Wednesday, August 1, 2012

MY NEW BIKE!!!!

And before you see any of the pictures, I get to have storytelling time!!
So me and my sis went over to the nearest Wal-Mart to go find a bike I would like. So after nearly getting lost in the store (Directions on sign=useless), I found the bikes and looked around at the different kinds. I wanted one with an actual hand brake, not those where you pedal backwards to brake. (My hand reacts faster than feet) Basically, after looking, my eye keeps drawing to the cranberry red one. It's not girly at all and has one of those things for the back to attach stuff to (Like my bag).
Again, after nearly getting lost (again) trying to find someone that works that could help us with the bike, a guy finally came so I was able to get my new 'child'. Then came the hardest part. Fitting an adult sized bike in a PT Cruiser.....With a very weak person and my sis. Took about 10 minutes and I did most of the work.
Driving back, paused to get blizzards (I love Mint Oreo!!!!!!), and then the second hardest part: Getting it out. I had half of it out before my sneaker started slipping on the bumper and it was either I fall or the bike falls. I chose to yell for sis.
Once it was out I decided to call to show my mom. She didn't take it too well as it was a guys style of bike. I of course didn't care and saw no difference what-so-ever. I won over in the end and took the next half hour looking for my hex key set so I could lower the seat a tad. I bought a hex key set 3-4 years ago so I could fix the handlebars on old bike.
 And here are the pictures!!! First one is my holding bike with one hand (I have learned art of iPod pictures with one hand). The colours are cranberry red, but a tad darker, and cream. It's a Schwinn, with 26' wheels. Seven gears, with handbrakes, and white-walled tires.
 Here you can see the seat, the owners manual (which no one looks through) and the back thing made for attaching stuff to back. As you saw in pic one and two, it has fenders, which hopefully helps with mud when I drive through the one orchard to get to downtown. The seat is red and white instead of the cream on the frame, but enough mud and dirt/dust will change the white to grey-ish.

Seat after it was lowered and the back thing (I'm going to call it that from now on). And the picture underneath is another look at the frame.

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