Took the Exile out for a quick ride, about an hour or so. There was this one really fun section by the waterfront which hadn’t been plowed all winter. It was half-melted ice and slush full of deep footprints and shit. I was fish-tailing like crazy and was pedaling against nothing half the time.
People were staring at me like I was crazy or something!
I just impulse bought my bike yet another set of wheels, a 36 hole 9 speed ultegra-MA2 set for £32. I will combine the rear wheel from this set with my new 32 hole Shimano generator hub-MA2 wheel, and sell off all my other wheel stuff on the 'bay.
I rode the same 25 miles I did yesterday almost 10 minutes faster in heavy winds. I rode into the wind the first 10 miles with a lot of climbing then got a nice push all the way home on some flat road (110 Lowell/Dracut/Methuen) along the Merrimack river.
[quote=“bward1028”]'98 trek 930. handmade, triple butted OX steel. Brand new, for $150 and a 40 min drive each way.
it’s dark outside, or i would take a picture.[/quote]
nice. i looked at that on HVCL after you posted in ‘worth it.’ definitely looked worth it.
I stayed above that place for a few days last summer. We lolled the whole time we were there. Kind of pricey though.[/quote]
Yeah, but so is everything else in this fucking city. =/