My analogue stares at me mournfully whilst I take the ebike out, again when I bring it back and whilst lavishing love and attention on to it of a kind the analogue never knew. I should feel bad for the analogue, but the fucker never helped me up the hills like the ebike does, so it can do one...
Tomorrow up to Hindhead, down to Hankley, Frensham, Tilford and home, should be ~35 miles nice and varied. First time out in three weeks due to busted ribs…
Side loader cage and spare bottle in backpack, often in a three hour spin don’t need the backpack one but nice to know it is there. Tried a bladder and found it too much hassle.
Lovely looking bike, will never be that clean again…
Not a massively solid wall but can take over 30kg easily on a not massively solid wall. Another vote for checking how low the ceiling is, very nearly made a mess of it...
Canyon had mounts for them but the 2021 bikes don’t have them. Unless you only ride in bike parks you should have a bell, how else do you alert walkers to your presence, shout at them like some kind of gravel bike tosspot?
Hi Matthew,
If you're ever in the southwest of Surrey area I'm out and about three to four days a week, mostly on these trails or others in the area;
https://www.surreyhills.org/discover-route/cycle-surrey-hills-elstead/
https://www.surreyhills.org/discover-route/cycle-surrey-hills-2/...
After 11 days Commencal finally got the money back in my account. Not really buying the Covid/Brexit excuse, after telling Commencal to shove it I ordered a Canyon on a Sunday, it arrived from Germany the following Tuesday, 9 days. So what is the excuse for anyone else?
No I wasn’t. Commencal were selling VAT free and I would have had to pay the U.K. VAT to the carrier, plus admin fee, but they screwed up the order so I cancelled and bought from Canyon who have registered with HMRC and so they pay the VAT directly and I paid the amount shown on the website and...
If you need an update on this, yeah, Canyon do an inclusive price and DHL deliver as before Brexit. Others who have not registered with HMRC (and you can't blame them, the UK is an important market, but take this shit to the extreme and every company needs to register with >200 country's tax...