Boardman Carbon Pro Air 2012
captainking
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It’s been forty eight years since I bought my first road bike with pocket money from a paper round, I think it was Dawes and at the age of twelve I went a little mad with a few friends and cycled to Southend along the A12 from Bethnal Green East London and got a earful when we got back
Now that I qualify for a free bus pass and my well used 20 year old Marin Bear Valley MB is getting a bit hard to ride on the road with its knobbly tyres I decided I needed a new bike.
For several years whilst watching the Tour De France on TV and holidaying in France I would see the many cyclists out in mass at weekends, I wouldn’t be able to keep up with my Marin so I didn’t try….Well, this year 2012, the year we smashed the Games with tremendous effort by Team GB it has given me even more umph! than usual to get out on my bike.
At the start of the TDF I ordered the Chris Boardman Carbon Pro Air, and what a bike. The Bike Hut mechanic who is a keen team cyclist in Barnsley South Yorkshire said it was a quick bike and he wasn’t kidding….WOW ! Well done Chris for great cycle….it eats up the road, it’s quick up the hills, my legs have as yet to catch up!
The bike is everything it say’s it is on the advertising
I am now looking forward to becoming a road cyclist instead of a spectator in our local area of Caussade SW France this September when normally I plod along the beautiful country roads admiring the views or cross country tracks…
This year I will be a blur as my 60 year old 10 stone 5’5” frame and a stunning Boardman bike races from town to town calling out a cheerful bonjour to folk in a Cockney accent and only stopping for a Coffee, I just hope the rain doesn’t follow me from Yorkshire.
Now that I qualify for a free bus pass and my well used 20 year old Marin Bear Valley MB is getting a bit hard to ride on the road with its knobbly tyres I decided I needed a new bike.
For several years whilst watching the Tour De France on TV and holidaying in France I would see the many cyclists out in mass at weekends, I wouldn’t be able to keep up with my Marin so I didn’t try….Well, this year 2012, the year we smashed the Games with tremendous effort by Team GB it has given me even more umph! than usual to get out on my bike.
At the start of the TDF I ordered the Chris Boardman Carbon Pro Air, and what a bike. The Bike Hut mechanic who is a keen team cyclist in Barnsley South Yorkshire said it was a quick bike and he wasn’t kidding….WOW ! Well done Chris for great cycle….it eats up the road, it’s quick up the hills, my legs have as yet to catch up!
The bike is everything it say’s it is on the advertising
I am now looking forward to becoming a road cyclist instead of a spectator in our local area of Caussade SW France this September when normally I plod along the beautiful country roads admiring the views or cross country tracks…
This year I will be a blur as my 60 year old 10 stone 5’5” frame and a stunning Boardman bike races from town to town calling out a cheerful bonjour to folk in a Cockney accent and only stopping for a Coffee, I just hope the rain doesn’t follow me from Yorkshire.
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