Pretty much intend on keeping it stock for now Svend. I've got a lock out on the fork so that helps a bit on the flat stuff.
The plan is to get out to this place within the next few weeks !
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Had a very blustery ride out this morning with one of my wife's work colleagues. He's into his mountain biking and had offered to take me out.
It wasn't a particulally adventurous route, mainly taking in canal paths, a few trails and some road work.
Even with the high winds though it was still nice to be out riding. Our route was almost 27k which felt good to me, I'd have easily pushed on a bit further but my partner's bike had a mechanical issued that ended his ride a bit sooner than he was expecting.
Hopefully next week end il push a bit more north of 30 k.
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26K for a first ride - good one Ben. How did the bike feel? Comfortable? Handle well? Hope you have a good pair of padded cycling shorts.
Hi Svend,
So far I've been really pleasantly surprised at how comfy it is to ride. I've put a slightly more padded seat on it and I wear padded shorts too to help.
The actual MTB riding position is nice an upright and I'm really happy with that.
The 26k route was fairly flat but had a few little hills in it toward the end, strong head wind added a bit to these too.
But by the time we were back to base I still felt I had another 5 to 10 k in me. That's for next weekend now I guess, bring on 32k!
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Sounds like the bike is a good fit for you Ben. If you were comfortable over that distance and had gas in the tank for more, then that's a good sign.
Keep pedalling!
Yep very happy with it Svend.
I've been reading up more on the south downs way route we are riding for our 3 day challenge and the more I read about it the worse it sounds tbh! Over the 100 mile route it takes in over 13000 ft of uppy & downy bits.
With that in mind I've decided that next sat morning I'm heading out towards Chester and an area called delamere that I know reasonably well from the few years ago spent living there. Ive already got in mind a route that will take in a couple of decent climbs (on road) before heading into the Forrest MTB route and then back on the road towards home hopefully with 20 miles covered.
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Another canal jobbie planned for this wk/end Ben ? Being a keen cycling warrior myself in London I've been keeping a close eye on this thread mate..
Had a good 20 miler along Regents canal on Monday from Camden Town to West Drayton, just really lovely to avoid the fumes of London and traffic lights of course !. Interesting things to note on route being
Wembley stadium, Kensal bone yard ( well ?), Sudbury golf course and part of the canal that actually goes over the A406 a huge ring road around London. Probably few drivers even no there s cyclist and water
above there heads ?. Anyway good luck with the ride this summer.... Took the train back to Paddington stn b.t.w