So a lot happened since the last time I posted. We got in contact and put the order at Fairlight for our two bikes, one Secan in blue and one in grey, 51T and 58T, GRX 2X800, 700C Hope wheels with Panaracer Passela. Estimated Delivery date beginning of November - which we are very happy with because it looked like April 2020 on their time table for a period of time, massive backorder for the 51T size.
A few weeks ago we went on a 50km tour and just took a path into the woods with light gravel, everything was fine, till we got to a familiar part with big rocks and it was so sketchy to ride down on 28mm tires, I swore I will never do that again with my current bike. Don't get me wrong, I drove MTBs my whole youth in Austria and was living on a small mountain but with 28mm and too much pressure, the stones were flying left and right ^_^ Uh, and an personal best for me, beat one of the climbing parts on this course, was very proud - overall the concentration on gears and RPM/spinning is paying off.
Back to the preparation for the bikes, I ordered a lot of stuff, from tools to pedals. We also decided not to put the bikes in the cellar and keep them on a rack in the apartment. Looking forward to get all the tools (nothing special, torque wrench and so on) to practice a little bit on the current bikes.
Few things I'm a little bit worried about, whole bike fitting part (Fairlight couldn't use my bike fit data, because the company that did it uses some strange measurements and the one from my GF got lost/data lost at the company). So we chose standard recommendation for stem and crank length, no spacers. To get a little bit of knowledge and some help I ordered a bike fitting set from ergon for the basic stuff. Hopefully I find a good LBS willing to take us as customers in the long run. Needless to say we are more than excited for the bikes.
Hope you all doing well!
