First post for a year

Not much riding this year for various reasons, at least on the bike. Lots of do with having no one to go out with. HTe city bike has been converted to a single speed, well, it converted itself, which saved me the bother - both gear cables snapped, so i set it up in a reasonable gear to climb hills in Edinburgh and have been riding it that way for several months. It is great, there is much more variety, and challenge, trying to spin fast enough on thr flat, and really stand up and crank on the climbs. Sure I have stronger legs!
Yesterday I went with a someone from work, Bart, who is a keen cyclist ( into fixies), and has a pretty nice mountain bike, and hit the usual Pentlands look. Raining and extremely wet and slippery, but great fun. Came to the path done from Torphin road and the summer growth in grasses and nettles was ridiculous - it is a very narrow path with big stones, which invisible. gets pretty steep a points, so managed to end up with the bike on top of me twice!



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Off to Spain this week, hopefully with a new rear wheel - Hope II hubs and Swiss DT 5.1 rims - and new Shimano XT shadow rear mech, which is much lower profile and should be less prone to taking direct impact of falls.