Pictures taken here http://goo.gl/maps/o2YuS
I was wanting to do something about my appalling level of fitness, walking is boring, boring, boring, going to the gym is dul, dull, dull, there are no swimming pools near enough to make a regular trip to, so I was thinking maybe break out the pushbike and have a look round all the back roads here. Trouble was, riding my bike hurt my back so last time my brother (a keen cyclist) was here I was hoping he'd help me set it up better but he took one look at it and condemned it as being too small. Eh? I thought a bike was a bike, I didn't realise they come in sizes. So I checked it out, my old bike (which is almost an antique and made out of two bikes, one of which I found in a skip
) is a large, so it looked like I was going to have to go for an XL. I was trying to get one via Goran (fell off the back of a lorry sir) but in the end I realised whatever he came up with I'd be stuck with, whether I fitted it or not, so I bit the bullet and went to the bike shop in town here. This be the bike http://www.proteajaska.com/index.php?ka ... parent=286# More-or-less anyway, I spent a while with the guy trying bikes of different sizes and he had to put this one together for me. I had mentioned how many people here ride at night with no lights or reflectors and I guess he went a bit loopy with them... Pfft, be safe, be seen and all that.Anyway, the moment I got it the weather changed for the worst and it snowed. I was tempted to take it out the moment they cleared the roads but I talked to my bro and we figured out that it would be an umpleasant first experience of the bike and if I found a patch of ice I'd wish I'd stayed at home. So the pictures were taken on the first clear day where it was above freezing, didn't look like rain and I hadn't woken up with a headache doe to the changes in the weather.
I went from Cvetković here to the next village, which is Domagović, and back via the unmettled road that joins the two. Cars use it as a rat run so it's a mass of potholes in places. Actually, http://goo.gl/maps/lVufU Google says that's a round trip of 5.6km (what do you want from me?) but I found I actually had some energy left as I got back to the tarmac in Cvetković so I rode as fast as I could for the remainder, and arrived home feeling both like death and really pleased with myself.
I haven't had another chance since, I wanted to go yesterday but, by the time I'd sorted this, that and the other out it was getting dark. I have lights but...
The forecast today is for rain but if it doesn't happen I'll go again this afternoon. I was thinking to see where those other roads go and maybe see if I could get to the next village the other way, Čabdin, although I'm worried I might get lost. Or would that be a good thing? 
) as he didn't like the idea of bleeding hydraulics* and that, he says they're much, much better than they were now anyway.
it's one of their better models and was ridiculously cheap (£89.00 down from an 'alleged' £200.00, yeah right) to be fair it's certainly not a 'cheapo' bike it's ok really. I has disc braking up front but V-Brakes on the back, front a rear sussy which just about does something. 
and that was before my 12th Birthday. I must have done at least 3000 miles in my time.
It turns out my brother and two of his mates decided to ride down Barn Hill on it, they were drunk of course, and it broke. After that I had a moped with no engine (my parents were brassic for most of my yoof) I didn't go far on that because it weighed a tonne. I didn't have another until I got the original of this one (I think the wheels and gears came from it, the rest from the skippy) when I was about 20. Not much of a cyclist I'm afraid. My brother, on the other hand, has always had bikes and used to ride too and from work on a Daws Red Feather racing bike.
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