In an odd twist of fate my mother recently got an 06 Ruby from her husband for Christmas. She just sent me a photo of her and her new bike. Apparently she went out on it for the first time today and had a fall with the clipless pedals. She is fine and didn't say anything about the bike so I assume it is also fine, apparently it was 34° today in Austin. FWIW she turns 70 at the end of April...go MOM.
First let me say that your mom ROCKS! Yeah it was in the high 30's when I took the kids to school this morning, but I just did some hill repeats on my lunch hour and it's pretty stunning out right now. Mid 50's not a cloud in a picture perfect blue sky. Last I'm not a big fan of Specialized bikes in general, but your bike Grasshopper is pretty sweet lookin'