Nothing like that first day when you bring out the bike just to discover that something is broke or missing which sends you scurrying around the lokal bike shops for bits and pieces of which many are not really necessary but they seem to fill some sort of important need.
Then there is all the gear you need to put on, where is it, and where are those really warm gloves or did they disintegrate last year? How come the helmet smells of crayfish and where are the really cool sunglasses. Yes, that’s it.

Well, all those things are still to come, and the premiere ride… The glory, the luck, the joy. Soon…