The bar tape is on and it's ready for my beanpole son (6'4").



Now I finally understand all those comments about the difference between aluminum and steel frames. By the time I got out the 1/4 mile gravel lane my teeth were loose and my vision blurred. I pressed on and blasted down the 1/2 mile main drag, turned around and zipped back home, once again loosing teeth and vision on the gravel lane. I am sure Deputy Hudson got a call about some maniac speeding around on a bicycle. It's a young buck's bike, for sure.

I figured that's why I should ride my cannondale while I'm young enough to ride it.

I've got a Trek Pilot 2.1 that's very smooth, due to wider rubber.

I think 700x25's or 700x28's, if they fit, would benefit young buck greatly.

A long, long time ago a friend and I rode the length of the Colonial Parkway in Virginia. It was, and still is, all exposed aggregate concrete. I was on my '72 Super Course and I still remember the constant, relentless, unending buzz for miles and miles. Still, the way I remember it was nothing like this Technium. But I was a young buck back then.