Glad you enjoyed the thread Cyclomania! Hope you enjoy your new bike.

Nothing new to report on the Denali, other than it could really use a good bath but I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that. So I suppose I'll just keep wiping it down. 744 miles on the bike now.

I'd like to break my previous top speed record, I might try that today if I have time. I reached 39.7 mph last week. I bet I can crack 40 if I tried a bit harder. Fortunately the bike is very stable and I feel comfortable at those speeds.

Of course, these speeds are reached while going downhill. My gears seem to max out at about 35 mph or so, past that point I'm spinning too fast to do anything, gravity does all the work at that point. I could fix this with different gear combos, but for all practical purposes my bike already seems to be geared too much toward top speed capability for the local terrain as it is. The positive aspect of this is that I notice I'm getting a lot stronger and faster on hills, and on group rides I seem to have more top end than the other riders. But at the same time, with my lowest combo being 42-26, every now and then there's a hill that just really takes it out of me.
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