Summer time makes me want to try something new, and I want to take up mountain biking this summer, at least get through some beginner basics. As such, I am currently on the market for an entry-level mountain bike. I love my Wahoo which replaced my Tarpon, but the extra-small frame is simply too small. I went to Belmont Wheelworks yesterday and test-rode a 2006 Gary Fisher Wahoo (what can I say? I am a brand-loyalist, andwahoos have a particularly special sentiment in my heart - an intelligent fish that can drink twice its weight in liquid substances, usually water :).

Anyway, back to mountain bikes. I fell in love with that 2006 Gary Fisher Wahoo at Wheelworks, and it is definitely still within my price range. I am still scouring craigslist, and there are a couple of leads. I prefer to buy a couple of years used because $300-400 will buy me a better bike (either Marlin or dare I dream for a Tassajara?). If no good leads come through though, I have my eyes set on that Wheelworks Wahoo I saw with the Metallic Black paint job in Belmont.

After I get the bike will come the shopping for clipless pedals … and then we will be in business