new bike day..!

 it has been a while since i got a new bike, but this one is special... it's made of the best ingredients i could find, in a quest for the perfect bike for the tour divide. as you know, i've contemplated going for an older TREK chromoly frame, but have not found one, so i went for the aluminium option- an out of the box SuperFly frame. and you know what? it feels exactly like my two other CARBON SuperFly bikes, and thats a mighty good thing in my book.

 i went for a Bontrager RXL aerobars. i've never ever used one of those, and it's kind of scary looking on a svelte mountain bike like this fine example. still cool, though, isn't it?

as you can see, i went for nine speed XO gripshifts, which, in my experience, are the most reliable set of shifters ever produced. oh, and checkout those ERGON GP3 cork grips. they're light and comfy, and have those built in bar-ends... it's like they were made for the tour divide. thank you so much, DAA, for hooking me up with those pretty little things.