My first ride home on my new bike. An Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative Revolution Track '10. An interesting little bike, currently set up as a single speed but with the option to flip the hub to turn it into a fixed. She's geared at 71" or thereabouts and has brakes front and rear which is unusual on a pseudo track / fixie bike and 25mm tyres. At some point I'll put her on the scales.
I've not ridden a fast, skinny, tyred road bike since about 1981. The ride home was much more comfortable than I expected it to be with only one 'pull your arms out of their sockets' climb to remind me that I need to do some core / upper body strength work in the gym. The saddle, well it isn't a Brooks, and I thought it looked like an instrument of torture but 10 mins in and I forgot it was there. It will do for now.
It is a very light bike, by the standards of the Team Collins stable, and every ounce of energy put through the pedals, Shimano mtb spds by the way, not standard, seems to get translated into forward motion. Even in singlespeed mode there is an immediacy and directness to the drive which is very pleasing. It is quiet, almost silent, and once in motion all you hear is the wind in your ears, and the car drivers of mid-Sussex fluffing their overtakes as they try to do 20mph in 5th gear.
All in all a lovely job. Some really bad pictures taken with a phone camera and shaky hands show the details and best bits.
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