OK,
what was the first ever upgrade on your bike back in the day? What was the catalyst that has whether you planned to or not, probably led you to this point here - talking about bicyles all day with a virtual family decades later?
For me it was 1987 and a set of Deore XT beartrap pedals. The matt black parallelogram ones (not the later slimmer XT comps or the even later cut aways (both of which I preferred later on).
I walked past F.W Evans (now evans cycles) in Kingston (UK) seeing them in the window, after school every day for months while saving up for those. They were £44.95 - a fortune for a 15yr old of the day. They were so pointless an upgrade on my Muddy Fox Courier, but I showed them off to anyone that would listen.
There was definately something in being able to attach them myself (wasn't very mechanically minded) but i suppose the lure was that lovely svelt black box and small DeoreXT logo with that lovely triple shimano colour bar under it. Badge engineering ...? I was Hooked.
It made an impression, and I realise now it started something that is in flow as we speak. It was that moment, that decision. And I'm glad I took it. Look where I am now - broke, but with an addiction I love.
what was the first ever upgrade on your bike back in the day? What was the catalyst that has whether you planned to or not, probably led you to this point here - talking about bicyles all day with a virtual family decades later?
For me it was 1987 and a set of Deore XT beartrap pedals. The matt black parallelogram ones (not the later slimmer XT comps or the even later cut aways (both of which I preferred later on).
I walked past F.W Evans (now evans cycles) in Kingston (UK) seeing them in the window, after school every day for months while saving up for those. They were £44.95 - a fortune for a 15yr old of the day. They were so pointless an upgrade on my Muddy Fox Courier, but I showed them off to anyone that would listen.
There was definately something in being able to attach them myself (wasn't very mechanically minded) but i suppose the lure was that lovely svelt black box and small DeoreXT logo with that lovely triple shimano colour bar under it. Badge engineering ...? I was Hooked.
It made an impression, and I realise now it started something that is in flow as we speak. It was that moment, that decision. And I'm glad I took it. Look where I am now - broke, but with an addiction I love.