Very bling !!
Are the changing rooms at NH still hotter than the sun or have they managed to find the thermostat ?
Hubs came today, look damn nice.
Heat in the changing rooms changes seemingly at random. Some days it can be quite cool in there, then the next, roasting. The locker room/ hanging rails situation is a disaster now though. If you don't have a locker, which is a vast majority. All there is to use is two 1 meter long rails to hang stuff on. No space to let stuff dry, going to be awful when the weather starts turning shite. I'll be hanging my soaking bib shorts from the stairs in protest until they give us some decent space again.
Shoes came this morning \
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Spent half an hour out in the garden practicing clipping in and out. Just about got the hang of it, going to pop out later for a proper spin. Twisting my heel out to unclip seems to have aggravated an old ankle injury slightly, but think it's going to be a case of just MTFU and deal with it.
You'll be surprised how soon you get completely used to having to unclip every time you stop. One thing I will say, when the day does finally come when you get your foot stuck, like someone has already said, don't panic, even when you're about to hit the deck. The trick is to fall off as nonchalantly as possible, as if its all part of the plan to onlookers. You'll know when you're about to go down, just accept it and you'll be fine. It's only happened to me once, luckily in the dark, but infront of a queue of traffic. I knew I was going down and just went with it, no point making a song and dance about it on the way down. Didn't hurt at all surprisingly. I think it's like what they teach you about falling when skiing, if you tense up, you've got more chance of doing damage to yourself than being loose. Plus you look like an even bigger twat panicking, furiously tugging at the pedal to no avail as you flop off.
These days I just try and track stand to avoid fucking about with unclipping.
