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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Santa Barbara
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Bikes: SE Quadrangle, '82 Venus NJS, '03 Bianchi Pista, '86 P'sonic Mt Cat, Fat City Yo Eddy '91 + '93, B'cuda A2E, '86 Trek Elance 400, '88 Centurion D.Scott Expert, '88 Fisher Mt Tam (and no longer with me: SE OM Flyer, Umezawa/B-stone/Samson NJS)
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started in Feb 2004 with the purchase of a 2003 Bianchi Pista
1. had seen them around, had a friend in town who had one, and have always liked bikes very much. I wanted to try them out so I test rode one in the parking lot and liked it, rode home the same day. I was debating a cross bike and a fixed gear, but the cross bikes I was checking out were about 3x more expensive and didn't seem so different than my mtn bike in skinny tire mode.
2. Bianchi Pista
3. had just moved back from three years in Tokyo to New Haven, CT (pop, 120,000). now back in Tokyo...
4. I guess I answered this in #1