Test ride today was a success!!!

Had a very good ride today with all my new alterations and nothing fell off !!
I headed north to farm country after a little warm up in the Marsh , up the 5th Sideroad to the 9th Line and today as I passed Pete’s house low and behold Pete was actually there!!! , so I stopped and chatted for a while , he gave me some good routes to take for hill climbing which I plan to investigate one day soon. From there I headed west to do some climbing on the hills around Beeton coming back along the 5th Line .

70 km all together today!!! , that put me over the 500 km mark so one quarter of the training is in the bag !!! , not bad. I felt pretty good for all but the last 5 km when I started to get a little leg weary. The country side up there is a lot greener then the last time I was up there , I took the camera with me and took a couple of shots .

So all in all everything worked just fine and the big surprise is the Brooks saddle, I was a bit skeptical about it but it turned out to be very comfy. My patched up mirror actually held much to my surprise, I still have to try the helmet mirror. I tried putting it on yesterday but it’s not all that easy to figure out the ideal placement. Bob I might have to wait till you are over to help me with that.

 
This is the stretch of the 5th Line I call pothole hell , they’ve filled some in but that really doesn’t help that much as it creates speed bumps instead.