OK so it's not new. It's my old steel road bike which was in need of some major work. The cable routing under the bottom bracket was a VERY poor design by Garmin back in the day and it just dug into the metal and I never got a good shift with the bike, and could NOT get the front derailleur to ever work.
So with a "Big Shout Out" to Terry D. and Jeff K. at The Bicycle Shop to help me grind off the stuff, paint the bare metal and put a nylon cable router underneath. I also replaced the BB so I could put on an Octolink 175 crank that was given to me 7 years ago... This work took us/me a good afternoon, and I should have done this 10 years ago! Because the bike shifts! Wow! I also put on my "road" fenders and zip tied them on... even today the road was wet, and I was glad it was not wet on me. I began this morning early and had my Quiet Time, read my new feeds and the weather was nice. I began laundry and began working on putting the bike together.
Yesterday when I was working it was 8°C and sunny, if I had the bike I would have ridden... Today was supposed to be cloudy and 1°C. Our weatherman is BAD, and this time it was in my favor. By 10:00 a.m. it was 8°C outside and SUNNY! I went for a ride. The wind from the west was a bit strong but on January 7, if you can ride on the road you ride on the road because there will be plenty of Saturdays spent on the Rollers, watching The Sufferfest tracking the training on TrainerRoad. Seeing that we are just at the beginning of winter and I've only done one workout with TrainerRoad, I'll save that for another Blog. The ride was fantastic, I was dressed well and got in a good 80 kms. in just around three hours.
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