Enthusiastic readers of my blog (if there are any?) noticed in my last blog entry that I had a bit of an accident with my trusty RockRider bike. So, for this reason, and due to unrelenting pressure from my fellow mountain bikers, I decided to get a new bike at Chulanka - and ended up with a GT-branded bike, which our bike expert D.B. confirms should do the job (proper fork, suspension, disk brakes and so forth).
So, this unfortunately slightly cloudy Sunday, I decided to try it out with Phlippe and the aforementioned D.B. (who still doesn't want me to use his full name on the blog - hence the cryptic acronym). We started at Philippe's place in Les Adrets, from where we biked uphill to the next village, Saint-Jean de Cannes, from where the "real trek started".
The bike ride took us through some pretty rough terrain (even had to carry the bike from time to time), up to the Col des Trois Termes (the name suggests there may have been a spa here sometimes in olden days?) where we were greeted by a friendly horse. We then pedalled onwards, climbing steadily upwards. It was all pretty hard work - I was pleased to have my new bike as some of the gravelly dirt track would've been pretty hard going with my old bike.
We finished the bike trek cycling down hill through the main village of Les Adrets, heading steeply downhill back to Philippe's place (and here I was very grateful for my disk brakes - otherwise it would've been rather breakneck going!)
All in all, a great way to spend a not-so-sunny Sunday morning. And what about the bike then ? Very happy with it so far!
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