Peteybike

OK, I admit it. We spent weeks looking at specs, sizes, weights, equipment - and then Peter chose a Trek "because Lance rides one."

Bugger. The product placement worked. Don't you just hate that?

The upside is that it's actually quite good: not too heavy (no, Mr Salesman, kids' bikes don't have to be heavy to make them robust,, it's to keep them cheap!), a sus-fork (which I vowed we would not have, but makes only about 0.3kg difference) and double-drilled cranks.

It's also (again completely against my principles) fractionally too big for him. But by summer he will have grown into it and already he is OK riding it as long as we don;t try any big hills. 4.5 miles on the first day!

So here we are riding around in Swinley Forest testing the new Peteybike.





Bike supplied by Mountain High in Pangbourne. I prefer AW Cycles, but they dind't have the Trek in stock.

Incidentally, getting the brakes to work properly involved a complete strip, lube, rebuild and replacing the pads with Kool-Stop.