sammi needham : cogitate

After the heinous stack, the results of which are detailed in (almost) too much detail in the previous post, my old bike of 10 years was in need of a bit of fix-a-mee-jigging. So i strolled into the local bike store where the guys are always incredibly helpful and friendly and booked in for a service.

While i was there i noticed a bike up on the wall. It was unlike anything i had seen, it was a mountain bike frame, but with disc brakes and road bike wheels. It was all matte black and looked totally badass. I enquired as to what the story was with the bike and it was explained to me that it was a Cannondale Bad Boy. They took both mountain bike wheels and road bike wheels and had a more mountain bike feel to their frames. I had recently been trialing road bikes as it cuts down on my cummute to work and back by 5 – 10 minutes each way, but i was yet to find a road bike that fitted my MTB sensibilities. This was the answer.

Today i am the proud owner of this new beast. I got the guys to throw in the parts and labour of my old bikes fix-a-mee-jigging and walked away with an old faithful mountain biking staple, and my new hotness, the Cannondale Bad Boy Disc. There is also an ‘Ultra’ version with comes with pin-lockable front suspension, but i felt as though this bike was primarily going to be a commuter and that perhaps the extra $600 was no warranted. Although it did sound like an awesome bike.