Tee-hee :-)
As it happens, I did succumb to a red "thorn logo" vest and black tights that do finish it off :-)
I'm a keen photographer, and really wanted to experiment with a few things. First - how to carry a camera on the bike, and get to it very fast to take a picture. (Next step is a quick release mount, or electronic shutter release on the bars). Also, as cameras with GPS tagging become available, I rather like the idea of having the camera take a shot every 30 seconds, or some other interval along a ride, and tagging the GPS location. Imagine a bikely.com/sporttracks kind of application that can take the GPS output from the Garmin Edge, and the GPS tagged images from the camera.... So you're looking at a graph of speed/elevation/heart rate/cadence - and wondering what happened at various points. You can look at the map - and see a photograph of that point in the ride as well. Early days, just a thought for now.
I'm riding as the main part of a fitness programme, combined with dieting. Slowly building up circuits around where I live which has many hills. A local 20m circuit can have 500m of climb. Then, I plan to cycle from home to oxford, then oxford to reading, once a week or so to get to work in the spring/summer/autumn. I'd like to reach a point where by next year, I can easily do an all day ride and still feel human the next day.
cheers,
Mike
