Yep - another new toy!

Meet my new bike!!! My last bike is 15 years old and was literally ridden to death. It creaks when you get on (no weight cracks, you brothers, you!) and squeaks when you pedal. Oiling doesn't help much. It's just OLD. And uncomfortable.

Enter my new Schwinn, built for WOMEN! What? Built for women? What does THAT mean?

Ah. Well, on my last bike (unisex version), it always seemed like I was sitting on my hands and there wasn't enough weight on my, ahem, posterior. My hands would actually fall asleep while I was riding! This bike has the stem and handle bars closer to the seat, so that when you sit on the bike, you actually SIT on the bike. And to that end...

It has a nice, wide, padded seat. For my nice, wide, padded seat. Unlike the old bike, which has had several different seats, but all of them were hard and narrow - most unlike my own seat.

I am definitely looking forward to grabbing ZBoy and heading for the bike trail next week and giving it a REAL workout. Both the bike and my seat.