Andre, I hope that bike lives forever.
Last year was the first time that I didn't make a shortlist of bikes and spend some time considering which I should treat myself to. The reason is that in the last five or six years, my shortlist was the same three bikes each year, one of which I already have but just in a different color, which tells you how desperate I was becoming.
The truth is, I have the best bike for my purposes; it was excellent to start with, and now I've further developed it to a most pleasing state of refinement and utility, with very little left that I can do (perhaps a new seat post, because the Brooks saddle clip is such rubbish), so I'm getting a bit bored. Idle hands, my granny used to say, are the devil's ear cushion. (Don't ask me, I'm just telling you what she said.)
So I stopped wasting time evaluating bikes in detail to arrive at the same old shortlist.
A positive view on this is that I already own the best bike I have ever owned or will ever own, and should concentrate on riding it.
