Thanks for the taco socks! They were a pretty awesome “welcome back” gift after my long trip out west.
Also, apparently I am a fan of Giro. I’m so excited about my new shoes! I think they’ll be awesome for being on and off of the bike, and they look so snazzy, too! You can’t even tell that they are clip-ins.
http://www.giro.com/us_en/products/women/shoes/dirt/petra.html
🙂
Bike Setups:
This is where I met that funny dog, Tuna, who is part beagle and part lab.
It was fun biking to your old high school and seeing where you played football every day, El Capitan.
Since you left early this morning for the concert, I took that extra time to mess around with getting the racks set up on your bike. As you can see, your tires are very reflective. Overall, I think the racks fit your bike pretty well. I was worried to try to rotate the front one forwards much more, as it might dig into the paint on your fork a little, but I meant to look into that more and never got back to it (in the picture you can see the front rack isn’t quite level). At some point, I need to cut off the extra material on the extenders, but otherwise your bike is pretty much ready for panniers 🙂
I wasn’t planning to put the racks on mine, since I’ll be taking it back to PA this week for road riding but I’m glad I did because I realized there’s not enough space between the skewer and the braze on in front of the drop out to attach the Blackburn Outpost front rack… so I’m going to go for plan B and get an extra long skewer and mount it that way. After noticing this, I also checked the fenders I bought and those didn’t fit either. Anyhow, after checking the racks, I took them back off and hopefully next weekend I’ll have everything I need to get it set up for a trip the weekend of 8/22-8/24 :-).