Random ranting, I never got a confirmation that my bike was sent on Wednesday, so I sent a mail asking, turns out its not ready, it might get ready tomorrow, guess I’ll be lucky if my bike comes next week (I need it before I start working again!)
Our daughter got born before my new bike is delivered, everything is going according to plan!
Born Sunday 7th of April, 02:52 am
She weighed a healthy 4190 grams and was 52 cm long.
Fun thing about the day, I prepared my old bike for retirement, even if my new one comes next week first, so the old Occano is scrubbed and rubbed and almost shining!
Easter is over and it’s been four days of work this week!
First up the boring numbers from my week of commuting to work!
It’s all based on numbers from my recordings with runkeeper, so they are most likely not 100% accurate xD
Number of days biking to work: 4
The distance I biked this week: 133,06 km
Total climb: 1697 m
Calories Burned: 5376 kcal
All rides the shortest route to work, if you want to see the route it’s linked >here<
Now back to the good part:
I sent a mail on Friday asking about the delivery of my new bike from Poison, and this is what I got:
I guess it’s soon time for me to write a review of the company and order process! (then later on I’ll write how I feel my bike has been)
Well, almost spring I guess, this week has been the first week of almost no winter clothing.
Morning temps from -2°c to -0.8°c, most of the ice is gone from the roads, some roads are even cleaned of gravel!
Anyway, this morning I took a different route to work, nothing major, just sort of a right where I usually go straight ahead and take a left, ended up finding a nasty hill, lots of shadow with lots of ice and not really any gains at all.
To end the post, here is some pictures I stopped to take, of my bike:
New month, new adventures, but first of all, recap of March!
It’s been random weather and road conditions, the basic winter chill (all the way down to -12°c, snow and ice) to warmer weather and lots of water (dont forget the “pinch” of salt and gravel).
Recap from my runkeeper page, 426km of comuting, not bad considering the weather, about 200km less then a average summer month!
Also I got my new backwheel last week, so now I dont get the “dunk-a-dunka” wibble wooble feeling when I ride, my old one moved about 1-2cm sideways and was shaped like a egg, there was also some loosness in the body aparently.
Anyway, come April with warm spring weather (hopefully), a baby any day now and in a week or two the new bike, exciting times ahead!
Woho, my Occano bike just got home, it now has a new black rear wheel (with a non-matching white front wheel), it’s starting to look ghetto!
Anyhow, yesterday was actually a fairly good bike day, apart from the whole back wheel moving in all directions at once and not really rolling well, a map then, for the home trip (trip from work to the LBS):
Oh and I guess it’s worth noting, this is probably one of my last week commuting on this piece of crap bike, due date for our daughter is on Tuesday, so hopefully after 10 days of daddy leave I’ll have my poison.
So, me and some friends were talking about a bike ride this summer, and what do you know, “The old kings road” came up, for those of you fluent in finish, read more HERE.(google translate)
For those of you not fluent, here is the low down, it’s a old postal road or something, from Turku (Åbo for swedes) to Helsinki:
The plan is do go first from Turku to Tammisaari, spend the evening/night there, and the next day pedal to Helsinki!
So after much cursing and complaining about my old bike (the Occano U310 from stadium) I decided to get myself something new.
First I was thinking about a racer, maybe italian, like Bianchi, but since I’m fat and like gravel and winter biking (I say like, but I mean there is gravel on my way to work and I’m trying to be a good bike citizen during winter) I started looking at cyclocross.
First I started looking at Corratec and Ridley (105 Disc and X-bow 105 disc), price wise in the same range, available at my L(-ish)BS, but the more I looked the more I saw the light, none of my really close LBS had anything I liked.
Queue now, the euro is fairly cheap compared to the SEK, germany and UK are more or less overflowing with online bike stores (Chain reaction, Wiggle, Rose etc).
Some more research and I found the Boardman CX team and the Van Dessel Gin and Trombone at Wiggle, bad news, not available in my size.
Oh well, I found what I was looking for over at poison bikes, the Poison Opium XI disc.
I went for the one with SRAM Apex white groupset, as the idea of double tap sounds so much better then the shimano 105. Color choice is light blue and it’ll look something like this when it’s done:
So, order was placed last week, total cost roughly 1350€ and delivery will be in about 4 weeks! *ICANTWAIT!*