I can only wish that was my bike. As soon as I hit the lottery, though, one of those in blue. Maybe a blue/purple/gloss carbon fade.

Sweet severance package!

I would love to have one of them as well, they are absolutely beautiful. A little out of my price range though.

Good bosses are hard to come by unfortunately. However, good employees aren't exactly a dime a dozen any more either.

What do you expect? Every popular forum needs it's 'trollheim' thread as a pressure-release valve for the obsessed. You don't want any of us going 'postal' do you?

Probably a Garmin 60CSx. Funny... FedEx came today and delivered the mount and the wife and I had a misunderstanding. The conversation went something like this

"What's that?"
"A bike mount for a GPS"
"Ohhh man that's what I was going to get you for your birthday"

Turns out she meant a Garmin Edge 500 and that she thought that's what came today.

Razor, while I agree that it's your boss's responsibility to keep track of the hours so he'll know how much to pay you, if you didn't work 30 and you know it, then taking pay for 30 is not right.

Dude, you could do better than that. I'm guessing MSRP was $400 if it was the top end Maverick, many were $299 new. Not that nice a bike.

Who asked?

Hard to tell from the tiny pic, but if that's the lowend Maverick, here's NOS for $199
https://www.rscycle.com/2008-Iron-Hor...-Cross-Country

Ahh, no disc there. That red one's probably mid-range.

I'm still scared. The Maverick 3.0 has Promax brakes. My Trek 4000 has Promax Vees - chintzy!

I think you're better off running midrange V-Brakes than low-end disc. And those forks, yuck. Rigid forks are usually better than cheep sproing.

How about this?

On 16 February I mused about seagulls I saw while out riding.

Today TV News did a piece on said birds, with video shot along the road I rode.

Velo Vol is nine days ahead of the news!

Nice work scooping the TV news on the BF! Time to fire up the VV Bird Blog!

Here, the gulls fly in from the coast when a bad storm rolls in. I'm guessing they just fly upriver. They hang out for a day then think "this sucks" and fly back out to the coast. I saw lots yesterday but none today. Oh, and riding the roadbike on dry pavement after a couple MTB rides in snow is almost TOO FAST! I was skeered.

Freaking 1.5" of snow tonight and of course they salted the crap out of the roads in time for my ride tomorrow. It FINALLY rained today washing all the old salt off the roads and melting the last of the snow. GD.

Given that I can only identify about five species of bird, that would be a pretty boring blog. Possible entries:

--Saw three robins on the lawn

--Blue jay scolding angrily

--Hundreds of black birds milling about the pasture

--Cleaned poo off the car.

I like it when mocking birds sound like car alarms and police sirens.

You are, aren't you?

Sweet.

You're right--it was chilly but only required moderate HTFUness.

Still, a balaclava and warmer gloves would have been nice.

You seem to have a consistent pace. Very good.

You're doing it wrong.

It just makes you appreciate the heat more.