My life on eBay
Cathy agreed to my buying myself a motorbike recently, but there was a condition attached. I had to fund it from the sale of other "toys" rather than from our savings. As a result I have been eBaying old "toys" like a man possessed for the last month or so.
This is a shot from the latest of my listings - my first proper road racing bike, which I bought in 2010. It featured brakes gears and pedal cranks designed by the Italian Campagnolo company. They make beautifully elegant items, as I think you can see from this close up of the rear brake.
I've not ridden it in anger for about 4 years as (in the way of these things) I moved on to a faster lighter (but perhaps less pretty) bike a few years later. In the interim it has been relegated to the turbo trainer in the garage, where it has taken on the roll of torturer's apprentice. Riding a bicycle on the road is a joy, sitting in a garage pounding away on a bike shackled to a turbo trainer is my idea of hell... and therefore not something I've done as often as I should have!
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