So I picked up and was fitted for my '08 Specialized Elite last night. This is my first real road bike, after putting in 2 or 3 thousand miles on a Trek 7.3 FX I was ready to move onto something that would at least let me keep pace with the big guys.


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The fitting went pretty well, except that he had to replace my carbon seat post with an aluminum one because there were no zero-offset carbon posts available from Specialized and my tiny, tyrranosaurus rex arms and strangely tiny legs (where is all my height? That's a serious question. I'm 5'10.5" with a 30-31ish inseam. Anyway, while I was bummed about not having a carbon seatpost at least until mid-february when Specialized will have one in, I know that having a proper fit and a bike I'll actually ride makes more sense. He has had to adjust the seat as far forward as possible even with the Thomson aluminum seatpost (which he says is a nice seatpost - I hadn't done the research.)

Other than my suicide ride home last night (dark, wet roads, my first time on full-slicks, only my CygoDualcross 300 light to get me home) I haven't been able to ride it outdoors yet. I put in an hour of hard riding on it on my trainer this morning and the fit feels great; my lower back feels good and my knees are sore, but in a good-burn sort of way. I can tell this bike is going to work some muscles differently than my more relaxed, non-roadbike I had been riding.

All in all, I am very excited. I feel like this bike will really push me. Also, it's so fast =P *drool* The image attached is exactly the bike I have, except for the aforementioned seatpost.