Finally, one of my busiest months in years has settled down, so I finally took the plunge and bought myself a road bike. I was worried, after riding nothing but a brakeless track bike for the last three years, that there would be too much to get used to in one bike (brakes and gears, shoes, pedals, geometry etc). Initally, after a couple of shortish runs, I found it fine. The breaks and gears were not an issue, the pedals and shoes ok too. But today I went out a little further and it wrecked my body. I followed one of my favorite routes, a flattish 50miler which I do regularly, and I'd go as far as to say it hurt a lot more than doing it on my track bike. I'm sure it'll be a case of getting used to the position on a new bike, I'm looking forward to getting stuck into the Black Mountains, going out to West Wales, and completing my first century.
These two bikes will live in different parts of the city so I took advantage of having my two bikes together and took some photo's.
