overlap

I just pumped up the tyres on the lovely bike and dragged it round my hour circuit for the first time since October - my first go back to using a bike with a gear system that I never really got to grips with using instinctively in the first place. Leaving aside the fact that any knack I had for selecting the right gear at the right time has left me completely, I'm stunned to find I was quicker than all bar one time round that route before. I put it down to the eight months of only commuting on a bike with just the one gear giving me no option but to rely on power more than gears. I'm not sure whether I can entirely trust the speed on the computer, but there's a very long hill I come down towards the end of the ride, and I do hit the mid-40s on it on a regular basis. But tonight the computer shows my maximum speed as a whopping 51 mph, and while it's true I wasn't by any means hanging about, I'm a little reluctant to believe that fully. But it would be funny it if were true.