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August 30, 2008 | Filed under: un-vlogged, Uncategorized

Originally submitted at Trek

7200 WSD

My new sweet, sweet ride!

By missbhavens from The Beautiful (but darn hilly) Catskills on 8/30/2008

Pros: Reasonably lightweight, SMOOTH, Agile, Handsome, Feels sturdy

Cons: Tricky shifting, Squeaky Breaks

Best Uses: Pavement, Path, Commuting

Describe Yourself: Casual/ Recreational

After my beloved (insert popular 7-speed cruiser-type bike company name here) met an untimely midsummer death by flying off the back of my fiancees truck (he was not my fiancee for the remainder of that weekend, but he’s since been forgiven) I was in need of some new wheels.

Up until I started shopping I would have categorized myself as the most casual of cyclists. I bike into town to get butter and eggs and cherry Slush Puppies. That is all. I wanted more, but I’m in pretty hilly terrain, and I assumed that it was my legs and not my bike that was holding me back from seeing more of the scenery. Not so.

What I needed was a far more powerful bike with oodles of speeds on it. This was WAY more bike than I was used to! I was chugging up hills I wouldn’t have dreamed of tackling with my old bike, and I was FLYING downhill so fast I was both exhilarated and a wee nervous.

I do find that shifting the gears on the left (1 2 3)can be clunky. Takes a little wiggling to make sure you’re in the gear you’re after. A friend mentioned that they need to “break in” a little, so I’m hoping this is true. The right gears (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) however, are smooth like Cool Whip and have given me no troubles yet. The only other issue is that at high speeds the breaks squeak quite a bit.

This series of bikes caught my eye because of the step-in frame (I don’t care if people think it’s sissy, it’s EASIER!) and because I have a weak, twitchy lower back. I simply cannot hunch over a bike for long and hope to enjoy myself. I sat up straight on my old bike and I was looking for the same in a replacement.

I’m 5′9″ with long appendages and I actually *can’t* quite sit up straight on the largest sized 7200WSD, but I’m darn close and plan on having the handlebars adjusted upwards a bit to correct this, but it hasn’t stopped me from riding whenever I get the chance.

This bike is smooth, comfortable, fast, nimble, easy to ride and it’s an eye-catcher. Love that eggplant color! It handles well on pavement and dirt paths (avoid deep gravel, though, or you’ll skid out!) and hops onto curbs and over smaller tree roots no problem. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone with lower back problems who misses cycling, anyone who wants a hot-looking bike, anyone with a commute who wants to save on gas, and anyone who wants a comfortable ride while enjoying the scenery!

I’m crazy about my new bike!

(legalese)

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May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized

The Pizza of Your (wildly hung over) Dreams, originally uploaded by missbhavens.

Behold the wonderous Philly Cheesesteak Pizza from Hogan’s Almost Famous Pizza! Layer for layer: crust, mozz, that delightful paper-thin Steak-Umm stuff that Brian calls “scrambled meat”, golden sauteed onions, yello cheez. Insane. The thing weighs like ten pounds.

Polished this puppy off this morning. A slice for lunch yesterday, two for dinner. Breakfast.

Not sure when I can allow such delicious nonsense to happen again. I just bought two new pairs of jeans and I don’t plan on buying any more this year!

12:08 pm | 8 Comments

January 13, 2008 | Filed under: un-vlogged, Uncategorized

Oops..did I say that out loud? Well, there haven’t been any videos because I can’t upload anything larger than a lo-res photo the way my internet connection has been behaving these past few weeks. I called TWC/RR on 12/19 to report the problem and was told “It’s not just you. We’re working on it.” Then the problem got worse. Loading web pages feels like I’m back in 1994 with my Performa 550, America Online and my 2400 baud modem dialing the one access number at 6pm on a Friday night. My point here is that the sucker is slow.

So I call back yesterday and I’m told “Oh, no, it IS just you! We’ll send someone out. On January 26th.”

“Fine. So where’s my credit? Surely I’ll be issued some kind of credit for this $60/mo service that’s working at 15% capacity, right?”

“Yes, of course”, she says, but they’ll only issue me a credit from the time the service call was requested. That is to say NOT from 12/19 when I made the initial complaint was was told I didn’t NEED a service call because it WASN’T just me, but rather from 1/12 when they decided to send someone out to fix it. Nice.

Four transfers later, some Tier-Three Customer Service Rep in the Please Don’t Cancel Your Cable Dep’t assured me that I’ll receive some kind of apology-credit from 12/19. We’ll see if they actually do it.

In the meanwhile, I’m off to the fair exotic city of Constantinople for two weeks! My first real vacation in a lonnnngggg time. And although I’ve been instructed my many to leave the laptop at home, I can’t. The choice was either buy more storage for my camera or drag the computer with me so I have a place to dump the media.

Also, there’s wi-fi in the hotel lobby.

So there you go.

And here *I* go!

8:01 am | 1 Comment