Three thousand miles per gallon

Per gallon ‘of what’ I’m not entirely sure – it’s just a quote I saw while looking at reviews for which bike to buy, and it stuck like in my brain.

Anyway, last weekend I bought myself a new toy, a shiny new Kona Blast 08 mountain bike…

According to the reviews, an awesome bike for the price which I wholeheartedly intend to ride at breakneck speeds down long, steep mountains trails while jumping over streams and hopping over logs as big as cars, just like on Kickstart, but without the engines or necessary skill.

Due to a mix-up at Evans Cycles I ended up with a 19″ bike which was way too big for me so I had to wait a week to take it back and get a 17″ which is, I’m happy to report, a perfect fit. I picked the 17″ up this weekend and and went for my first bicycle ride in probably 15 years, and probably the first bit of real exercise I’ve done in all that time too. My legs (and back, arms, head and hands) ache but I know that one day, soon hopefully, I will feel the benefit.

The plan is to ride every evening and weekend and generally spend time having fun doing something other than looking at a monitor and moving a mouse around my desk.

So far, so good – except the weather, which seems to start raining each time I even think about going outside.