A new bike
I’m not sure whether two new bikes inside a year means that I’m out of control, or whether upgraditis had just been building up for so long that it had to come out somewhere.
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Sonix the Harohog
So I’ll now own five functioning bikes. Hmmm, maybe there is a slight problem there.
- Haro Sonix Werx dual-suspension mountain bike
- Enigma Echo titanium-framed road bike (with most of a Campag Record groupset)
- Custom-made Frezoni steel-framed road bike
- Gary Fisher Tassajara hard-tail aluminium-framed mountain bike (now looks to be in very used condition, it must be said)
- A blue steel-framed bike which was once a Shogun Alpine GT touring bike, but is currently a single speed flat-bar road bike for riding from BQ office into the City and back.
The first two are the first choice machines for their particular purposes. The Frezoni is there for when the Enigma has to go into the shop for servicing … you can’t be without a road bike for days at a time.
I’m not sure yet what the future holds for the Gary Fisher. Sensible suggestions or offers considered.
Giro contenders all a bit sus
After a storming time trial, Denis Menchov leads the Giro d’Italia. Danilo Di Luca has been stomping and storming a bit himself, and he’s still second.
Levi Leipheimer has moved up into third, and the winner will come from this trio. There’s no one further down the list who has shown the dynamism needed to create big time gaps on the mountain stages later in the race. Di Luca is the only one who has looked like breaking up the field in the high mountains.
Sliding out of contention again in, but this time in a time trial, was Mick Rogers, the Australian former world time-trial champ. His ride was at least believable, in the same way as Cadel’s work each year in the Tour.
It’s so sad that any rider who seems to dominating all the others is suspected of being chemically enhanced.
At least Menchov and Leipheimer have had good form all season, and its no surprise that they are challenging for the win. Di Luca seems to me too strong to be true. I hope I’m wrong. I hope that not only does Di Luca never fail a drug test, but that he also hasn’t been taking banned substances. But 15 years of watching the pro peloton tells me otherwise.