The countdown moves forward....

Hello!

So today I went to look at what I hoped was gonna be my new bike. I say hoped because it was being sold online by a guy who live quite a long way from me and, ever cautious I figured Better safe than sorry and off I went to check it out.

So I jump in the car and, with a few quid in one hand to leave a deposit, and tape measure in the other hand to check the head tube length and confirm size, since the sticker had been removed, head south for about 3hours.

And yay! the guy was on the level and yes the bike was there as advertised and it is a large frame so all is good.

Money changed hands and I have had a quick spin round the street ... so the new steed will be coming home to the north on or very shortly after the 14th of October...

On the drive home I was pondering a name but as ever these things tend to come out the first few rides.

Proper chuffed to be getting back in the saddle and really looking forward to hitting the local trails again to see how this bike feels compared to Johnny 5.

23 days and counting ,.,,

😀😀😀

Stay tuned ..
Sarah

Returning to the beginning...

Hello!

It's been a very very very long time since I wrote a few lines this here blog. The stubbornly optimistic one has a few more recent scribblings on it, and the optimisticality website keeps me busy these days.

However.. since I was last here quite a lot has happened.

SnS training is no more, and I've moved very much into the academic advocacy and political fields. I'm starting a masters course at my old uni (Sunderland) and very much looking forward to that. A lot has happened in the time since my last few scribbles here, but to summarise:

Firstly: I had to sell my Trusty T130.. and "Jonny 5" is now doing sterling service north of the border in Scotland for his new keeper.

Secondly: Having stopped riding due to other commitments, age and injury, and also simultaneously not running due to impact on knees, the inevitable happened.. I put weight on and got out of condition. (go figure)

However, things go full circle in life and I am in the middle of planning to get my paws on a new steed that I'm pretty excited about. I'm gonna keep the exact bike under wraps for a bit but I've never owned one quite like this and it should be interesting to ride the tracks that Jonny 5 and I put some strava times into and see where the comparisons are.

I also have my old classic retro build sitting in the house that just needs little bit of TLC for those more nostalgic rides.

My heckler x 1997 build. 

Sadly I had to move house unexpectedly and as a result I lost the awesome workshop and other classic frames I had acquired as part of my plans to create and film future projects, but life is for living, not collecting regrets, so all we can do is pedal onwards...

I of course plan to keep you guys up dated on how life goes and the ups and downs of riding again ...

The count down has begun ... I wonder where the trail may take me this time?

stay tuned !