Piece by piece

Like I mentioned last week, I'm trying to get stuff lined up for what promises to be a very interesting 2010 season. New team, new bikes, new kit, new ... well, pretty much everything. I think the only carryovers of any significance are my pedals, shoes, HRM and TT helmet. Yeah, pretty much everything is new — or at least different. And some of it is starting to show up.

It starts at the top with the Bell Volt. I had a blue and white one that finally found a new home last week. Put simply, it's the best-fitting helmet I've ever worn. And when you have a big, dumb alien head like me, you stick with what works.

The new license arrived a couple of days ago, too. The blurry camera-phone photo makes it look like a spy shot, but really it's just not that great of a camera phone. Lots of fun info there. No, there's no mountain license. Seriously, do you want to see me on a MTB, and in a race? Yikes.

Added some new (to me) pedals to the TT bike the other day. The problem with bike proliferation is outfitting them accordingly. I'd been using some old Shimano R540 pedals. They've since been upgraded to Ultegra SL, so they're basically the same thing as the Dura-Ace pedals on the Madone.

And I think that's it for now. Baby steps, you know? After a couple of smaller things, these are next on the list. Gonna take a lot of extra writing to get that done, though.