After months (OK years) of toying with the notion of getting a triathlon specific bike, the opportunity was finally presented to me, and thanks to a shove in the right direction by my wonderful wife - I finally pulled the trigger. After the whole purchasing process (believe me it was a process), and my fitting, I brought it home today. Not only is it MY new hotness, this bike is THE new hotness. Trek's new Speed Concept 7.2. So this bike has been 2 years in the making, and during its development only guys like Chris Lieto (famous triathlete), and Lance Armstrong (if you don't know who he is...stop reading my blog - j/k) were allowed access to it. OK, it's not exactly the bike those dignitaries rode (that would be the 9.9 series), but it's as close as I can get, and I'm excited.
Now new bikes have a kind of sticky grease layer on their transmission which usually works its way off and you replace with a more slick grease to keep it running smoothly. However, usually you don't bring it home in the back of a truck with sandbags that have a little (hidden) leak.
You know the feeling you have after playing sand volleyball? Well that's what my bike had to feel like. You can imagine - sand EVERYWHERE!!! As awful as it was and as mad as I was at myself, after some time with a toothbrush, some WD-40, and the garden hose (yes it is 24 degrees outside), I was able to get it back to its new condition (at far as I can tell).
So there it is - the bike that will take me from T1 to T2 in Philadelphia. I can't wait until I get to ride it outside (Damn you winter!!!), but until then it will live here in our living room on the trainer where its engine will continue to tune up.
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