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Got my new Nazca Fiero yesterday. Boys ten to thirteen nearby are excited to say the very least. I haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but I'll try to have some available soon. Here's someone else's pictures of an earlier model. Mine is an under seat steered model.

Actually, some of the boys at work, despite not being ten to thirteen, at least not physically, are excited. Some wanted to try it out but chickened out when seated on it. It's not even that low, the seat height is 44 cm.

The steering just gets better the faster you go. "One man's twitchy is another's precise" means just that: One man goes slow, another fast. On the other hand, it might be the reason my cow-orker jumped on his feet after his first quarter rotation of the pedals.

Fiero is pretty heavy, though, but it's not that evident before you lift it. I need to roll it in our shed on its back wheel because it's so long that the corner is unnavigable otherwise. The local hills are girly, even if you aren't a Californian governator. I only found one place to shift to the low (42 tooth) chainring on my 35 km sightseeing to try it out. The 63 tooth big front compensates the hills in manlyness.

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