Check it out. Click on the picture to the left and see my new bike, oh and Mindy’s too! For the last year I had been planning on buying a bike sometime. I’d talked with Todd Liles about what I should get, researched online, watched videos, and in general just watched other people and their bikes. I knew nothing about buying myself a good bike, except for how much I was looking to spend. All throughout the last year of school at AU I rode from Fair to classes on my longboard. A very fun option, but I also wanted the option to bike it! Usually it’s much safer and faster. Plus with buying a bike I wanted to be able to stay somewhat fit over the summer, and beyond. There isn’t a lot of ultimate happening around here, nor people to run with that could help keep me exercising. Speaking of running, it’s not really my favorite thing to do. While it kept me in somewhat shape, it was no fun for me. I’d be very reluctant to run when other guys love doing it.
So then what, I was left with two choices long boarding and biking. I figured it would be hard to longboard this summer given the terrain around my hometown. There are some nice hills and getting off the road there are some sweet bike trails. No longboard could easily handle these, so I was off to the local bike shop. Route 66 Bicycles seems to be a shop run by two young guys who are very knowledgeable about any kind of bike, and really helped seal the deal for me on what I was looking for and what bike in my price range fit the bill. I owe them many thanks for giving me brochures and answering all of my emails full of questions.
To my surprise along the way my girlfriend Mindy decided she’d join in and get a bike too! I was at first a little surprised, I didn’t know she wanted to start riding too?! I love it though, now that I have someone to ride with it’s made it 10x as fun!
My bike is a 2010 Trek 7.1FX in a white duotone silver sparkle, and Mindy went with a Trek 3500 in a paint color called Onyx. Mine was already built for the road, but Mindy’s wasn’t quite ready. Her bike is a hardtail mountain bike originally but a quick swap out of tires and a different seat and she was ready to cruise the roads with me. We bought our bikes on a nice rainy Monday and were confined to riding circles in her garage for that day, but yesterday the sun was out and we finally got to go ride. We did 6.2 miles on our first ride, even after Mindy almost passed out! It was a lot of fun and I’m definitely looking forward to more biking! Is anyone else out there a fan of biking?
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I would love to get a new bike as well but they are pricey..it's awesome you guys got new ones though!!
Yeah they are awesome, and those are on the low end of their bikes! They have a great warranty on the bikes though, lifetime frame warranty and everything else is 5 years.
I would love to get a new bike as well but they are pricey..it's awesome you guys got new ones though!!
Yeah they are awesome, and those are on the low end of their bikes! They have a great warranty on the bikes though, lifetime frame warranty and everything else is 5 years.