BOOM! First bike since 1999!!!

[Wayne pudding Mol]

29 minutes ago, Fillipe said:

I settled on a Avalanche Reflex 3 29er. Large frame for 5.5k at the LBS.

My nuts just just clears the crossbar. 😂 

Took a quick shakedown ride. 2km. Shees. One does not forget how to ride a bike but I could feel I havent ridden a bike in ages. Already got a puncture. 🤣 Took it back and they put some slime tubes and tire liners. 

Lets see how that holds up. 

Bike is not heavy. I can pick it up pretty easily. Gear changes are smooth. "Shitty" mechanical disc brakes works well. Overall, for someone with no recent experience with a bicycle I am happy. Wanted to do a 20km ride this morning but its raining cats and dogs. 

Bike is still new so everything works lekker. Will give feedback after a couple serious rides about quality and how the components holds up. 

The regular spot where the guys ride is a bit dodgy at the moment. Cyclist got killed in the plantations. 🤨

See ya!

 

Great that you have a bike and hope you drop that weight and have fun and ride in your wife beater and crocs but please wear a helmet.  Just one serious suggestion  now though, your photo has to be taken on a couch or you’ll get a puncture everyday and your gonads will permanently rashes

  

 

 

[Fillipe]

5 minutes ago, Wayne pudding Mol said:

Great that you have a bike and hope you drop that weight and have fun and ride in your wife beater and crocs but please wear a helmet.  Just one serious suggestion  now though, your photo has to be taken on a couch or you’ll get a puncture everyday and your gonads will permanently rashes

  

 

 

🤣🤣 yeah helmet is next on the shopping list. 

[Wayne pudding Mol]

3 hours ago, Fillipe said:

🤣🤣 yeah helmet is next on the shopping list. 

If you have a massive head and 99 bucks for the courier guy I’ll send you one - dm me

[Fillipe]

On 10/22/2022 at 4:08 PM, Wayne pudding Mol said:

If you have a massive head and 99 bucks for the courier guy I’ll send you one - dm me

You have mail.  Thanks so much!  wow. 

 

[Fillipe]

Went for another quick 3.66km jaunt around the neighborhood. 

I really need to practice my gear selection in advance. 🤣

Got caught out a couple of times mounting a kerb and needing to trap hard to get going again. I felt like a learner driver always selecting the wrong gear and laboring in the moeilike ratte. 

So far enjoying the bike and I can see myself cycling more and more.

But traffic and cars is another thing to get used to. I cycled in streets that are quite, but I feel so exposed. I used to ride motorcycle for years and never felt like this. Probably because I had the power on tap to get away from cars. 😄 I find myself constantly "looking in my mirrors", only to remember there is none! 😂 This unknown feeling of what is potentially behind me is weird and I tried cycling on the pathways, but it's littered with glass and rubbish and so uneven. 

Ideally I would love to cycle on like promenades or at places like Bahati where there is only foot traffic. I don't want to become a statistic. 🤔

But so far enjoying it. I'm itching to do a 20km or something. Slow. 😆