Bikegasm

My palms have sweated the last couple of days over the tabloid-sized Road: The Journal of Cycling and Culture Buyer's Guide. There is a woman on the front wearing a skintight red latex body suit with matching spiked-heel platform lace-up boots holding a playful but undeniably diabolical pitchfork. She is standing in front of what appears to be a group of racers hurtling through the mountains. Additional titles on the front list the gear detailed inside with the summary, "All the candy you could ever want!" Indeed. I had to hurry yesterday to look through the 288 road and race bikes and the pertinent cyclepornic details in a scant 45 minutes: Shimano or Campy or SRAM? Carbon, titanium or alloy? I'm hoping to take a good, long look at wheels and then maybe I'll turn to shoes or pedals or helmets. Then, after I've rolled over and had a cigarette, I'll take a good long look at the bikes again. And again. And again.