100 mile M5 Low Racer test ride... how fast?!

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GrasB

Veteran
Location
Nr Cambridge
So I loaned an M5 CroMo Low Racer for the weekend. It took me about 1 hour to get comfortable on the bike due to huge amounts of hard interference with the owners preferred cranks. So I then go out on a nice easy flat 25 mile loop & return to the village in a shade under 1h 10 min for the 26 miles. With the legs feeling nice n' fresh plus interested in how it copes with the hiller bits of this flat county I head out in the oposite direction to do a nice half century for the day. 1h 4m 17s latter as I pass the 50 mile marker I'm truly in the grove. Put in another figure of 8 going through the same villages but via different roads arriving back home exhausted after 104.2 miles. At this point I look at the trip comp...
:eek:
total time 4h 29m 53s... air temp 7C
:hyper:
I want one... I really, really, really want one!...
 
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