Lysterfield

A video of me and a friend of mine doing the Commonwealth Games track at Lysterfield

Bike Maintenance

Today is my bike maintenance day. A day where I dedicate spending a large portion on my day on maintaining my two bicycles. The main bike that I ride is a Repco Olympic road bike which is in a stylish yellow colour with a Shimano Sora Groupset.  This bike was bought from ebay at $256. I feel as if it was a good price to pay but to be honest, I do not know that much about bikes to be making that kind of call, but it feels like a good price. A few minor issues with the bike was that it was really really dirty and grimey, I had to spend at least 2 hours cleaning the chain, cassette, rear derailer and wiping down the entire bike. Another issue is that the gears or the shifters don’t always work or need to be pressed really hard for a gear change to register not to mention that a few gears in the middle just won’t bite in. But all in all, i’m fairly happy with the bike. It rides like a dream.

My mountain bike is the bike I ride with my family as I do not need to go very fast. This is the first bike I bought brand new and it cost me $320. So my road bike cost more then my mountain bike which is not normally the case. After a good cleaning this bike is a dream ot ride.

Although now that I’ve been bitten by the bike bug, I am now looking into accessories like panniers so that I do not need to carry a bag, cycling computers, cycling vest and knicks as well as shoes. I think the next upgrade to my bike will be cycling shoes. Although I don’t like the idea of having to carry around two sets of shoes everywhere.

Long story short, I need another house for my bikes.