The show was HUGE!! Complete with mountain bike test track, which just had to be tried out! Apologies to my MTB mates, but while I tried out one of Ironhorse’s top duallies, I'm still a bit cold towards a dual suspension bike...
Speaking of riding, I’ve now done two rides through the local areas, and lets just say that those double decker busses are much larger when there’s only a few inches between you, them and the gutter!! Great fun though, weaving through the traffic, and I’ll certainly improve my road riding and bike handling skills on the streets of London! But, I digress...
The rest of the show was great and while we arrived at around 10am - with the intention of having lunch somewhere near Covent Garden at around midday - we left at around 6ish. Naturally, we were laden with freebies (Including 2 tubs of High5 Energy and Recovery products!) and information about places to ride, where to ride, shop locations, as well as dozens of European biking destinations for holidays, training camps, tours & challenge events, and mixtures of all these. The MTB scene is much larger than I realised and also goes on throughout winter, so even though I've no idea where I'll put it, I reckon I'll be shipping the mountain bike over shortly!
No doubt I’m about to receive a tonne of junk mail after entering loads of competitions, but who knows, some of it may well be worthwhile even if we don’t have a wheelie bin for rubbish collection yet. (must admit that our neighbours seem to accumulate a lot more rubbish that I’d expect!)
Thankfully, I didn’t have all that much cash on me, nor a better credit card, otherwise I may well have left there needing a van to get some very nice bikes home!!
This one's from Fixie Inc. - A lovely classic single speed, which if I had the money...
1 comment:
Good words.
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