I'll do anything to try and get a free bike

Especially one that I've priced recently. . .

Ok, I'm starting this blog outside of my normal one for one purpose, and one purpose only. Globe bikes by Specialized is putting on a free bike for blog ordeal, and me I am one to sell out like a motherfucker.

Especially for a good product.

Backstory then my friends!

I commute a deal back and forth to work. A mere meager ride of 3-5 miles according to route in the loveliness, and mugginess, and pure hell that is Columbia SC. Believe it or not, my oversized, chain smoking, heavy drinking self is in half decent shaped for having a moderate amount of riding. I take occasional pleasure rides (usually to the bars, yeah you can get a DUI on a bike, but I tend to think they'd have leniency on someone not too toasted who is taking a clusterhell of extra back roads in order to stay out of traffic), and sometimes my wife wants to ride with me.

One problem though, Columbia is. . . well a tad hilly. She also only has a single bike, which is an old huffy single speed beach cruiser. Nothing wrong with it, fine around our neighborhood, but not really good when it's downhill halfway, and uphill the rest of the damn way on your ride to and from downtown. She just can't keep up, and after 30 minutes would be so miserable you can gaurantee I won't be seeing the good side of her bed for a month or so. I guess I'm just lucky I already sleep on the couch!

She's been wanting to go on rides more often, but I keep telling her her bike just isn't made for it and she is welcome to ride my beater frame (old diamondback mountain bike with some decent road fairing tires on it), which she takes to me calling her a lard ass.

First things first, my wife, ain't no lardass, second of all it is just pure mechanics of the bicycles, around the neighborhood fine, but I normally want to ride a bit farther, and up quite a few hills.

Second things second,

I decided to make ammends and say I'd buy her a bike, even in this effed the hell up economy. So we carted down last Saturday to the LBS I usually hit, partially to talk about bringing my main commuting rig in cause it has a horrible click(a Specialized Crosstrail), and to let her look around, find a bike that fit her, and she enjoyed a tad. Main things were it needed gears, and from what's she's used to be a nice hybrid commuter bike.

So the friendly fellows of CycleCenter in 5 points showed her a globe frame. It appeared to be a vienna (I didn't ask, I was being pissy about my bottom bracket), had gears, was comfy, and since she wouldn't be riding it except weekends, I could also throw down on it during the week since it was substantially cheaper than my main rig, and she refused the pastel colors and wanted to go strait for the black. I agreed with her, and told her it might be a month till I could afford it, but it'd all be hunky dorey in the end.

So there it is, damnit give me a free bike, I buy enough of your products already, am about to buy another one, and if I could get it for free, I can get my tankless water heater quicker. My wife could ride it, she'd no longer assume I was calling her fat, I'd be out of the doghouse, and I could pimp it around town on the weekdays and abuse the living crap out of it and give it solid reviews. I'll ride it to work, ride it home, let my friends ride it, let my friend Doog employee his insane stuntman like skills to ride it a 1/10 mile down the road on a wheelie, and then see if he can do it downhill on the front tire, it'll help out my LBS when I take it in to get certain things adjusted, and honestly, it'd just be a cool move that I'm willing to write for.

Later.