... my Christmas bicycle has a replacement fork and I was able to go for a ride Have to say it feels weird - brakes, shifters and bars are very different to my old bike, which I hadn't been on for nine years anyway, and I'm having to re-learn how cleats work Even getting on and off was nerve-wracking The bike is so light though and it's been properly fitted I think it will be awesome once I get beyond the sore butt, sore hands, worried about falling off stage It's pretty too Never occurred to me to make my old bike pretty but after seeing all the bike pics on here I've tarted it up a bit

So yesterday's ride was 10k on the flat, with heaps of stops to practice clipping and unclipping and lots of random shifting. It's a start