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Well, here goes...........
I couldn't sleep very well last night, so I got up and cleaned my bike. Still couldn't sleep, so I thought,
"why not go for a ride, and since the roads are quiet.....do it fixed"...
Out I went, at 2am this morning, fixed. Never done it before. I sucked.
I couldn't engage my clips, so rode with my feet on the wrong side of the pedals. Braking was more of an effort than I thought, but I persevered. Still, I didn't get the hang of it.
After an hour of failure, I came back home and went to bed. 3 hours later (6am) I was up and getting ready for work. I'll have to try again, and maybe again, and again, and again.
I'm crap. I'll have to accept that for now. Good thing I wasn't spotted.