Endlich kommt es....The bike is here.
Initial impressions as follows.
Its very very light....almost impossibly so when you lift it, it feels like its not real.
The wheels are very thin.
Its got 2 x 10 gears.
Tyres pumped up to 8 BAR...whats that all about....unbelievable. You can't do that with a hand pump.
The bike frame is made in Austria....a good omen as its my favorite country...Austrians are like Germans but with big faces, happy outlooks and usually very good at ski-ing. The seat is Italian and the technical bits from the Peoples Republic of Shimano Ultegra.
Took me an hour and some internet surfing to work out how to change down a gear. The lever for up changing sits nicely under the brake lever.....there is only one for each gear and they only go one way. So after that I was stuck. Eventually I worked out the brake lever itself is the change down lever , you just push it to the side. Those wee lads at Shimano are as bright as wee buttons.
Saddle actually felt OK although fitting it to the seat post was very fiddly along with taping the handlebars. The internet world of HOW DO YOU do that again filling the gap in my knowledge.
I got a free bike speedo/computer thing as compensation for my long wait...which when I took it for a quick run showed me flying at over 40kmph.....unfortunately I've not become Jacques Anquetil(personal life excepted).
Reality intervenes and I realise the computer needed calibrating based on my wheel size. So after I inspected my powerful thighs and fixed the computer it was too dark to try it further...I'll sleep tonight dreaming of being the first 42 year old Tour de France debutant.
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Got a puncture repair kit or a spare tube? Push comes to shove you can always carry the bike home under one arm :-)
ReplyDeletenot yet, was hoping to pick it all up this week but work has been a nightmare
ReplyDeleteOff to Brownies this weekend so little hope of exercise and high probabability of first hangover for nearly a year. If past experience is anything to go by. :O)
ReplyDelete...Becks Gold frenzy with Brownie!!! Aahhhh
ReplyDeleteCan report he is here and have him on champagne already. Becks is chilling ready to jump on him and surprise him. I am trying to make him better! I will then get him onto red wine -- then we have a triathlon. One litre of wine followed by 2 cases of becks and 3 litres of red wine.
ReplyDelete..go for it...it's the nutrition his body's been craving for some time ;-)
ReplyDeleteTraining went just as well as expected. Cammy was restricted to a 5k run followed by Becks, a big steak complemented with 2 bottles of Gran Reserva Rioja (shared with me), a taxi to Frankfurt, a couple of beers and then a realxed feed at home with cheese accompanied with a 1988 Margaux swiftly followed by a 1996 Pommerol and a good nights sleep. Mission accomplished!
ReplyDeleteDon;t forget the tea and bacon buttie in bed....its a grand place you're running sir.
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