Officially winter

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. You let your guard down for a half a minute and you end up with Winter. Nothing to do now but wait for three months and hope that if we play our cards right we get Spring. Time will tell. Winter welcomed us with another three degree morning. Thanks mate. Good to see you to.


Nice ride this morning out on the P5. One of the more solid I have had since getting the bike. Good to feel a bit more comfortable on it. It was quick to, which is always reassuring. I have encountered one of the limitations of this sort of bike though, it is a fair effort to adjust anything. I would really like to drop the handlebars by a spacer. But doing so involves disconnecting the brakes and gears, removing the respective cables, removing a spacer and then running all the gear and brake lines again. Something that is beyond the average home mechanic. Beyond me I daresay. You only have to get it right once, but getting it right can be a little bit of an ordeal.That sort of fiddling is going to have to wait until after Cairns I think.

I didn't go into this bike blind, I knew this sort of inconvenience would be the case. It doesn't stop it being any less frustrating though.

I had a very welcome package arrive yesterday. My new wetsuit finally arrived. I won this wetsuit in a random draw at the Murrayman in South Australia last year. It has taken a while to get my hands on it, but I finally managed yesterday. The wetsuit is a Xterra Vector X3 and at first impressions it seems good.

Xterra Vector X3

 I have had a quick try on and it seems to fit nicely, stretchy in the right areas etc. I will give the actual swimming a go tomorrow. I am pretty hopeful that is will be a good suit.