How I Spent My Friday Night, by Eddie Suarez

The final pieces for my bike arrived today. I was so excited to see the UPS truck pull up to our building because I knew the booty it held inside. On Wednesday, I had already spent $300 on a set of Sun Rhyno LT rims, XT hubs, DT Swiss spokes, and an XT rear cassette. That UPS truck pulling up to our building held my Panaracer Fire XC Pro tires and a new set of XTR brake pads. I could hardly wait to rush home to put her together. Too bad I still had another 4 hours of work.

And in case you didn't catch that. Yes. My bike is female. I spend way too much money and way too much time with her to consider it a male. If it were male, people would start to wonder about my sexual orientation. So, my bike is female.

I had to run some errands and even pay the gym a visit before making it home. I rushed from place to place, running in and running out - not wasting any time because I knew where I really wanted to be tonight.

It was just after 8 when I made it home. I will not boar (or is it bore?, Melissa where are you when I need you!!) with any of the details of the assembly. I will just say that I assembled the bike. And damnit, it looks beautiful. I just want to stare at it. Gaze lovingly at it. Definitely a thing of beauty. I cannot wait until tomorrow to ride. One thing I do wish is that I had a chick to ride with. But it seems every girl I have met lately does not know how to ride bike. I am getting off topic here, that will need to be an entry for another day. Tonight, I had a date with my 2001 Specialized Stumpjumper XC Comp - and it went wonderfully well. Maybe tomorrow I will take a picture before it gets all muddy.