Goldilocks Gets A Makeover

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Early this spring, I tipped over on Goldilocks. I had a bag full of stuff over my shoulder, and I was trying to carry a bike trainer on my handlebars. (I was headed to the track to do Kevin O’Connor’s Duathlon Workout.) When I tipped over on my bike with all the crap, I was standing still, so I didn’t hurt anything except for tearing some of the fat-wrap on my bike:

And on the other side of my bike, the fat-wrap was starting to spread out:

So I got to work. It was time to re-wrap my bars:

Unraveling my old wrap.


One bar re-wrapped.


The mess in my basement.


Both sides done, aero bars replaced.

Yes, I put a sea foam green fat wrap on my gold bike. Clash-tastic. What do you think of the new look? I’ll be easier to spot now...

Those are new aero bars too. My old one’s were ruined by Erik’s Bike Shop a local bike store I don’t care for anymore when they tightened them too much and cracked the carbon-fiber bars. Then they were really crabby when I took it back in to them. BUT, they replaced them with new, slightly nicer bars for free. The only issue was that when I spread them out as far as they could go on my headset, the fore-arm pads were just over 1.5 inches apart (as you can see in that last photo above). UNCOMFORTABLE! And hard to steer, too.

They put in some spacers so they could pull the bars farther apart. So now, Goldilocks looks like this:

After a hilly 26+ mile ride last night.

First open water swim race tomorrow!! I’ll be back with a report on Monday! (And Pharmie’s coming to take photos, so I should have a few good shots.) And another giveaway on Tuesday! Happy weekend!!