epicyclo
Senior Retro Guru
Getting lazy so dug out the old Bowery singlespeed for a bit of Tarmac Aversion Therapy, aka road ride. (The Bowery is my bike from Oz which I took over here last year)
Headed up the hill to the Highland Cafe for lunch.
A bit of heavy breathing was involved, but a surprisingly easy climb on a bike with stiff chainstays.
Thought about heading over to the Struie to have a go at it seeing as the bike was going uphill so nicely, but the headwind was so fierce I had to pedal on the downhills. That meant I would have a good wind assist up the Struie, but that would be cheating, wouldn't it?
Instead I went for a short loop round Cromarty Firth and got soaked by the rain.
The saddle has spent 15 years in the Northern Australian sun and any semblance of flexibility or compliance has long since been baked out of it so there was some discomfort, almost to Brook Swallow standards.
Somehow I found myself off the tarmac a few times...
Headed up the hill to the Highland Cafe for lunch.
A bit of heavy breathing was involved, but a surprisingly easy climb on a bike with stiff chainstays.
Thought about heading over to the Struie to have a go at it seeing as the bike was going uphill so nicely, but the headwind was so fierce I had to pedal on the downhills. That meant I would have a good wind assist up the Struie, but that would be cheating, wouldn't it?
Instead I went for a short loop round Cromarty Firth and got soaked by the rain.
The saddle has spent 15 years in the Northern Australian sun and any semblance of flexibility or compliance has long since been baked out of it so there was some discomfort, almost to Brook Swallow standards.

Somehow I found myself off the tarmac a few times...
