Below Belief

… and bought a new bike.
Here it is:

A Genesis Day 01. Aluminium frame, Carbon fork and seat post (for a comfortable ride). It’s fast, light and has thin tyres. I was always after a mixture of things here – comfort for my daily commute but also light and fast. I felt it was the best combination of those things after test-riding a dozen or so different types.
I rode it home from Holborn (in around 40 minutes which tells me how much faster than the good old Brompton it is) and got a puncture in the last 100m… Good job I bought a pair of Kevlar flat-resistant tyres to go on it – and that was the afternoon sorted.
Anyway, pleased with my new bike but also a bit daunted by the rather more “aggressive” riding position I’ll now be adopting for work. Gone is the “eccentric, Brompton guy” and in is the “slightly too serious road biker”…

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