Hmmm, let me see, oh yes, 'bents and upwrongs, do not good bedfellows, make.
Owning one of each is becoming a bit of a pain.i seem to spend most of Autumn / Winter/early spring (crap weather months) on my upwrong Olive, fettling this, moving that, and by this time of year I'm seemingly quite happy with my lot comfort/speed wise,preparing myself for an annual winter hostelling weekend, (Purbeck this year), reliability rides, possible early Audax type stuff. Then I wheels out Grunhilda for a spin,I does.Hmm ,that hurts, then I spends another 5-6 months trying to get fit on the 'bent, and losing fitness/familiarity with Olive. End f season BHPC race at Hillingdon, sees me as good as it gets, then it's decline, swap bikes rinse cycle repeat! is it all worth it? Why don't I just sell 'hilda and make do with one bike. I did this years 50k reliability ride on 'hilda this year, first time,wasn't slow,wasn't fast, would have been quicker of Olive, with less pain. Hmmmm!
Went out this morning on 'hilda with the trailer to retrieve some dumped roofing battens, (for use as kindling), then back out to Wickes,for 30kg worth of ECO coal (crushed and formed Olive stone, VERY GOOD STUFF, 3x 10kg for £24 plus a 10% discount) .Useful load lugger it is, but is it worth it,trailer won't really fit on Olive very well, without lots of bracketry fettling.