I figured to congratulate my weekend ride I'd pick up some goodies. I've wanted a tri bike for a while, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle riding in that position. My back might completely give out, or maybe I just won't like it.

I calculated that if I could move my seat forward 30mm it would approximate the seat post angle of a tri bike. If I just added some aero bars to that, I'd be most of the way there. The seat was easy to do, I just flipped the seat post around. I lost the ability to move the front of the seat down, so it's definitely not ideal. But it works.

I made a trip to my local Cyclepath, where I picked up the Golden Horseshoe cycling map, a presta to schrader adapter, brake pads, tubes and some chain lube. Believe it or not I've never lubed my chain. They didn't have any aero bars in stock. I went to D'Ornella's (because of the convenience factor again), and they actually had a pretty good selection.

This is the last time I'm going to say anything about this shop, but I figured out exactly what's wrong with it to me. It seems like if you're not one of their buddies they really don't give a shit. I was there listening to one of the guys helping this woman. She seemed to have a pretty expensive bike, and sounds like she's dealt with them before.

The guy working there was completely sucking her dick. I wasn't listening too closely at this point, but she wasn't really saying all that much. Something about trying another bike out. This guy was totally all over her story. He was fitting her on the bike (which I never even got when I bought my bike there), and just having a totally casual time. It just didn't seem right. He was talking to her about this customer who had an OCR. This caught my attention because that's what I was buying for. He said that the customer kept buying all these speed parts for it, and he didn't understand what he was doing, because it's just an OCR. Why would you buy Zipp wheels for it and all this other stuff.

I can understand what he was saying, but it's pretty rude to talk shit about your customers to others. Especially when someone else can hear them. And especially when they've got an OCR and are buying parts for it! Unreal! Maybe it was just timing or luck, but that bugged me.

I picked up the bars I wanted and went to the guy behind the cash. At the same time a delivery guy walked in. He was going to take me, but I motioned to the delivery guy and said I had a question. He dealt with him, then I asked "would you recommend these for a road bike?" He said "what bike did you get?" and I said, "an OCR2." He said, "they'll fit." That's it. If he thought they were shit he could have said it. I might have spent more money. If he thought they were great that's all I wanted to know. Instead I get a fitment answer. I didn't ask that. I knew they'd fit. Whatever.

I'd put them on my list, but frankly they're too convenient. I definitely will never make a major purchase there again, and I will not recommend them to anybody. I'm done.

I also picked up some yellow bar tape, and when I got to work I ordered some Michelin Pro2 Race tires for cheap. Three tires for the price of one at any other shop. Awesome. But when I got home and started installing everything and rolling the tape on, I realized that my bike is grey with orange accents, not yellow. Ugh. It looks stupid now. The tires are wrong. Oh well. I hate to sound so vain, but whatever. Maybe I am a little bit. I just want my bike to match.

The installation and adjustments went well. I cleaned it nicely and found a fun place to mount my GPS. It's totally at eye level, right in front. Now it rides like new again. I didn't realize how out of tune it actually was. I wish I had done that before...