Good and Bad

"Bryan Anderson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Good: Padded cycling shorts worn under my nice warm regular shorts. Only got them last week and am
just starting to appreciate them on the longer rides.

Bad: The things we do for love. I got this new bike a coupld of weeks ago and have been "chancing"
it for a while without a spare tube, etc when I go out. Basically I knew that people were getting
little bits and pieces for me for my birthday last week. Anyway - I got some of the bits and also
some tokens and so on and went along to Halfords to get the last bits - end bars, spare tube,
under saddle bag, etc. I also got a decent pump to fit to the frame....I was ready for anything!

Then I got home and before unpacking, my wife said to me...."you didn't go mad did you? Mum and
Dad are coming up at the weekend and they have some bits for you as well.....a pump and tool kit".

Not wanting to offend anyone, my new pump stayed in the box and was ready to go back to
Halfords....I carried on tempting fate.....and tonight I had a very nice fifteen minute
ride....followed by a three quarters of an hour walk home :-( All because I'm getting a pump at
the weekend and didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

Still....those padded shorts are nice, and I do have the big old foot pump in the garage to at
least mene the puncture.

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Bryan Anderson <[email hidden] | www.bryananderson.co.uk>

(Up to about ten miles per day, twenty on a Sunday)

Bryan!!!

Quick, don't return the goods. Keep them in readyness for when you get your other bikes ;-)

I've got one set of tools, pump etc. and it's a real pain when I'm choosing which one of my ten
bikes I'm going to ride. Obviously ten different sets would be ideal and save me wasting quarter of
an hour everytime I 'pop-out' on a different bike, swapping said kit, but in the meantime, 4 or 5
would be useful as they could cover my most frequently used bikes.....

And before you ask, as the saying goes, 'you can never have too many bikes...'

Cheers,

Dave.

Dave said:

Quick, don't return the goods. Keep them in readyness for when you get your other bikes ;-)

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And before you ask, as the saying goes, 'you can never have too many bikes...'

You know....a couple of weeks ago I'd have answered this with "you can only ride one at a time", but
the last couple of days I've been thinking about looking for a cheap road bike! I guess most newbies
do what I did and think that a mountain bike would cover both on and off-road, but getting the wind
whistling past at the heady speeds of
28.1mph (according to the computer on the handlebars) makes me want to try and "proper" road bike as
well.......especially after having seen the mud out in the fields tonight - I might be doing a
lot more on-road riding now that the rain's on it's way......

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Bryan Anderson <[email hidden] | www.bryananderson.co.uk

"Bryan Anderson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Dave said:

Quick, don't return the goods. Keep them in readyness for when you get your other bikes ;-)

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And before you ask, as the saying goes, 'you can never have too many bikes...'

You know....a couple of weeks ago I'd have answered this with "you can only ride one at a time",
but the last couple of days I've been thinking about looking for a cheap road bike! I guess most
newbies do what I did and think that a mountain bike would cover both on and off-road, but getting
the wind whistling past at the heady speeds of
28.1mph (according to the computer on the handlebars) makes me want to try and "proper" road bike
as well.......especially after having seen the mud out in the fields tonight - I might be doing
a lot more on-road riding now that the rain's on it's way......

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Bryan Anderson <[email hidden] | www.bryananderson.co.uk>

Then, after a while, of course, you'll be fascinated by the idea of a recumbent and need to add one
of those to the stable. Then the quirkiness of a 1950's foldable shopper will appeal to your sense
of humour and you won't be able to resist being offered one for a fiver....etcetc.... ;-) Dave.