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Perseverance, and a good tool kit, will get you where you need to go.
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Yeah.
TheMooseler
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Right into this cycling lark now. I got to work in just under 20 mins last week (19:47) and got myself a bright yellow reflective jacket that's actually waterproof and breathable too. (The £20 ones in Aldi).
Another thing I've learnt in my weeks education is that a poor road surface REALLY takes the speed out of the tyres doesn't it?! The bus lanes are a bit lumpy and bumpy and they're hard work!
Today I Managed to stay on the 'highest' front cog all the way there and back and only used the top 6 gears. My marathon training ensures that it's not actually that taxing cardio-wise. It's my legs that burn out first but even after just one week I can feel them getting stronger.
The bike has had an easy life though - it was hardly used by my auntie and mum but under its third owner it's taking a bit more grunt and it now makes some right rickety noises, particularly in top gear. I'm going to take it to the local shop and get it serviced at the weekend I think.
I know it's only a cheap bike but surely it should be able to stand just 10 miles a day? I'm hardly battering it.
Another thing I've learnt in my weeks education is that a poor road surface REALLY takes the speed out of the tyres doesn't it?! The bus lanes are a bit lumpy and bumpy and they're hard work!
Today I Managed to stay on the 'highest' front cog all the way there and back and only used the top 6 gears. My marathon training ensures that it's not actually that taxing cardio-wise. It's my legs that burn out first but even after just one week I can feel them getting stronger.
The bike has had an easy life though - it was hardly used by my auntie and mum but under its third owner it's taking a bit more grunt and it now makes some right rickety noises, particularly in top gear. I'm going to take it to the local shop and get it serviced at the weekend I think.
I know it's only a cheap bike but surely it should be able to stand just 10 miles a day? I'm hardly battering it.
TheMooseler
Regular
Ooo one more thing, last Friday I pulled my first overtake on another bike!....
About 1.5 miles from home is a steep hill about half a mile long followed by a long flat mile straight (if your on the road, the path is full of little hills where the kerb drops and raises).
As I huffed and puffed to the top of the hill I saw a chav cruise by on his BMX.
No way was I having that - I'm a proper cyclist now and I'm not losing to a guy riding one handed, with no gears or helmet on an 'hilly' path with a can of special brew in his hand (well maybe not the spec brew!)
Even though I was bolloksed from the hill I shifted 'The Hogg' into 18th and put the hammer down.
Went past the guy in a spray of sweat and grunts but he knew it was on. Him on the path, fresh as a daisy, me on the road. He had a go but it was not to be.
All you need to know is, I done him. By miles. :-D
About 1.5 miles from home is a steep hill about half a mile long followed by a long flat mile straight (if your on the road, the path is full of little hills where the kerb drops and raises).
As I huffed and puffed to the top of the hill I saw a chav cruise by on his BMX.
No way was I having that - I'm a proper cyclist now and I'm not losing to a guy riding one handed, with no gears or helmet on an 'hilly' path with a can of special brew in his hand (well maybe not the spec brew!)
Even though I was bolloksed from the hill I shifted 'The Hogg' into 18th and put the hammer down.
Went past the guy in a spray of sweat and grunts but he knew it was on. Him on the path, fresh as a daisy, me on the road. He had a go but it was not to be.
All you need to know is, I done him. By miles. :-D
