Had a lovely ride on Sunday. Marple over to Alderley Edge for a coffee and back again. New tyres and they are a dream! Continental GP4000s and without pushing, my average speed was 2-3mph quicker. I like these! :)

Went with my friend Kate to collect her new bike on Monday. A Cannondale carbon road bike and it is a bit yummy! I picked up a new saddlebag, a new Cateye rear light and some chain lube. (exciting eh?)

Unfortunately on the way home had rather a nasty car accident. Got pushed into the central reservation by a wandering tanker. So the car is off the road for a while to get it repaired and the suspension and steering checked out. I was lucky to walk away from it without a scratch although typing is a bit painful because my wrists took a hammering. When I hit the central reservation it blew out both offside tyres and thankfully I had both hands on the wheel so I managed to control the car, but both wrists got wrenched quite a bit.

Anyway, back to the bike...... I'll be off the bike for most of this week thanks to the above incident and letting my wrists and neck settle down so I spent some time yesterday doing some bike maintainance. Both of them cleaned top to bottom, chains scrubbed and freshly lubed.....almost a shame to go out and get them dirty...........nahhhhh! Can't wait to get back out there. :)

This is Tank, my old mountain bike. He gets used for local running around and riding Middlewood Way :)