Having been asked to come out for a ride with my friends Graeme & Damon yesterday, I felt a renewed interest in bike riding. I am wondering if yesterdays ride was a bit of a 'trick' because the guys had been scheming... looking for way to get me back on my bike(s) for weeks.

I guess it worked.

Having enjoyed the 'easy' 10km ride yesterday (they were running), i decided it was time to start using my bike to go to work as I have done previously. After all, its only about 2.5 km!

I took my trusty Kojima K3000 out this morning but then decided to be a little more adventurous after lunch. I dusted off my Specialized Demo 9, put some air in the tires (it had been unused for over a year!) and rode back to work.... twice (had to come home for something ;-).

Any 'hard core' Mountain Bikers or DH'ers out there would probably cringe at the thought of me riding an amazing piece of engineering like the Demo around town, but hey, that's the truth of it... What can I say?

After work, I was sufficiently inspired to get out my Giant OCR Zero (road bike) and take that for a spin too. I wasn't going to go far... It was almost dark and I hadn't used this bike for over 4 months.

Some stats....

Mountain Bikes:
Total Distance :15 km

Giant OCR Zero:
Total Distance: 14.5 km
Average Speed: 25.2 km/h
Maximum Speed: 33.1 km/h
Trip Time: 34:36

Nothing Earth shattering..... but its a start.