Justin buys a bike

Justin had been toying with the idea of upgrading his bike for a little while and when Chris upgraded his frame to a P3C Justin started thinking about Chris' P2C frame and going carbon. So I started keeping my eyes open and searching online classifieds for anything interesting. I noticed an ad last week for a P2C where the seller would sell the full bike or the bike minus the wheel set. I'd seen the same ad in a couple of places, Craigslist and Slowtwitch and it had been around a couple of weeks so I thought the seller might be willing to deal some and I passed it along to Justin. Some emails were exchanged and Justin arranged for us to go see the bike in Peterborough today after work. It was actually a pretty nice drive. Justin came and picked me up and we avoided rush hour on the 401 by taking the back roads and every time we turned on to another country road I thought about how this would be a nice road to ride. Hey Chris, we encountered a hill just north of Oshawa ... 10% grade, and it wasn't a short hill either. Good training for IMLP or IMC. We got to Peterborough, found the house and met the seller who then brought out the bike. Based on the ad it was not ridden much, only about 400 km on it so I inspected the components for wear. The rings, cassette, the chain, the tires and they all looked to have very little wear. Justin took it for a test ride and when he got back I rode out on it. It was fast. It moved real nice and didn't need much effort to get going or to maintain speed. Now it was a short ride but you could just tell. So we started talking price for the bike minus the wheel set and brought him down a bit from his asking price and bottom line .... Justin bought a bike. As for the wheels, Justin has ridden my HED 3's and agreed that getting as aero as possible with the new bike was the way to go so he's going to go with them on the bike. I can tell he's excited and can't wait to get out on tomorrow's ride.