While I look sideways at my Bianchi Via Nirone 7, a new toy that I allowed myself to have yesterday... a toy that needs cleaning, greasing and a lot of love... I sip my coffee and think about the words of someone I had the chance to talk to only once in person: You deserve both, you have two hands and two feet to work and look for money. You can use one for long routes with the ‘pikete’ (group of cycling friends) and the other for carrying and running errands.
And then he reminded me that one should not let oneself be carried away by this mentality of lack, of I don't deserve this... for whatever reason. If you don't need that money right now and you'd like to have them both, why not? Unless you want to get rid of the mountain bike because you don't like it or don't feel comfortable with it.
That's exactly what I was thinking about, selling the mountain bike, cause, with the situation we have here in Cuba, I shouldn't spend money on another bike and then I thought about food and even other people who wouldn't approve of my decision... anyway, everyone has their own way of thinking.
{I can write about these issues of deservedness and other people's opinions another day... but today I want to concentrate on my new project} 😃
The truth is that I got it for a very reasonable price and also a case with some necessary things in it.
Let's see what's inside.
I will probably sell the seatpost (it looks very good quality) and the saddle, which I don't like the way it looks.
The rest I do need and will keep. Even the sports case because it's so cool hahaha...
About my old-new bike, I rode it yesterday to bring it here and it really is something else. My mountain bike is so heavy... the Nirone weighs like a feather compared to it and has the following features:
The frame is hydroformed and triple butted, plus it comes with a carbon fork with special kevlar inserts – Bianchi’s BAT technology – to take the sting out of the ride. The inserts are also found in the chainstays and and at the bottom of the seatstays. www.cyclingweekly.com
Screenshot from bianchi.com
The one I bought came with Continental Gatorskin tyres and a Shimano Claris Ruta 8v groupset. I don't know much about these things, but I think it's for beginners. Guess what? 😃 I'm in that group.
In fact, on cyclingweekly.com, the site I shared with you above, there are some reviews of these bikes and it says that ‘The Bianchi Via Nirone 7, which has a frame once raced at Paris-Roubaix, is Bianchi's entry-level bike - we put it through its paces’.
Wow, I have a bike with history!!!
Lol.I'll look after it and try to keep it looking good. It's not going to look like this... I've got this screenshot from there.
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Yesterday I placed the ad on revolico.com to sell my mountain bike. While I'm writing this post an interested person just wrote me.
I'm hesitating... What would you do?
*And here's my thanks to @pumarte. The purchase was made near his house and he offered to help me. On his electric motorbike he took all those things to my house, and then he took me back to pick up the mountain bike he had left in his photo studio.
Thanks also to him filming me to show me ‘his new toy’ I was able to make that GIF. 😉
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