Originally Posted by Llani Boy
Jolly good.
I find once I am closer to 50 than 40 miles the ride starts to feel like work rather than pure pleasure - although I rode a total of 100+ miles last week - but that may be due to the sensitivity of my posterior.
I have never festooned the Bianchi with a saddle bag of any kind. Why would you buy something of beauty to ride and then make it look like something from Woolworth's? So "stuff" has to be carried on my person - which I dislike marginally less. I used to carry a "tool pod" where the second bidon would go but that obviously doesn't work on a two-bidon ride. A small rucksack is OK but then I fret about wind resistance. Problems problems!
Anyway I bought a new pod big enough for tools/tube/levers and so without the 'sack tested it to touch 43 mph on a nearby descent. I have convinced myself that is due to less wind resistance - rather than me suddenly finding another 50 watts - I am sure Newton or Einstein would agree.
Obviously, obviously this was on an unrestricted country road. One would not exceed 20 mph otherwise, would one?
Sometime later I was loudly pipped from behind on a main road when close to the kerb on a road I know extremely well. I did wonder why? Did the driver think I could not imagine on an A road there might be a motor vehicle behind me? Could I be so innocent? Was it my first excursion on the metalled roads of England?
But no - it was just an open-topped BMW, with a blonde in the passenger seat and a cyclist-hating driver behind the wheel.
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