I have a new bike!
Alison gave it to me as a belated birthday present and yesterday I could pick it up. And on my first day of cycling I already had my first flat. The hole was easily fixed so it wasn’t too much of a deal. But I’ve never had a flat on my old bike, and I cycled a lot on it.
I needed a new bike because the old bike was actually a children’s bike and had very short cranks (the metal bars where the pedals are attached to). These short cranks caused my knees to hurt and so I didn’t bike very much anymore. I bought that bike the day after the day I arrived in Montréal, before I even had decided that I was going to move here. So I just went for a cheap second hand bike and didn’t even notice the short cranks. I actually only noticed them when my bicycle repairman told me, after I had spend $80 on a new chain and new gears…
The new bike is, apart from the flat, really nice and rides very smooth. It has too many gears, suspension on the front to tackle the big holes in the roads and a rack so I can take some luggage. I hope it doesn’t get stolen. I have a couple of locks on it, but although the situation isn’t as bad as in the Netherlands, bicycle theft is a growing problem in Montréal.
May 4 2005
Bike
I have a new bike!
Alison gave it to me as a belated birthday present and yesterday I could pick it up. And on my first day of cycling I already had my first flat. The hole was easily fixed so it wasn’t too much of a deal. But I’ve never had a flat on my old bike, and I cycled a lot on it.
I needed a new bike because the old bike was actually a children’s bike and had very short cranks (the metal bars where the pedals are attached to). These short cranks caused my knees to hurt and so I didn’t bike very much anymore. I bought that bike the day after the day I arrived in Montréal, before I even had decided that I was going to move here. So I just went for a cheap second hand bike and didn’t even notice the short cranks. I actually only noticed them when my bicycle repairman told me, after I had spend $80 on a new chain and new gears…
The new bike is, apart from the flat, really nice and rides very smooth. It has too many gears, suspension on the front to tackle the big holes in the roads and a rack so I can take some luggage. I hope it doesn’t get stolen. I have a couple of locks on it, but although the situation isn’t as bad as in the Netherlands, bicycle theft is a growing problem in Montréal.
By mare • english •