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Took this out for its first "proper" ride this year, actually both its and my own first decent length ride since last time I posted here. (And that had a long stop in the middle so I don't know if it counts as one long ride or just two medium ones.)
Due to this I am now even more unfit, I walked up the steepest bit of a hill I remember riding up on harder gearing sometime last spring.
But it was a good day on the bike, highlights including getting caught in a fast paceline of randoms on the way out - parts of Tokyo I've never ridden through before - plum blosssums out in the hills and by the rivers - roadworks gone and no cars on the big descent - beer stop in Yokohama - figuring out a new and better route home.
Other than being slow af the only negative was that for some reason I can't get these tires to hold air. They go flat after sitting for a couple of days and yesterday they got soft enough to affect cornering after around 6 hours.
The only thing I can think of is that the sealant I use doesn't agree with them, but I'm sure they weren't this bad when I first built the bike.
Anyway I'm planning a few long/tough rides starting from the middle of April so I have until then to fix both these problems.
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