Even though I ride only scooters, I liked the bike. It looks very stylish, ergonomic and professional. On seeing this bicycle you start wishing to get one yourself.

And you totally should. As you know I’m not too much into sports, but I also realize that just sitting all the time in front of computer and doing nothing else is not good either. Cycling is actually something that is good for your health and at the same is very much fun. I enjoy it a lot.

P.S. Turns out I got some sunburn today, not good. Misha, Sasha, are you guys OK?

You know me — I’m black, I don’t get sunburned

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Congratulations! The bike looks gorgeous, and you look great on it!

It was a lot of fun riding around yesterday, and I hope that we’ll keep enjoying this activity.

daamn looks more expensive then a car.
i think you need some more stickers

On what, the car? Or the bike? How about a new exhaust?

I’m looking at getting the same bike. What do you think about the bike. Seems like a good deal.

So far I like it a lot. On the first ride there was an issue with gear switching, but it was resolved at the store we bought it right away (comes with free year of service from our LBS).

I don’t have many basis of comparison — the only bike I rode before was an older XCross Cannondale, and this one definitely feels like it wastes less of my energy and transfers it into speed. It also fits me much better than my older bike, so that’s very important too. I don’t come back from a ride with soar elbows (that was my issue before).

[...] Today was horrible. Our cycling hobby that we grew to love so much came to an abrupt end. We kept the bikes stored behind 2 locked doors and a cage with another lock on it. They were both stolen today. [...]

Nice! I just bought the exact same bike in 58cm about a week ago. I’m in love with mine. Have you had a chance to do any long rides, yet? I’m wondering how I’ll hold up with the stiff frame after 50-60 miles pass.

Sadly I only had it for a month and the longest we did was about 20 miles.

You can see the comment above yours for more details.

At this point we decided that we can’t have bikes at our current residence which is a damn shame.

hmm. have you tried stretching? i get pains in my shins from runs. stretching helps most of the time.

I’m pretty sure that the pain is not in the muscles around the elbow, but the join itself. It’s been 5 days now and I still feel pain when I try to straighten out the arm.

Hehe… I look like I’m freezing

Да, хорошо мы покатались. В субботу мы часть пути ехали по велосипедной дорожке граничащей со скоростным шоссе, которая была отделена от потока машин широкой полосой. Дорожка эта мне больше всего понравилась, потому что можно было хорошо разогнаться (ровная дорога + отсутсвие пешеходов и едущих навстречу велосипедистов).

Alex, I have to to send this pic into the bike helmet police. Sorry, I have my principles.

I am really excited about my new bike! I woke up at 7:30 in the morning today and couldn’t really fall back to a normal sleep (which is totally not typical for me on a Saturday morning). I was tossing in the bed — half sleeping, half waiting for the alarm clock to work, so we could go to the store and pick the bike up.

I also must say that there is such a big difference in the cycling experience on the old crappy and new good bikes! I still feel a bit shaky on the bike and kind of afraid to ride close to the cars, but cycling on the empty path near the ocean was just awesome!

Awesome! Glad you finally made the move!
What are you doing with the other bike(s) now? If you still have either of ‘em, I’d love to join you for a ride, maybe next weekend.

We’re going to keep the mountain back around for you for some time. Not sure what to do with the pink one thought.

Thanks!
I’m telling you, send the pink one to Jeff

Looks like an awesome sport bike! I guess for this price this is something really high-end?

Actually like I said we wanted to buy something for approximately $1200, but the store owner convinced us that it’s not yet needed.

The main principal here is that expensive bike (in the range of $1000) is a huge upgrade compared to a $200-$300 bike with respect to pretty much everything. And then upgrades from $1000 to say $5000 are not as noticeable, not on our level at least.

Also we wanted to make sure that if we buy something, we’re not going to have to upgrade it 3 months later.

I felt tired by the end, but satisfied!

Oleg, the guy Danya’s dad used to work with, gave us another bike (mountain). I’ll try riding it next time — maybe it will feel better than the one we got for me.

Очень хорошо, поддерживаю ваши спортивные стремления!

This is the very first bike in my life which was bought for me specifically! Yay!

I tried riding it yesterday, and I felt very shaky and unstable so far — definitely need some practice to refresh long-forgotten skill. However, I also felt the excitement which originated from anticipation of something wonderfully liberating and blood-warming!

I really hope now that Danya will be able to get his hands on another bike by the weekend, so we’ll have our share of fun on Sunday.

I always wanted a pink girl’s bike. Can I buy it from you?

[...] cycling adventure continues. It became clear that the first bike we bought for Alena needed to be replaced. We wanted something in the similar class of what Brian [...]

I just received a Dirty dancing Bike but it is in very sad shape. I am wondering if it is worth putting the money into. I work at a Bike shop in Galesburg Michigan. I haven’t found much information on the bike or it’s maker but was wondering what your thoughts were about it.

Actually we ended up replacing it with-in a month for several reasons. The size we got it in was just plain wrong for Alena and modern bikes these days offer a lot of benefits over a bike like this.

Here is more information on the route that we ended up going — Sequoia Road Bike.