The hunt for Red Octobe... Green Cannondale

In 2015 I started doing something I never thought I would do, I started road cycling. I have always thought of road cycling as a very uncomfortable way to get yourself from point A to point B. But an article about comfort road bikes changed my mind.

So I bought an ordinary Trek in the late autumn of 2014. The bike was white and red and looked pretty cool I thought. So in the spring of 2015 I started testing my new road machine and found it was a bliss! Even the slightest touch to the pedal propelled the bike forward at a speed I had never encountered before, but considering all my other bikes are old oma fiets or cargo bikes I should have guessed this.

So for the last spring, summer and autumn I took some trips in the country side and felt the wind on my hairy legs. Lucky for me winter cam very late that year so it was pleasant to ride in lycra even until early november.

Then came winter and no more road biking, but since I bike everywhere and every time I wasn't too disappointed, but I had a nagging feeling none the less. So me and my partner booked a trip to Gran Canaria and since I was there why not rent a road bike and go test some hills. So I rented a green Cannondale through Free Motion, it was beautiful! Just about the right shade of green (there are like 50 shades of green that are butt ugly, and 50 shades that are gorgeous, so you know what kind fascist I am when it comes to the color green), carbon frame, Di2 gears and comfy 28 mm tires. Way over my league but when it comes to what I need and what I can afford (and this proved to be a huge mistake).

On Gran Canaria

Of course I fell in love with the bike, the moment I sat on the bike I knew this was the bike for me, the size, the handling, the bars, the feeling, the greenness.. Everything was right, at it was at about this moment I realised I had to get one, and a moment later a chill went down my spine when I was thrown back to reality and what such a bike could cost.

Of course you need matching shoes

So after a month of debating with myself I bought the bike from Free Motion and got it delivered a month later or so, and wow what a bike. During 2016 I have biked some 500km on Green Danger, kinda okay considering all the other things that has happened in my life during this year =)

We'll see what kind of adventure me and the bike comes up with this year, the Fred Witton challenge looks awesome =)