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A bike, some hills and a vomit

February 6, 2009 on 4:02 pm | In Getting started | 3 Comments

I had been making good progress with my planning so far. My route planning was coming together well, I had a couple of different options heading north, depending on wind and weather. People were getting in touch with me with all kinds of advice. What to take, where to go, when to leave. So far I wasn’t hearing anything discouraging.

The next step was to organise a bike. “That should be easy.” I thought, it needs to have two wheels, some gears, and a bell? I had been told I need a really comfortable seat so I should get one of those. To be honest I didn’t really know what I should get, so I decided to test the mettle of some bike shops. I was feeling buoyant, and excited about having committed to my goal. The first shop I visited, I took it back to basics, I wanted to know everything I would possibly need to know. I wasn’t sure what a bike salesman would be like, so I went in guns blazing.

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