Current Projects chat and miscellany

"I've ridden brakeless, and I've ridden in the mountains. I'm not keen to combine the two, for a multitude of reasons. One stands out though - if you've just spent 1-2 hours climbing 2,000 metres up then surely going back down the other side, freewheeling at 80-100Km/h is your reward?

Not jetting liquid fear-faeces over the windscreen of following Punto's as you desperately attempt to scrub speed with tyre that's down to the threads as you approach another hairpin."

"This.

Even with two mechanical brakes on a fixed wheel bicycle, descending the Pyrenees was really agonising, especially when you couldn't put your weight on the pedals as you would on a freewheel bicycle, thus hand and arse have taken quite a beaten.

Still, the only reward I got was that I actually rode a fixed wheel down the pyrenees."

I totally agree. It's an insane idea altogether, but nevertheless that's exactly what we're going to do. I like to think of it as my "Little Red Corvette"; a midlife crisis project aimed at bringing some excitement back into our otherwise miserable lives.

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