Time Machine
This morning I went over to LifecycleUK to see Rob, I was not on a mission to spend more money on my bike, in fact I was selling him some carrier bags!
But whilst I was there Rob called me into the back so show me something special, that is a bmc TT01 Time Trial frame. You will see one under Flloyd Landis tomorrow in the Tour de France prologue. Apperently that frame is the only one in the UK and is number 16 in the world!
Once built up this machine is heading off to the states were we hope it will be ridden in anger.
If only I could afford the £6k price tag would I then worry about what wheels to put on it!
Life Goes On
I’ve been back for two days now and and I’m struggling to get back into the groove.
Yesterday I was not really up to much so I spent the day trying to upload some photo’s of the trip and cleaning my bike.
Today I finally sat down at my desk (home version) to find a pile of post and an in-box full of emails. The main task for the day however was to finish of uploading the photo’s.
Lucy got a bit carried away with the camera and I’ve got around 900 photograph’s to upload; it has taken two days to get them all on Flickr!
I tried to get into the swing of things and replied to a few emails; thanks for those of support and well wishes, cleared out several hundred junk mails. But after an hour or so I was bored again so decided to take a trip to see Rob at Lifecycle. I needed to sort out my buckled wheel from the trip so enjoyed the escape.
Tomorrow I’ve got to return to work and so far I’m not looking forward to it, of course it will be good to get my teeth into something again but so far everything feels a bit slow motion compared to last week.
Core Bike Show
Yesterday afternoon was taken as a jolly. In other words work got the boot and I spent the time travelling to the Core Bike Show.
This event is a trade show for the major importers of all things cycling, so I had to take on the role of ‘Web Designer’ for LifecycleUK, despite the fact that Rob actually signed me up as office gimp! Matt (the only real employee of LifeCycle) was ‘Mechanic’.
Held in Birmingham it was a drive to the event, to which with my brand of clean safe fun passed as smoothly as well oiled milk. There was no downgrading talk or mention of anything below the belt of decency.
The show itself was very good, all the major players were there showing off the latest in carbon and ti. The show was smaller than expected and I was totally mis-lead by the talk of booth babe’s, unshaven Germans were the only people at the booths!
I think the most time was spent at the BMC stall staring at the new all carbon frame, I would just be happy with last years version with alu lugs. But then at £4,000 I’m really in position to say yes just yet.