Too funny. I love the suitcase.

That reminds me, I have no saddle bag... eek!

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purple--come on!!! I'm working on replacing her!

Pacer--Tequila isn't as pretty as she used to be, but she's still a respectable looking bike! My son and I are doing TOSRV in a little over a week and I am not ashamed to be seen riding her!

Funniest thing that's ever happened to me... Right before a bike tour I cracked the rear rim on my Terry and I wasn't able to get a replacement. The kids were all trained and ready to go, so my old option was to pull out my Univega. On the tour his guy was hanging with my kids, going on and on about this guy with a sh!t hot bike, how he wanted to get one, etc, etc, etc. At one point I just looked at him and said "It ain't the bike, ya still gotta do the training." So we get to the next rest stop and the guy sees The Bike. Where's the owner of the sh!t hot bike? Oh, he got sagged in. I just looked at the guy and said "It AIN'T the bike!"

I did an off-road tri a few years back and saw a girl riding a bike resembling this, complete with a cage over the back tire like you would deliver newspapers from. By the end of the race, the left side of the cage was smashed in and rubbing on the tire.



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My wife won some triathlons last year and doesn't have a tri bike. Heck, she got her first road bike last May.

Here's a video that shows her passing a fully-tricked-out tri geek on her way into T2 (minute 5:45 in the video):
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Oh yeah...the guys started 5 minutes before the women in that race, too.

So yes, it's not about the bike. It's what you can do on it. That's kind of why I'd prefer not to have a super-dooper bike unless I was really kicking butt.

(Not that I have a problem with an MOP'er who has the cash and wants to buy that extra bit of speed. More power to them.)

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