As of today, I am the proud new owner of a 2006 Trek 5200. Hopeully next week I'll start biking to work, and maybe next spring I'll be in shape enough to do some light touring... we'll see how that all works out. It's been about a decade since I've been on a bike, and even at that I wasn't riding a road bike -- the drop handle bars and an STI road shifter are going to take a lot of practice, and having locking cleats is a very strange feeling...

The purpose of this post though is to point out (and laugh at) the notice on the back of the printed manual that came with my bike

An English version of this manual is on the enclosed CD, and also on www.trekbikes.com. If you do not have access to a computer, and want a printed version of the manual, mail a request to the address listed above.

So basically, if I don't have a computer on which to view to electronic version of the printed manual I have in my hands, and want a printed manual instead, I can write, and they'll send me one. Can you say infinite recursion? The only saving grace is that there's actually a street address listed, and not an e-mail address.