Goldie...*shakes head*...you must have some kind of psychic connection with me. This isn't the first time you absolutely nailed how I felt, emotionally, about an issue (I specifically remember an entry I made about the custody thing, and you said you felt sick to your stomach reading about it...and that's precisely how I felt when I was writing about it!).
I WAS in tears yesterday, I was so disappointed. I'd wanted that bike for SO long and it was all wrong. Plus, when I tried to explain what was wrong with it, everyone just looked at me like I was nuts and wondered what the heck I was talking about. I'm pretty sure my husband thought I'd gone completely crackers.
Anyway, toda I went to a ~good~ bike dealership and talked to a person (who used to know my Dad, who was the most serious bicyclist EVER) that knew what was what. Turns out that model of the Trek hybrid 7000 series that *I* was steered towards is all wrong for serious road trips because it's based on a "cruiser" design. The fork is way forward, so your balance is off center (especially when you turn) and the seat is ~right~ above the pedals...not a good thing when combined with an upright posture because you only push ~down~ with your feet, instead of down and forward, which uses more muscle groups. Explains why my power was so low.
So, long story short; I'm not nuts! The physics behind that model are way off. I ordered a new bike, one that's much more suited to my purposes. It'll be here in a few days, and I'll babble incessantly about it then. :-)
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Date: 2006-05-17 07:00 pm (UTC)I WAS in tears yesterday, I was so disappointed. I'd wanted that bike for SO long and it was all wrong. Plus, when I tried to explain what was wrong with it, everyone just looked at me like I was nuts and wondered what the heck I was talking about. I'm pretty sure my husband thought I'd gone completely crackers.
Anyway, toda I went to a ~good~ bike dealership and talked to a person (who used to know my Dad, who was the most serious bicyclist EVER) that knew what was what. Turns out that model of the Trek hybrid 7000 series that *I* was steered towards is all wrong for serious road trips because it's based on a "cruiser" design. The fork is way forward, so your balance is off center (especially when you turn) and the seat is ~right~ above the pedals...not a good thing when combined with an upright posture because you only push ~down~ with your feet, instead of down and forward, which uses more muscle groups. Explains why my power was so low.
So, long story short; I'm not nuts! The physics behind that model are way off. I ordered a new bike, one that's much more suited to my purposes. It'll be here in a few days, and I'll babble incessantly about it then. :-)