Living Contentedly

After fitting my clipless pedals and headed to Paterson.  My speed was immediately faster and the body load was distributed more through my body more. At Pato I collected cycling glasses and a candle lantern and was disappointed to see I had only 6k on the Dura. The ride back was enjoyable within more speed on hills with no more physical stress.  Back at the forestation I realised the metering issue, was reading miles in place of kilometres. Total 20k.

For today's ride I parked up at Bunnings Heathbrae and got ready. While I was there a fellow, looking rough and driving a Lexus hit me up. I sussedthat he had a drug problem rather than a "left my credit card at home and need pertrol" problem. So I suggested he go to the pertrol station across the road and make an arrangement. Tellingly he said " no they won't help you". This tipped me off  to  a body on the outer of society. So I made my excuses. Soon after, a guy walking towards Bunnings with his girlfriend fell for it. As D&O thanked a guy in a nearby campervan tipped off the Donor that he'd just for had. This pissed Mr Downandout and he Camperman, calling him an "effing dog"  before going over and slapping him around. They went at it for a while, but it was mostly verbal with the odd slap, until they parted noisily. Mr D&O then drove off still yelling abuse at Camperman. A small group of onlookers, including myself, went over to off...

I chose the ghostgum bike shop because of a previous positive experience and because it was tiny and all about bikes.  The owner, who I later learned was John or Maizy was a bike but, a Sydney refugee of some standing and who owned most bikes on the shop. An on-trend "shopping bike" was prominently displayed. Steel framed, Brooks, swept bars and front rack, mudguards and tan sidewall city tyres. What I call a shopping bike, one you often see European bike nerds zipping along congested city streets to visit their favorite cafe or catch up with a mate. It was all new components and John said "too good to ride". Alpngaide, slightly lower on the stand, also with pedals removed for security reasons, was a Surly. It was a similar spec to the shopping bike though tougher looking. It could handle a trail, but only for a short run in dry conditions. Most components had been spec'ed up, Cube rear set, flashy rims and hot pink head bearing housings and swept ba...