That's a fabulous collection of bikes you have there SirAnother rodie here.
I have 3 road bikes, including a SS, a Raleigh from the late 80s and my baby.... I built the SS from an old 531 Reynolds frame I picked up on ebay, the only use it gets nowadays is on the trainer. The Raleigh Vittese got a complete upgrade about 10 years ago and used to be my winter bike until a couple of years ago. The baby.... I bought a Van Nicholas TI frame and I fitted the nicest parts I found without going crazy.... 90% durace 7900, I built decent wheels for it and recently build new wheels for it but I won't fit them yet....these are the third set I built for the Van Nicholas, the second set were nearly identical to the third and I sold them to a friend.... he came round and persuaded me to sell the wheels to him so I did.
The last bike I built was 2 years ago, a touring bike and built around the Surly Ogre frame... I love the bike.
The Single Speed
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The Raleigh
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The Van Nicholas
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The Tourer
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I'm also a very respectful rider
Earlier in the year, when we were in full lockdown, it was great to get out on the bike - especially with so little traffic on the roads. I'm very lucky to live on the edge of the countryside with lots of route options. Being stuck in the city would have been much harder.Another roadie here, started cycling again a few years ago and like the OP find it really helps physical and mental fitness.
usually do around 5/6 miles (I think) and it takes me about 32 minutes; I know, much room for improvement.
No matter how fit you are there's always someone fitter. I feel like a champ after a 60k ride with about 500m of hills. Then I'll hear from a friend of my mother's: "oh Brian did 200km the other day". I think her son is a actually Terminator robot.
I get passed all the time on the road. I try to give off a "just cycled 200k and now I'm taking it easy on the home stretch" vibe.
What all cyclists have in common is that once you jump on the bike you feel 15 again. Wheeee!
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