Everybody wants to pick Defy up and invariably say "blimey these top end bikes are so cool"
To which i say - this isn't top end but a starter bike
I have had this, quite a few times with my Defy
One of my customers asked have I ever 'done a bike race'. I told them that I was cycling in the Tour of Britain Challenge Ride that coming weekend (8th Sept this year) and she asked how far. I told her it was 57.2 miles. She looked shocked to the core and asked "so you will be cycling for a couple of weeks then"
Bless her little cotton socks.
When I said that I would be starting at 10am and would finish mid afternoon and THEN I would cycle the 5.5 miles home, she had to have a sit down. She then gave me a stiff talking too about telling stories to people, how I should not wind them up and that it isn't humanly possible to cycle that far in just one day.
I mentioned Brad Wiggins, Mark Cavendish etc, who she had heard of because of the Olympics and how they ride 140 miles a day, every day for 3 weeks with only a couple of days off. Her reply? "Yes dear, but they are MEN".