I would love to have a swoopy doopy sexy bike, but my REI purchase and I have grown rather close..... and it seems only to get more comfortable beneath me. It's steel, it's heavy duty, has wider tires with heavy innertubes, and a lugguge rack on the back. Between the ugly matt green and all the stuff hanging off it, it's not svelte nor sexy.

So my dream will be progressive. I plan someday to buy some quality wheels not as heavy nor as wide as my current wheels, and put some high psi tires on 'em. The difference between the rolling resistance of my innertubes with 63 psi, and freshly pumped up to their max' of 75 psi is staggering! Yep, wheels, tubes, and fast tires....

BUT if indeed I keep this new hobby up, and can return to riding as much as I was before this diet I'm on (no more than 45 minutes every other day on the bike....), AND if I reduce my once 255 lb's to under 160 lb's..... there is a bike shop that makes custom frames/bicycles; and THAT'S what this body with it's 24" inseam 5' 2"ness needs.

HERE HERE, a new bicycle should be in the wings of all who accomplish what they set out to complete!