Where has your bike taken you today?

[Wayne pudding Mol]

Garden route glory

[Frosty]

Garden route glory

nice bike. Very nice.

[Pikey]

nice bike. Very nice.

Drool worthy right ????

[Patchelicious]

Drool worthy right ????

Nice...

 

Niner right?, what’s the rest of the specs?

[Pikey]

Nice...

Niner right?, what’s the rest of the specs?

Yea,Niner rlt 9 rdo carbon. The only Niner/ bike I would swap my rlt steel for .

[The Ghost]

  So awesome to see your pics. Enjoy!

[DJR]

Everything logical pointed to riding the MTB this morning, but then emotion took over. What better than a red hot blooded Italian on a foggy, wet and cold morning? Picked the route because if you don't have enough time or distance, you have to pick the steepest hill! Hell, I was so short of breath I wondered about Covid19 symptoms! 

[DJR]

But luckily I soon enough climbed high enough for the shortness of breath to disappear like mist before the sun. The plan was to do hill repeats........and I did..........one of them!     

[capediver]

Staying away from greenbelts for now....dare say it......it's safer on the roads right now!!!

[Wayne pudding Mol]

Nice...

 

Niner right?, what’s the rest of the specs?

Bike is actually a stop gap while I wait for my Ti Curve so it’s for sale soon

Curve wide drop bars

Force 1 x 11 but with garbaruk 10/50 cassette and extended derailleur cage

Curve wheels

Farr carbon saddle on schmolke seatpost

[Wayne pudding Mol]

Found I had a bit more range by measuring my radius from the corner of our plot

[Frosty]

No ride photos from my “Ride in the ‘hood”, which ended on 55.35Km. A few things I realized I haven’t forgotten:

 

1. I can still ride without [emoji1588] [emoji1671] on the bars like before;

2. The hills still hurt;

3. I can still change a tube (puncture) in less than 5 mins - that’s right, punctured about 51km into the ride, with a not-so-nice (big) piece of glass wedged into the tyre being the culprit.

 

I’m as unfit as I thought I would be, so planned a 25Km/h ride around my expectations. With all the turns and stopping for traffic, it’s easy to see why the ave. speed is affected.

[DJR]

Found I had a bit more range by measuring my radius from the corner of our plot

  I picked the "straight up the steepest hill" route and regretted it   

[Wayne pudding Mol]

I picked the "straight up the steepest hill" route and regretted it

Was so eager yesterday that my first hill was a pb despite some lockdown weight. Last hill was the slowest I’ve ever done. Today I paced myself and chose a flatter route

[Pikey]

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2. The hills still hurt;

3. I’m as unfit as I thought I would be

Ditto & Ditto ????...Had to run yesterday with my nipper as he hadn’t been outside the gate in 5 weeks......At least I got my arse out of bed this morning to go ride & loved it .

[Pikey]

  I picked the "straight up the steepest hill" route and regretted it

 

Only while riding though , it’s always not so bad afterwards right ????????