Introduction to Bean's

I moved to the area in 96 after college. Being just out of college, I didn't have a whole lot of cash.

Sometime in late 97 or early 98, I visited a bike shop near where I worked called Bean's Bikes. There the proprietor (i.e. Sean) sold me a lightweight performance oriented Cannondale frame to upgrade my old school Diamondback steel frame. I say old school, because that steel frame was already 5 or 6 years old by then.

I loved that Cannondale frame. The handling was amazing or at least a noticeable improvement over the old steel frame.

I rode it mostly at French Creek and Marsh Creek for about two years.

Roughly about the same time I got this frame (within the same year at least), I also got into motorcycles. The motorcycles turned out to be the demise of my beloved Cannondale. Sometime in 2000, I sold the mt. bike (the Manitou Three included) for extra racing cash and never saw it again.

Hmmm. I wonder if there's any chance of hunting it down?

- b