Echoes.

So one of the things Nick and I have talked about is not doing wedding gifts for each other.
First off, it’s hard enough to support a teenager and secondly, using his money to buy him a gift would just annoy him.  He’d rather it be in savings.

So when he started talking about buying me a road bike, I knew something was up.
Not that it’s for a wedding present – it’s really something he wants me to get into, something he wants me to try.
And I’d like to.
But I also worry about spending a grand on a bike I won’t ride, and so we go back and forth.

It also doesn’t help that a lot of them are ugly and I can’t see myself ever going 100 miles randomly like he tends to do on the weekend.
I don’t drive 100 miles on the weekends in a car – why would I on a bike?

A friend or two have joked about him buying me a gift he’d love to receive, but he just got a new road bike.
This one is MINE.

So on and on… me not thinking much of it, him calling me randomly with suggestions – I don’t know much about the bikes, only that I’m looking at entry level road bikes and low cost components… until I ran across THIS beauty:

Yum.

Now I’m much more motivated to look for bikes.  It’s gorgeous.
Now I just have to hope that it’s actually comfortable as opposed to sexy and hope that I’m not too big to fit on a woman’s bike.

You don’t change the Vera Wang to fit your body, you change your body to fit Vera Wang.