My new-to-me cyclocross bike I have always enjoyed cycling, but when I was in high school, in the early 1990s, a friend of mine started cycling in a serious manner. I had been friends with him since we were in the third or fourth grade when we played on the same soccer team. I saw what he was doing and it looked like a lot of fun, so I followed along and bought my first road bike from him, a Schwinn Prelude, very similar to this one minus the aero bars. Up until that point I had had a bike of some sort growing up and would ride all over the place. Now I was moving into another chapter of cycling in which I would wear lycra shorts, clip in to Look pedals and ride the narrowest tires I had ever seen. I immediately fell in love with this new type of bike riding. I began riding with him and the local racing club, though I had a hard time keeping up at first, I eventually was able to keep pace with the group. My next bike would be a Trek 1400. It still had downtube shifters, ...
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