well aware that immediately upon buying my current bike, I fell hard for the toownie, so he's like, let's go bike shopping tonight. And so after a fast dinner of pho, we went to the bike store.
The pink only comes in 3 speeds. So, I tried out the 21. The gearing didn't seem to be set up right, and it was unhappy climbing the Alameda hill. So I come back and try the pink. Actually, much better. Not that it isn't hard, but let's face facts, my bicycle fitness is not terribly high. I brought it back in as they were closing, with the I gotta sleep on it line. I can't wait to go back and get it. I might not, though that seems unlikely.
Posted at May 24, 2005
Comments
cool...take a picture of the new bike for us! :)
Posted by: brent at May 24, 2005 3:08 PM
Um... excuse my ignorance, but what's a toownie? Do you have a link?
Posted by: Nancy Toby at May 24, 2005 7:31 PM
Here's one kind of like it (ignore the chicks):
http://www.kustomkruiser.com/catalog/kozmo.html
Posted by: Nancy Toby at May 26, 2005 12:24 PM