I picked up my new bike tonight. They did a fitting and decided they needed to go with a shorter stem, so they put on a lower quality 70 mm stem they had in stock while they order one, replacing the 90 mm that came with the bike. They are going this time with a 70 mm stem vs. the 80 mm I have on my existing bike, maybe my arms are getting shorter as I age. The crank length is 170mm which is probably more appropriate for my height than the 175mm I have been using. I think when I bought my last bike they did a switch on the crank arm to accomodate another customer and I was too new to cycling to know any difference.

I couldn’t get home to weight by bike and found it is on the lighter side, coming in a tad over 15 lbs, but less than 15.5 lbs, without the pedals. Of course after that I started to add water bottle cages, my speed sensor and mount and my bag with spare tubes, tire tool and pump. I am therefore not going to weigh it further
I was able to get it all ready and plan to ride it tomorrow, even though we are climbing up Quimby and I would normally take my older bike, which has a triple crankshaft, up that steep of a hill. I guess I will have to grind it out and hope that my body is also on the lighter side. I shouldn’t have had Mexican food for dinner.

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