Maybe this will best be presented as a timeline! It's been a jam packed 12 months and there is so much to say about the 12,000 km's of riding I have done in it! I will try to keep it brief and provide links to pages that more fully describe the event where I have them. If you have been reading my blog you may already know that I started riding on the 11th August 2011 after some maybe 38 years of not riding. I had been training to run my first marathon when my knee collapsed and Lynn, my dear wife, convinced me to buy a bike. As usual, I procrastinated but she was having nothing of it and dragged me to many bike shops looking for a suitably priced bike. Not wanting to spend much over $1,000 limited us on options but I eventually settled on an EMC 2.6 with Tiagra drive train. That was not to be as Lynn felt I would be better off with the more durable drive train on the EMC 2.4 with Shimano 105, so that is what it was to be. That is where this particular journey begins....[...READ MORE...]...