BIKE!

I got the bike last week! XD It's awesome. I love having suspension in the seat - my bum doesn't get sore when I ride :-p I also got a rack and mudguards, and my fiancé's family have let me use some of their old panniers until I have a few more pay cheques and get my own. Today I got a car rack so that I can take the bike places more easily (if I'm going to ride it at work in the mornings, it'll make my life a lot easier to not have to be removing the front wheel and getting it in the back seat without breaking the mudguards), a converter bar thingy so that I can hang it off the rack, and I got a drink bottle with a cap over the mouthpiece so I don't get dust all over it.

My fiancé is looking at having his bike serviced properly so that we can cycle together. With the bike rack, it means that we can go cycling in places which would otherwise be too far away or too difficult (at least to start with), and one of the things we're looking at doing is taking one of the bike trails into the city centre. I'm also hoping for picnics, which is where the panniers come in handy :-)

I've also figured out a reasonably simple and flat-ish route for getting to his house, which means that I'm going to save a bit of fuel over the next several months :-p I plan to cycle to his place as much as possible, as it's only 15min, so I'm saving my health AND saving the planet! =D


This summer will be awesome =D I'm finally going to really get to do stuff that I've been dreaming about doing for years. It'll be the Best Summer EVER! XD