I purchased my first true road bike on August 12, 2014. The first ride was only a short 10 mile sprint that afternoon, just to see what it could do. And man oh man, I thought I had died and gone to heaven! I had already ridden over 35 miles that day on my old, heavy Jamis Citizen hybrid, the bike this new Giant was going to replace. This bike weighed only 14½ pounds. The next day, I rode my first metric century on it. Over the last 7 plus years, I’ve rambled all over the state of Rhode Island, plus a bit of both Connecticut & Massachusetts on this fine cycling machine. In those thousand rides, Scorpius has accumulated a shade over 45,000 miles & 1,985,397 feet of elevation. That averages out to 45 miles and 1,985 feet per ride. Here’s to the next 1,000 rides on this fine steed!