The Weather is getting better, oh yeah and my new bike.

Its been a while but, after talking to my brother in law, I thought i should get my blog ticking along again.

So for cyclists in Adelaide the weather is finally starting to fine up, whilst opportunities for me to get on my bike are still as limited as ever, the weather is doing its best to make those few opportunities as plesant as possible.

Over winter I rode probably about once a week, I had planned to ride my mountain bike quiet a bit but ended up just logging the k’s on my roadie, with intermittent runs on my fixie. But coming into summer heralds the beginning of our cycling season and the host of rides that follow; amy gillet, ride like crazy, coast2coast and Tour Down Under. So there are some good goals to work towards

Upon getting the blessing of my sensational wife I purchased a new bike last week. I was very happy with my Avanti however came across a deal that was too good to say no to. So whilst answering the question of how many bikes does one man need I have come up with an equation n+1, where n is the number of bikes you currently own. There is another form of equation, equally as accurate which is x-1, where x is the number of bikes that will cause your wife to leave you! But seriously its farily addictive.

Anyhow I purchased a Malvern Star Oppy C6. Malvern Star is trying to re-establish itself as a quality bike company after too many years of producing K-Mart bikes. So whilst my new ride does not have euro appeal of a Look, Casati or similar it does far exceed my abilities as a cyclist, whilst still appealing to my appreciation for quality. Ill not go into an indept review here, as frankly iv only logged 45 k’s on it so cant really make a call, other than to say it has far exceeded my expectations so far. For the deal I got on it I kind of expected some inadequacies, but so far its been superb. Anyway ill get back to the bike in another post, but here is a quick snap.

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~ by Mark Lands on October 13, 2010.