I stopped by the Rapha shop in the Meatpacking district of Manhattan. For those of you that don't know Rapha, myself included, it is a line of very high end cycling wear. And the Meatpacking district is a high-end fashion district. This shop is the "club" shop, with a coffee/beer/wine bar, videos of races on continuously during the day on big screens and actually nice. The woman that greeted me as I walked in with my very old Trek 7000 that I just upgraded, in particular with the dynamo, was agog about the bike. She thought it was the best city bike she's seen. Rack, fenders, and that light mounted like a motorcycle headlight below the bars, she just loved it. Mind you, in the back of the store were a collection of bikes that Greg Lemond used in the TdF. And hanging were a bunch of Cervelos. My old Trek was still the star. I gave the wheel a spin to show off the light.

I'm also getting one of the Magnic Light ICs for the rear to make it even more cool.

After that store I took the bike up the West Side Bikeway, and it was sloppy with the snow melt runoff.