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@Hars
I'm diggin it!
I bought the black Coppi off Luke today at lunch and rode it home from the west end to Bow. A few notes over budget but it's absolutely what I have been looking for in terms of look so I'm in overdraft for a bit. :)
First impressions:
fuck it's fast. I mean really. Soooo much different to my old mountain bike. I picked it up and got such a surprise at how light it was. What was quite funny I reckon was overtaking most other bikes on the road without much effort. Once you get the speed and momentum up it kinda sticks and you can power on through.
it was a bit strange at first with my first instinct to coast but I just kept saying in my head "pedal, pedal, pedal" the whole ride home and by the end of it I was pretty used to it. Bus swerved in front of me: "pedal pedal pedal". Black tin can uturner pulling out: "pedal pedal pedal".
it's taxing as hell. I had to stop for a bottle of water half way through the ride drenched in sweat. hehe. I brought the bike into the shop with me which pissed off the dude behind the counter but with no lock there was no way it was leaving my grasp.
I did strike my pedal on the curb once but was going so slow it was a non issue, freaked me out a little bit and I'm glad it happened because now I am a lot more aware of it.
Stopping was interesting. It has a front brake which I don't intend to take off but pedalling and stopping was a pretty weird experience. I did try as much as possible to at least slow down using my feet and that seemed to work pretty well. Haven't tried a skid yet, will leave that for the park tomorrow.
There were some surprisingly courteous drivers on the road today (must be the brief bit of sun?). They were letting me in and keeping their distance when I was overtaking busses etc which was cool. I'm sure that will change though.
All in all, I'm really stoked!!!!!