And today I did......
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Out for first run of the year. on the road out through the West Mainland. Overcast, 15 knot southerly (which compared favourably with the 40 knot southerly at the same time yesterday), 26 miles at 15 mph average fuelled by a single banana. Cold but content. All snow now gone.
Too cheap to use a jet-wash on my bikes. Hose and Muc-Off all the way.
Out for 2.5 hours on the 29'er today. No big revelations, I'm not that smart of a rider, but I think it does maintain momentum a little bit better - definitely noticeable on a couple of road stretches I did, where I came over all Tour de Falkirk for a few hundred yards.
Thaw seems to be under way, plenty of mud and oomsk, still some hardcore ice hanging about though, and not all of it the slushy kind either. Only one low speed off due to the ice, got off the beaten trail up Callendar Park and found a couple of nice little bits through the trees - no tyre tracks either... Let's offroad!
Out for 2.5 hours on the 29'er today. No big revelations, I'm not that smart of a rider, but I think it does maintain momentum a little bit better - definitely noticeable on a couple of road stretches I did, where I came over all Tour de Falkirk for a few hundred yards.
Thaw seems to be under way, plenty of mud and oomsk, still some hardcore ice hanging about though, and not all of it the slushy kind either. Only one low speed off due to the ice, got off the beaten trail up Callendar Park and found a couple of nice little bits through the trees - no tyre tracks either... Let's offroad!
Managed about 3 miles on the bike up at Dunkeld - started at about 3 inches of snow on top of ice I gave up going up hill when it got to about 8 inches deep and I could no longer walk in it - pedalling ceased to be an option when the hard packed snow disappeared 
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pic here...
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Today I made my workshop look like a Milanese Autodelta Race team scene from
circa 1969. I now have my friends Alfa Giulia Sprint GT in the bay behind my own GTA Replica for a pre-season rebuild. They look awesome side by side up in the air in bits. Then a huge box full of kinky parts arrived for my car which were all oo'd and arrr'd over (the attatched bill had the opposite effect) before being bolted into place. I then went home a fitted the refurbed Revolutions to the Fat Ti. All in all a good day
circa 1969. I now have my friends Alfa Giulia Sprint GT in the bay behind my own GTA Replica for a pre-season rebuild. They look awesome side by side up in the air in bits. Then a huge box full of kinky parts arrived for my car which were all oo'd and arrr'd over (the attatched bill had the opposite effect) before being bolted into place. I then went home a fitted the refurbed Revolutions to the Fat Ti. All in all a good day
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boxed up the road bike, ready for courier, my flirt with thin tires was a short one :roll:
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