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After months of deliberating we've finally fixed Mrs S up with some wheels. It's a Specialized Dolce Elite. It's a 2005 bike but is basically brand new having done only a handful of miles on a turbo trainer with it's previous owner.

I just need to make sure she rides it now. We'll leave the pictured pedals on for the time being as Mrs S has never used any form of clipped pedals, (and may never tbh).

Just spent an hour this morning checking everything, tweaked the gears, set the brakes, pumped the tyres up, had to cut a smidgen off the seat post too, (no I'm not married to Janette Krankie, but Mrs S could be her stunt double, in height at least!).

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Baggy

Cake connoisseur
Very nice indeed!
 
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smokeysmoo

smokeysmoo

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Time for a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Bikes? :whistle:

'ain't that the truth. My bikes don't get the use they should, (which multiple bike owners does?), but the neglect, (in terms of use) this bike has experienced is truly criminal.

VERY Nice (If tiny :smile:)

Tiny hardly covers it Bud. It looks like one of my bikes has done a poo :tongue: The front mech is positioned between the bottle cage bosses as the seat tube is so short! I even had to shorten the seat post, it wouldn't go any lower because it was hitting the top bottle cage bolt. It's like working on a scale model :whistle:

Thanks for the nice comments guys, it will all help to motivate Mrs S. She rode it yesterday after I'd set it up, only a round the block shakedown, but even that could be intimidating for someone who's not ridden a bike in years and who's basically never ridden a road bike. She did real well and hopefully it's the start of bigger things, (not frame wise obviously :tongue:).

We just need to get little Miss S off her stabilizers now :biggrin:
 
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