Thursday saw me make a return to the AVP fold with a social 25ish mile saunter through the Devon lanes under a brilliant blue sky. Having just returned from my
Mont Ventoux adventure, I was expecting to eat up the hills without trouble and I certainly had my fill tonight.
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| Riding in the AVP peloton |
After 2 years of cycling the local roads, there are very few which I've not covered with the AVP; only my poor memory continues to make for an interesting cycle! Thursday's ride, however, saw Tigger leading us down paths we'd not travelled before on a highly enjoyable if not lumpy ride. With over 2k ft of climb, many of the hills in excess of a 10% gradient, I was glad to be riding my Ventoux busting
Roubaix, its gearing so very well suited to these hilly and bumpy lanes.
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| AVP'ers and our pink member under the viaduct arches |
I was not out riding my new
Tarmac, not due to the hills, but because I think its bottom bracket bearings have gone! After less than only 600 miles, I am not best pleased to be following in the footsteps of my previous two bikes, in having to return to the Bike Shed for a warranty repair. I'll keep you posted on what they find, indeed I may be wrong and it may be something less major. If a strip down and new bearings are required, I'm tempted to get the
FSA components swapped out for a compact
Shimano chainset.
Specialized have recently been using
FSA (
Full Speed Ahead) components in place of Shimano on some of their high end bikes, I have no idea why, may be cost. Back in March this year, Mark Cavendish
caused a crash in Terrino following his chain slipping off the big cog, something my Tarmac was doing for many of my early rides. May be he too lost confidence in FSA as he was then
spotted in May riding with a Shimano chainset!
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