thanks. i tend to agree.

she's 15 years old and just an old cro-mo mid-level '90s mountain bike (nothing all that special in the grand scheme of things), but for some reason i'm obsessed about keeping her looking good as she ages. my much newer titanium road bike is the one i should be obsessing over, but the fact is that i obsess over all 3 of my bikes. it's just not in the cards for me to ride a crappy-looking beater bike because if i ever got my hands on one, i'd immediately start tinkering with it to bring out its inner bike beauty. i just can't let a bike to be all run-down and ugly.