I’m Tristan and an Aussie who has been living in London for a few years now! Been riding dirt bikes most my life but finally decided to get my road license and get myself a nice road bike! I recently passed and bought myself a new bike!
A little about me I’m a software engineer based in the city, I rock climb on a regular basis and I have grown quite fond of English ale!
I’m looking to meet a bunch of people and partake in some rides to do a bit of exploring of the UK! I’m interested in coming to the Borough meets and would love to get to know a few people on here so I can have a few friendly people to show me the ropes when I come out to the meets
Here is a picture of my bike! She is brand new and still in the “ride in” phase so I’m having to take it a bit slow and relaxed on the bike at the moment! It’s 2013 Honda CB600FB Hornet! I quite like the colour means I can stand out a bit on the road!
The bike is driving me a little mental at the moment haha, I have only done 70 miles on it so far and still trying to ride it in, and the weather is not helping, the tyres are still as slippery as hell so not having much fun at the moment!
I perfectly understand!
Just had the first service done on my new bike this morning… what I nice feeling :Wow:
Make sure you don’t “baby” the bike… don’t be scared to rev, just make sure you don’t keep a costant speed for too long!
For the tyres you might wanna go in a wide space like a parking or something to break them in safely
Glad to hear you do rock climbing. I think of getting out of London to Snowdonia (bike in) and do the hike via Watkins path (not really a climb per se, but supposed to be a good hike).
Would you be interested to join?
I went on to Ben Nevis in May, took me all day to ride London to Highlands (580 miles). Snowdonia is only 240 miles away.
