Yep, a ride together would be good, look forward.

At the moment though my fitness levels are through the floor, I'll get the bike ready and go out on a few 8 - 10 mile rides to just get my legs moving again, I am using the bike but it's only on short journeys and I'm dawdling.

Your 11mph on a mountain bike will be 15 - 17mph on a road bike, I'm doing 11-12mph now on my road bike.

I've noticed that about 10 or so rides and fitness starts to kick in, the rides don't seem to hurt as much and quicker recovery comes.

There's a zone in cycling when you have some fitness, where you set a tempo and you find the point where you're putting yourself through it, but not enough to make you want to stop and enough to make you stop thinking about all those day to day things you want to leave behind and when there you just concentrate on the road. When you're in that zone, you start to enjoy the pain and cover endless miles.

Give me about a month or so to get myself in gear and we'll go for a ride.