I've been trying some road bikes out, looking for my road bike. I want to do it right, so I've been taking it slowly. I took a few more on Saturday out for test rides. I tried them all "the right way" where I wore my usual set of bike clothes and made the salespeople put on the right sort of pedals and adjust the seat height. For the more recent rides, now that I've got my Garmin 305, I started a new lap and put it in my jersey pocket so I could make sure that it really was faster and wasn't just feeling like it was faster for vaguely the same reason why a car with bucket seats feels faster than a car with a bench front and back.
Copyright 2007, Ken Wronkiewicz