What better way to start a new year with the 29er crew than making some additions to the family? Even though I ordered them 8 months apart, both of my shiny bikes for 2009 showed up the same day. To say there was some excitement would be an understatement. After a frantic day of building bikes, swapping components, and tubeless ready fun, I got the bikes mostly up and running.
Since everyone else is, I might as well post shiny bike pictures… The Superfly SS is gorgeous, as expected. It needs a little more love, as I am still waiting on some centerlock rotor adaptors and a rear skewer. I’m going to go for a 5 mm bolt-on rear skewer for hopefully a little more security in the dropouts than a quick release. With the adaptors and a standard quick release, the bike weighed in at 21.00 lb with pedals. Not too shabby, as the new frame dropped 1.5 lb from the Rig. Shiny bontrager carbon bits keep everything nice and light for sure. This is pretty much final spec for it, it’s more than light enough for me. I’m excited to get out on the new RXL wheels as well, they sure look nice enough.
Also shiny is the new geared superfly. It’s quite blingy with all the white bits on it. Should be every bit as great as last years. Now I just need to find a race where I’m actually going to use gears. Hmm, that may be tough, but we’ll see.
