Hi again.
This year I've managed to get plenty of miles in on my road bike and have travelled far and wide , but I'm feeling I'm starting to lose the love, with it. The state of roads are appalling where I live. The pot holes are horrendous and the general road surface is enough to rattle your fillings out. The roads that are decent ,are usually the busy main roads and that means heavy traffic.I don't mind cycling in traffic, but it does get a little tedious sometimes constantly riding on the defensive side and having all your thoughts drowned out by the noise of cars and trucks whizzing by just a few feet from your head..The old Peugeot road bike has done a sterling job taking up the bad roads, but I do think it's only a matter of time before I end up coming a cropper on its skinny 700x23c wheels, twitchy frame and myself missing some great cavernous hole in the road.
I do though have a rather nice Boardman mtb bike which tends to be used as my winter bike.The idea of getting away from the busy roads and embracing the rougher roads and tracks, were there's virtually no traffic and no worry about damaging my bike is very tempting at moment :-). It will obviously be somewhat slower ,but I do feel it will open up my options up as where I would want to ride in our green and pleasant land .
All the very best,
Johnny.
This year I've managed to get plenty of miles in on my road bike and have travelled far and wide , but I'm feeling I'm starting to lose the love, with it. The state of roads are appalling where I live. The pot holes are horrendous and the general road surface is enough to rattle your fillings out. The roads that are decent ,are usually the busy main roads and that means heavy traffic.I don't mind cycling in traffic, but it does get a little tedious sometimes constantly riding on the defensive side and having all your thoughts drowned out by the noise of cars and trucks whizzing by just a few feet from your head..The old Peugeot road bike has done a sterling job taking up the bad roads, but I do think it's only a matter of time before I end up coming a cropper on its skinny 700x23c wheels, twitchy frame and myself missing some great cavernous hole in the road.
I do though have a rather nice Boardman mtb bike which tends to be used as my winter bike.The idea of getting away from the busy roads and embracing the rougher roads and tracks, were there's virtually no traffic and no worry about damaging my bike is very tempting at moment :-). It will obviously be somewhat slower ,but I do feel it will open up my options up as where I would want to ride in our green and pleasant land .
All the very best,
Johnny.