Talented photographer I am not!

There was a very small window of time where my Dos Niner was built up before we had to pack it up to ship out to Phoenix. One hour to be exact.

It's not set up exactly as I will race it, because I am still waiting on some parts from sponsors. But minus the fork and brakes it's pretty close. Not that you can see anything from the pictures because apparently I really suck at taking them!

I started out with the best intentions....yup, got the bottom part of the bike (kind of)

Managed to take a picture of the chain even though I was trying to focus on the fact that my bike says "Ride and Smile!" I love that!
But everything went downhill from there. I have a million different close-ups of the frame that I'm not going to even bother uploading. With the light shining directly on it, you can't even tell that it's a bike!

And then I got really distracted by my handlebar.

Case in point....

I think I must be smitten with that little chili pepper because I took ten pictures of it on my handlebar alone. TEN!!!!

I've gotten A LOT of e-mails and facebook messages from people telling me about their Salsa bikes, and I can't wait to try out the Dos Niner. I'm so excited about riding it out in the desert that I'm not even really thinking about the fact that I have to fly. Yet.

I leave you with another brilliant picture that I took while picking up my bike. Check out Velo City's new arrival. From the picture it could be a few things, but I was trying to focus on the coffee maker. All they need now is a plate of cookies and I'll start to live there :-)