The wheel

In the beginning G-D created mankind.. Mankind was happy but had to walk everywhere and it was a pretty big everywhere so he invented the wheel. Now the wheel served mankind and was happy to serve but was bored as heck just going to work, to the farm and every Saturday night to the big bonfire in town.
So wheel invented the Tour de France to have a little fun and get a few of those lightweight 'rims' under it's frame...hey you make good time that way. Wheel and man were once again happy together and now felt fulfilled that they could beat themselves up for three weeks and love it!
My first bike was a 27lb all steel monster with crappy derailleurs and heavy rims. I loved cruising down from our place in the hills to downtown Sausalito where we lived and worked our first year of marriage.After work I took the big beast of a bike and tried to conquer the hill that leads out from our village by the bay up to the Golden Gate bridge. Once that was accomplished it was to the other side of the Golden Gate and so on until I rode into 'the city' every day.    My first mod to the beast was to replace those crummy derailleurs with decent ones improving the sloppy gear shifts to nice tight positive ones. Next I popped for lighter rims which saved 2lbs per wheel, I was cooking now. At this point one of my bike buddies pointed out that you can dress up a pig but it's still a pig. Good advice since I had $150 invested into a used bike I paid $45 for.

Point being it was a good first bike and the weight of it actually made me work very hard to earn my spurs. In the end as I listened to the tails of near god like men and there accomplishments such as Eddy Merkx, Bernard Hinault and of course new comer Greg Lemond, I realized that a new bike would be in order... now where was that campy catalog?

Waking weight: 208lbs Training hrs : rest day Caloric intake: green shake for breakfast, rb sand and grapes @10:30am , 3 no sugar coconut bars @1pm, apple and grapes @2.30 pm and dinner @ 7pm 2200 cals today