Now that I've bought a road bike (second hand 2000
Giant TCR2 with std 105 components but 12-23 cassette, and Open Pro wheels with titanium front hub and XTR rear - the wheels are the coolest part of the bike), to supplement my reasonably nice new mountain bike (NZ brand - 2004
Avanti Aggressor), I'm all excited about cycling
It's summer here, so I've been getting out quite a bit. I enjoyed my first group ride a couple of weeks ago (only four people, but as the least fit, I got to ride at the back
), plus rode up into the local ranges (400+m rise) last weekend. Most cars were polite to me
.
And tomorrow I'm going mountain biking in a forest with more singletrack than I can ride in 1/2 a day. This week, twice I rode up a 400m high, 6km long, "mountain" (unfortunately on mountain bike, so I was slow).
Oh yeah, and I'm on holiday 'till Sunday, and have been all week (in the sunny Hawkes Bay).
So life's pretty good. On holiday, feeling really, really fit.
Rant over, I've bored anyone reading this enough...