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WooooHoooo! Only had a brief spin but so far it's nice :)

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Hopefully be able to get a longer ride in the next few days
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What is it. Need to be able read a spec list.
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One of these:

http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/bikes/ro ... 2_compact/

Hoping for a quicker but comfier ride for longer distances than the older Trek 2.1 road bike I've got.
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It's very nice in the flesh. It's making me pine for a new bike and I'm definitely not in the market. :D
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That's a lot of fun, 3 PRs on the way home though I did get a lot of help from the wind. It's absolutely rock solid cornering despite being quite a bit lighter than my other road bike.

https://www.strava.com/activities/303078455

Yeah, I think this will be alright :D
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So I went on a ride on Sunday with my GPS / HR watch strapped on... :) Really like the detail you get back from this tech. I use runtastic to track my rides at the moment but got a cheap android phone recently that I want to use as a speedo for the bike - thinking of using Strava on this... does it give a big display of speed etc?....

Anyway good ride although there was a stinger of hill in the last quarter of the ride... :)

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I did that, once, but I went up and over. I think I'd fallen asleep.
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gumboot wrote:I did that, once, but I went up and over. I think I'd fallen asleep.
Me too but it was years ago as a kid borrowed my mates bike and it was a bit to big for me at the time... Although didn't hit the back of the car so hard...
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His face absorbed that impact quite well.
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I've done that too, although I didn't have a choice - Mondeo man reversed out of a parking space into me as I was hammering down the road with a lorry on my right hand side. As my chin bounced across the roof of his car I remember thinking "good job his sunroof isn't tilted"...
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I have never done that.

And I'm pretty certain typing that has increased the chances of it happening hugely :D
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Good lord!



Amazing someone hooning about in a chelsea tractor goes crackers about cyclists taking up too much space :D
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Neck and neck their in the eloquence competition, mind.
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Chuffmeister wrote:Neck and neck their in the eloquence competition, mind.
Not sure there's any legal obligation for eloquence though I do think you're not really allowed to try and run cyclists off the road :D

To be honest I can't believe all he was done for was threatening behaviour. That's some pretty dangerous driving he hasn't been sanctioned for.
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