On the road to nowhere#

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:00:45 +0000

First I thought that a dedicated back wheel for the turbo trainer would make it less hassle. That was before I realised I would need to fiddle with the gear indexing whenever swapping wheels, and that serious sprint intervals flex the rear triange in directions I think it probably wasn't designed to cope with. So, for various previously-explained (and in honesty not all that good) reasons I have a spare frame lying around: since my crankset upgrade I can fit the old one on the training bike (ugly replacement lh crank less than a tenner) and the box o' bits turns out to have an awful lot of the other necessaries.

In short, this is now a three-bike household. Though the newest creation is not going anywhere, and being entirely without brakes (though I fitted levers just for something to hold on to) would be unable to stop at its destination if hypothetically it did.

Other bikes: the practical bike has been going up and down to Crystal Palace a lot recently, because the Firebrox is there and undergoing fettling. The fun bike has not been out as much, but will have proper roadie pedals (Look delta) instead of its present SPDs when next it does