Cannondales

You can never have enough Cannondales :)

We need a bigger shed

With two more bikes on the way we're not going to have room in our shed.

Looks like the Thorns will have to go in the Lounge Room :)

Sandys back from Tassie

Sandy got back on Sunday. Pretty knackered but had a great time.

Cradle Mountain

I'm alone

Sandy is off in Tasmania walking Cradle Mountain with Charlie her best friend from school. Charlie has two little ones who are home with Dan her main man. Sandy and Charlie have been talking about going on a hike together for ages so they booked tickets last in an attempt to 'make it happen' I'm so jealous as Tassie is one of my favourite places. Sandy will be back next Sunday night....I cant wait.

Sold our boat

What!!!! you may ask, why did you do that?!?!?!

Well to be honest we love sailing but we also love cycling and the two activities collided often enough to stop us getting value from both of them.

The good news is this is how we funded the purchase of the new touring bikes

We already own touring bikes, why do we need new ones?

Well after spending many dollars and many hours trying to get my Cannondale T1 to my liking I have given up. I think it was too small for me from the start. Combine that with the gearing that was too high and too hard to change as it uses road shifters that aren t compatible with mountain bike cranks and I was reaching the end of my nerves.

I have always oggled over Rohloff hubs which are 14 speed internal geared hubs. Big advantages are, big strong chain, no external bits to get broken, looks neat because there are no external bits. The gears are all evenly spaced etc etc etc etc.. OK they are just a fabulous piece of German engineering. Anyway I was looking at the Thorn website and just love the Raven Tour. Anyway to cut a long story short Sandy and I have ordered one each.

My MTB racing career is over

I've sold my mountain bike to a guy in Melbourne. I had no great desire to do any local MTB racing and it was worth too much sitting in the shed.