Like Armstrong say's 'It's not about the bike' get out training and suffering, always enjoy watching Paris Roubaix what a monster of a race, got a few of them on dvd, favourite one is 2004 when Roger Hammond came third, brilliant:cool:
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I'm getting good kit now while I can afford it, and will make it last for years. So I guess I will go from being a youngish cyclist who has a lovely bling light carbon fibre bike, to being an old git still riding around on 40 year old bikes...
Hmm once I have those wheels though, definitely going to rain in the expenditure, and if I built a single speed going to make sure I spend as little as possible on it (aren't SS's supposed to be built out of old odds and ends lying around anyway??....)...
God I seem to be doing a good job of that at the moment!! Met someone who is into cycling, climbing, running and the outdoors, but it's not going to happen, so at the moment there's absolutely no risk of me ending up with one (unless Stolly's daughters are interested... :-P )
It's ok, sure he can't ride a bike fast enough to catch me!!.. :-P
It would be good training time trialing at 40mph... ;-)
hmm a race across 5 continents, night and day with no time for sleeping, eating, or anything else...
Sounds like fun...
(actually the RAAM is on the to do list as well, but that costs a bomb), unless I could get a few friends to help out on the cheap. Did have one mate who had a camper van and said that he reckoned we could get across America on less than a grand. Sounds like a good challenge to me!!...