New Bike!!

For a while now, I've been thinking about buying a new road bike.  I have been wanting something a bit lighter, and something that fits me better because my current bike is a bit too small for me.  My plan was to save up money over this summer, and then buy a new bike in August or September so that I would still have a few months to train on it for the El Tour de Tucson (I've already registered for the 109-mile race, in November).

Two days ago, Josh brings home a big box and says that he won't be able to hide what's in the box, so I'm going to have to just see my birthday present super early.  He opens the box and pulls out this:

Eeeee!  He found a fantastic deal on this bike frame online and decided that he couldn't pass it up, so he bought it for me.  It's fully carbon fiber, and weighs only three pounds!  Of course, this is only the frame, so we're going to have to buy all the components and parts to complete it over the next month or so... but that should be pretty fun, and definitely educational for me as I know very little about the mechanical side of bicycles.  Plus, I can pick my own parts and decide how the bike looks once it's all put together.  (Expect green handlebar tape at the very least.)  Now I've really got to get serious about riding my bike as much as possible.  ;)

Hopefully by the time my triathlon in July comes around, the new bike will be up and running!  So exciting!!!  (Did I mention how awesome my boyfriend is?  He's pretty awesome.)

Of course, this also now means that between the two of us, we have 5 bikes in the house: Josh's mountain bike and road bike, my old vintage commuter bike, my current road bike, and my new fancy bike.  Tucson is too nice of a town for biking to not be commuting via bicycle, but I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable commuting anywhere on the new nice bike, so I'll need to keep a separate commuter bike no matter what.  It makes me a sad because we put a bit of work into it, but I'll probably end up selling my old commuter bike and keep my current road bike as my ride-around-town bike.  And then we'll be down to only 4 bicycles in the house!