Golden goat race today, great fun! Weeks/months of prep and it was the first time trying to organise a race for a lot of us so even more rewarding seeing it all work out.
Raced a couple of laps on the Singlespeed, Absolutely flogged me. Then spent the day faffing about in a goat costume on the penny farthing and tandem bike. And followed it all up with my first ever ebike ride. (For the sweep lap)
That's right, an ebike
I rode out actually fairly excited about it, no real idea what to expect. Got a few km in and after a couple of climbs was starting to wonder what the buzz is all about, I'm heaps faster on my spider! Got halfway up the Grassy spur climb (absolutely terrible climb), and found the boost setting thoroughly underwhelming. Then I looked down and saw a little exclamation mark on the screen. Stopped, turned off the bike and back on again, turns out it was in error mode and I'd been riding with no motor the whole time!
Once I got it working I found it odd. Really nice on firetrails climbs, that's undeniably awesome. Techy climbs are sort of good sort of not, it takes some of the effort out but momentum is all over the place so it ends up being a lot of work still. Flats are awkward, that constant topping out at 25 doesn't do it for me, I think I'm a bit quicker on a regular bike. Descents is also awkward, the weight is nice on rocky stuff but fuck me it's disconcerting having it feel like its dragging the brakes all the time because you're over 25.
Overall, I prefer my Penny farthing
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