Originally Posted by Eclectus

Who cares, if it's warrantied. There is nothing wrong with a red color. It's actually a beautiful color. I saw this aweful demo green Specialized MTB. It was totally ugly. Red is a nice color. You don't think people think and ask, "What do you have there?" OP got an incredible deal, if it is warranted. I have a black Cervelo RS-SRAM Red, but if I saw OP's Roubaix Expert-Ultegra, I'd say, "Wow, that's a beauty bike."

I saw a girl with a Trek 2.1. Really nice alu-frame / 105 bike. She was riding on the sidewalk. I gave her dinottelighting.com web address. I told her my wife used go go sidewalk, until I gave her a Dinotte 400R, on strobe flash, and suddenly, "Wow drivers can see me, and they don't ride on my a**s.

This lady I met needs to go on the road, cuz she wants to race train, even though she is 50 yr old masters-race entrant, and not be scared by cars.

Nobody riding a bike deserves to be scared by cars, no matter how fast you are going.

My best friend in HS was crushed by a car in Cali. To weeks at Stanford ICU. It's not happening to me, in Kansas even though there is no bike-riding consciousness whatsoever. I'm not saying, "I'm not saying, I have I have A LEGAL RIGHT TO THE ROAD," I'm saying, "Wake up you text messagers, I don't want to sue you, or my next of kind to sue you, I just want you to see me, and give me space."

Sometimes adolescent and older pick/up drivers hassle me. Not that often. Mostly people appreciate, "I saw you waay ahead." They tell me, they give me thumbs up they stop at intersections and say, "I saw you from a halfi mile behind, nice light." I just want to signal them, "I'm ahead of you, leave me alone, there is room for both of us."

Some of you riders just don't have that much experience to understand. I was riding in LA in the 60s. But there weren't so many teenage drivers or old people. Zero text messagers. Today, you have to alert inexperienced, reflex-challenged drivers. The Dinotte 400R is an excellent "Wake up" device. It could be better, like a xenon-tube super flasher. But it's really good. I don't get scared. My wife, she's a girl, she doesn't get scared.