freshcharlie
New Member
- Location
- Dunblane, Central Scotland
Hello folks,
Having spent too much time browsing these chats as a guest I've decided to register and come out of the closet.
I'd been mainly a mountain biker in recent years and bought a road bike - an Allez Expert - to help me get into triathlons a couple of years ago. Wow. Talk about rediscovered youth. That thing's like a Porsche compared to your typical mountain tractor. So then I built myself a single speed from an old Raleigh racing frame to potter about on through the dark months (That's the one's with an 'r' in them, here in Scotland) Should have been a sleigh really since it snowed from November through to the beginning of May. Ah well.
Great fun in the mainly flat as a pancake Forth Valley but then I took it on a weekend trip to the Outer Hebrides (it was the only one I could fit panniers on). Yes I did actually heave it up and down the coast road grunting like I was giving birth and just about wrenching the handlebars out of the frame. Single speed touring. Been there, done that, don't want to do it again, so now the single speed has been sold.
Just bought a Dawes Horizon - the older steel frame with Shimano C201 groupset - as a run around and to do some more touring. Apart from a rough front hub bearing it's a wee gem. Loverly blue colour with a 'hardaznailz' finish.
So that's my bike history up to date and I hope I can now contribute my tuppence worth every so often.
I'm just fitting Campy Ergo Veloce shifters to the Horizon so that's the current project.
Charlie
Having spent too much time browsing these chats as a guest I've decided to register and come out of the closet.
I'd been mainly a mountain biker in recent years and bought a road bike - an Allez Expert - to help me get into triathlons a couple of years ago. Wow. Talk about rediscovered youth. That thing's like a Porsche compared to your typical mountain tractor. So then I built myself a single speed from an old Raleigh racing frame to potter about on through the dark months (That's the one's with an 'r' in them, here in Scotland) Should have been a sleigh really since it snowed from November through to the beginning of May. Ah well.
Great fun in the mainly flat as a pancake Forth Valley but then I took it on a weekend trip to the Outer Hebrides (it was the only one I could fit panniers on). Yes I did actually heave it up and down the coast road grunting like I was giving birth and just about wrenching the handlebars out of the frame. Single speed touring. Been there, done that, don't want to do it again, so now the single speed has been sold.
Just bought a Dawes Horizon - the older steel frame with Shimano C201 groupset - as a run around and to do some more touring. Apart from a rough front hub bearing it's a wee gem. Loverly blue colour with a 'hardaznailz' finish.
So that's my bike history up to date and I hope I can now contribute my tuppence worth every so often.
I'm just fitting Campy Ergo Veloce shifters to the Horizon so that's the current project.
Charlie