New bikes! :-)

It had been something we were thinking about for the future, but for a number of reasons we decided to go ahead and both buy road bikes now:
1) taking 2 months off work in 2005 meant I paid too much ahead of time in income tax so I got a nice refund recently,
2) kept thinking we'd need more savings for a "maternity leave" but so far it doesn't look like that's happening any time soon,
3) Ed's thinking about riding to work this summer (save money on gas plus better for overall health and fitness),
4) I'm thinking of doing more triathlons this year and tired of everyone blowing by me on their light road bikes compared to my heavy mountain bike,
5) with road bikes that means we can actually put the stubby mountain bike tires back on the MTB's (instead of the slick tires we've been using) and ride off-road with the MTB's again...
(is that enough reasons?)

Ed was nice enough to wait until my bike came in so we could pick them up together, which we did today. Apparently, it's a really good time for the bike industry these days and Trek is behind in shipments - usually it only takes a few days to order one apparently but mine took two weeks...

Unfortunately, the weather hasn't co-operated so we haven't had a chance yet to ride outside (which would involve initially just going up and down the nearby minimal-traffic cul-de-sac in order to get used to clipless pedals), but hopefully tomorrow there will be some breaks from the rain. (Actually, by tomorrow I'll likely be so eager to try it that I'll go out rain or shine).

Some pics for your enjoyment - Ed's is the dark grey Trek 2100, and mine is the white Trek Pilot 2.1 .