It was another nice day today. Shame I spent most of the daylight hours (5pm = darkness) inside on the computer. Let’s just call it “training for work” and leave it at that.

Riding to the shops for some supplies (spuds, cordial and bread – I managed to avoid buying chocolate) a bright green bike crossed my path. It wasn’t so much that the bike was bright green, rather, the neon-light tubing that was wrapped around it glowed bright green. I rounded the corner and caught up.

Carefully attached along most of the frame, from the rear rack to the headtube, was bright green lighting. It looked awesome! If anyone managed to knock this guy of his bike and claim “Sorry mate I didn’t see you” they should immediately have their license revoked (after a good head-kicking, of course).

At the lights I commented to the rider on his cool lighting setup, he acknowledged and then I split from the scene, gangster movie style. Really I just turned the corner, but writing “split from the scene” reminded me of a gangster movie.

I’ve fitted the GT with the new saddle I bought from probikekit. It’s a Selle San Marco Concor Light. I don’t know why it’s called “Light” – it’d only be “light” if you were to compare it with a well-built leather armchair. I bought it because the GT’s original saddle was bent and I suspected it was causing my knee troubles on longer rides. It was only 8quid. I’m not sure we are going to work out, unfortunately. The GT saddle was quite good, ‘very’ good when you consider it was ’95 factory-issue. It was flat and perhaps a bit wider than a Flite road saddle. The San Marco is much skinnier, shorter and instead of being flat it curves up at the back. Looks like I’m going to have to shell out a bunch of quidage for an “old faithful” Selle Italia Flite. I’d still like to try the Fizik Arione or perhaps the wider, heavier version of the Flite, the Max Flite, but all this saddle testing gets expensive.

Was carefully watching an auction of a Peugeot Offensiv fitted with Campagnolo Mirage groupset. Same model frame as my race bike but a couple of years older, with less kays on the clock, alu rather than carbon fork and low-end Campag groupset rather than Ultegra. Would’ve been a nice pickup but unfortunately it just cracked the 200quid mark and I don’t want to spend this much unless I actually have UKP in the bank. Double pity because the roller racing league I found requires riders use their own bikes. Doh!

Guess I should go and iron my work shirt. Eeew.. iron a work shirt.. iron..a..work..shirt.. what an ugly phrase!