first ride in London

I bought a bike yesterday a Specialised Secteur and today, other than riding the bike home from the bike shop, I went for my first London ride.

Trip was from Home (Balham) towards London and then through Clapham Junction and back to Balham. Overall, I was out for about 40 minutes.

It is going to be interesting riding here. Perth you dont know how lucky you are. the roads are narrow, the roads are generally quite poor in quality and there are masses of cars (think Stirling Hwy near Fremantle or Gt Eastern Hwy through Belmont at peak hour).

My polar heart rate monitor wondered whether to send for an ambulance or not and i am sure my legs are going to protest tomorrow but it was fantastic to be out and about for the first time in six months.

I think i am going to need a Bike GPS. Tom Tom in the back pocket doesnt work.

the ideas is to ride to work, between 35=45 mins depending on traffic, but if riding around with Sunday traffic is anything to go on weekday traffic could be mental.

the bike - it was comfortable once i got the seat height right and the gear range was good for someone getting back on a bike after 6 months. At 50+ i am not going to be racing, but i managed to get this bike rolling along quite nicely on a couple occasions

more rides next weekend but not much in the week as i am off to Manchester and Derby during the week.