back on the bike

Thu, Jan 22, 2009

I’ve finally got round to putting the new rear wheel on the bike. It wasn’t the Mavic Aksium I’d ordered as I fell foul of badly configured email servers and to cut a long story short, I couldn’t get any information out of the shop on whether they’d received my order and where it was if they had. In the end I gave up and cancelled it and got one from the CTC shop on Wiggle. It’s an M:Wheel, Mavic Open Pro rim and Shimano 105 hub and it’s smooth as a baby’s you know what!

Straight away the world becomes far more interesting than driving to work. Yesterday I was coming back over hill road about 200m up and although I was heading into a strong headwind I heard a rustle in the heather to my right and glancing round I saw a huge otter dropping off a peat bank. I immediately stopped, jumped off the bike and walked over to the top of the bank to see it run off and away up the hill. Superb! Then this morning I came round the corner to meet two deer and a raptor. Superb again!