I finally got round to buying a bike this weekend (it's a Specialized Tricross for anyone that cares). I'm pretty pleased with it so far, although it looks a *little* bit girly with the front and back panier racks on. I've already clocked up 20km trying frantically to keep up with my brother on a little trek through the rat-runs of around North London yesterday, which nearly killed me.
We're planning a pedal-powered road trip down to Cornwall some time in May so I need to do a *lot* of training to get up to scratch since my exercise regime to date has consisted of, er, absolutely nothing, and we'll be aiming to do about 90-100km a day on the trip. Yikes.
Incidentally, if you run a small business there's a great tax scheme called "Cycle To Work" which lets you save about 35% off the cost of the bike by reclaiming the VAT and offsetting depreciation against corporation tax. You just need to have a half-arsed cover story about using the bike for travel to work - e.g. cycling to a train station qualifies.
That's what I've done, so I will now be literally riding the company bike every morning and evening :-).
Buttercream icing and piping.
Marzipan covering and modeling. This one got a bit bashed up on the back of my bike when I hit a couple of potholes so the penguins have a bit of a flat head. I might need to rethink my Friday morning transport arrangements...
