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@BringMeMyFix
Fucking Garmin dumped my ride (and the correct time) when I 'overzealously turned it off'.
Anyway, I tested my 'Reservoir Dogleg' ride today, setting off at 6.30am to beat the heat and the traffic, and heading out into the headwind until I got a little bit beyond Hanningfield Reservoir. I took the Tixie-Fixie-Wixie on 79". That part of Essex can be a little non-descript, but of course it looked very pleasant this morning. Saw quite a few clubruns just starting out as I got back towards the Epping Road again, by which point my 2 bottles were nearly empty and the heat was starting to, erm, hot up. I don't really like anything over 20 degrees. Celtic blood and all that. The reservoir looked nice on the 200m stretch of road where you can actually see the fucking thing.
Also decided I would definitely ride past Hackney Downs Station on the way back, just to exorcise any latent demons after the PHV wiped me out there a few weeks back. There was no drama. The only near miss this time was a rabbit near Blackmore which came within inches of becoming diced rabbit in my bladed spokes.
Did spot the stats as I saved the ride, before the fucking machine then lost it. 81 miles in 3h58, so 20.4mph moving average. Did smash it a bit with the predominantly tailwind between East Hanningfield and Theydon Bois. Kind of wish I'd jumped on the train at Chingford, but then it's a rock/hard place situation: boiling carriage leaping up and down to move bike or whatever vs. the done-it-a-million-times shlep through Waltham Forest & Hackney.
In other good news:
i) I fixed the fucking creak my Burls has been making since puncheuring it up Highgate West Hill a few weeks ago: toothbrush clean of seatpost bolts + regrease; general clean of clamping area; removed metal shim/sleeve from seat-tube + cleaned + regreased; same kind of thing with seatcollar; epoxy putty around nose/rail interface where there was too much play (though that wasn't the big creak).
ii) There will be a large quantity of pizza and wine consumed this evening.