Moping around, feeling sorry for myself. That's what today has in store for me. My cold is worse than it was the past couple of days and I don't suffer any slight illness well at all. If I've to suffer, I'll make the people round me suffer too. I'm very 'giving' that way.
It's not just illness making me a bit miserable though. I'm still waiting for this so-called proposed bike of mine (or at least news of it being ready for collection). As I'm sure I've mentioned elsewhere, I ordered it right at the start of June and am still awaiting news from the shop of it's completion. I know I couldn't get out on it with my current despicable state of health anyway (well, maybe a tiny little run on it) but I just want to have the bloody thing at last. It's like someone pushing Christmas back a month just for badness.
So far, I've already bought various bits and bobs for it (I'll eventually stick some pictures of them here to break up the prose a bit, if I can get this to work):
It's not just illness making me a bit miserable though. I'm still waiting for this so-called proposed bike of mine (or at least news of it being ready for collection). As I'm sure I've mentioned elsewhere, I ordered it right at the start of June and am still awaiting news from the shop of it's completion. I know I couldn't get out on it with my current despicable state of health anyway (well, maybe a tiny little run on it) but I just want to have the bloody thing at last. It's like someone pushing Christmas back a month just for badness.
So far, I've already bought various bits and bobs for it (I'll eventually stick some pictures of them here to break up the prose a bit, if I can get this to work):
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Cycle computer (Sigma Sport 'BC 1600', with cadence) 
Low-riders (Blackburn 'Custom', silver)
Low-rider bags (Karrimor 'Kalahari 35', black)
Mudguards (SKS 'P35', black)
Pedals (Shimano 'PD-A520', SPD)
Rear pannier bags (Karrimor 'Aquator', red)
Rear pannier rack (TorTec 'Ultralite', silver)
Hopefully I've made the right choices in my accoutrements and will not rue buying any of them.
It is rather frustrating not to have a bike to put this collection of attachments onto and sitting moping around the house only makes this more prominent in my thoughts. At least I'll have the Tour de France to watch and take my mind off it later. If I watch enough of it, I may even start to comprehend what's going on and learn the names of more than three riders.
It is rather frustrating not to have a bike to put this collection of attachments onto and sitting moping around the house only makes this more prominent in my thoughts. At least I'll have the Tour de France to watch and take my mind off it later. If I watch enough of it, I may even start to comprehend what's going on and learn the names of more than three riders.
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