I borrowed a Softride bike from a dealer. It's their mid priced Softride Qualifier. It was cool of the dealer to let me demo it for several days. It definitely lives up to it's name. The bike provides a significant improvement in ride quality over my traditional steel bike. It's definitely a nice upgrade from my bike. It also handles a lot better. But I couldn't really notice the supposed aerodynamic efficiencies provided by the beam bike. After this weekend I have to make a decision quickly because Wildflower is only a month away. I expect it'd take a week to get the bike built and then I'll only have 2-3 weeks to ride my bike before I have to race. That's cutting it pretty close. The current bikes being considered are a Cervelo P2k like Kojo's, a Felt S-22, and now the Softride Qualifier.


The good news about being unemployed is that it looks like I'll actually get a refund this year.

My wireless network is pissing me off. It's giving me a lot of disconnects. My software shows that there are 3 Wi-Fi networks in range of my PC including mine. I really can't believe that there are 3. 2 maybe, but most of my neighbors are a bit far away for my machine to detect another wireless AP.