Originally Posted by rezzkatt

I got into cycling about a year and a half ago when I bought my first bike, a hybrid. After riding the hell out it, I've decided to go for a road bike. The problem however, was that my girlfriend of 5 years, and with whom I live with, absolutely forbid me to buy another bike until she got a ring. I did and said everything I could think of to convince her I needed a new rig. She wasn't having it. I considered keeping it at a friends house, as well as a number of other clandestine operations. In the end, I gave in. On Tuesday I put down a deposit on a sexy machine. I'm now a single guy, living with two cats, and sometime next week, this:
http://www.bianchiusa.com/bikes/road...o/impulso-105/

(I'll post pics when I pick her up)