And my brain is back to 100% bikes.  I left work and there was a stiff wind at my back as I rode to the train station.  That stiff wind carried me right past the station on through my new route home.  The new route is wonderful with some long stretches of good pavement lacking stop lights or signs with little to no traffic.  I think it will be a good way to get some workouts in throughout the summer.  The temperatures were perfect and it made for a great ride.  I rode a section of Belmont over the Des Plains River at 32 M.P.H.  Those twenty five miles will be an anomaly in the average speed on my cyclo-computer.  About an hour after I got home I was back out the door to go up to Funky Weasel to pick up the parts for the road bike.  Well, Tom was not ready right away, so I walked down the street to the record store.  On my way I was walking past a different bike shop and what I saw in the window was astounding.  It was the Courage cross bike from this years NHMBS!  I could not believe it, I walked into Roscoe Village Bikes and started chatting with the owner Alex about it.  Apparently, a good customer, Jonathan, is really good friends with Aaron, the builder, at Courage and through the help of Alex the three of them put together a bike that earned Aaron "best new builder of the year."  That bike will be the hottest bike in the Cat4 races, if not all the Chicago races this coming season.  Then it was a short walk up the block back to Funky Weasel where Tom and I talked shop for a little while.  He had a bike from the show in his shop as well, A Sycip 650b mountain bike.  So sweet, two bikes from the show, in different shops, just hundreds of feet apart.  We talked a little about getting fitted for the custom framesets for this fall.  That will be cool because I have never been properly fitted for a bike I am riding.  Speaking of which, from the Voodoo I was racing this past fall, the frame (53cm ish), fork (1" steertube), Stem (fancy Easton EC90 1 1/8" carbon), 1" threadless black King Headset and seatpost (thomson black 27.0) will be for sale soon.  If you want any of it, let me know.  And as if no one knows yet, a huge congrats to Marko who will be riding for Planet Bike this fall!  This weekend is going to be embarrassing, but I am riding in the name of a good time.  I am actually pretty excited.