Bike . Ride . Cheap beer . Expensive Sake

Wow, what a great day!

After a couple of disappointing days related to car shopping / inspections on Monday and Tuesday, today was awesome.

The team at Red Barn Bikes finished off my bike, and I went for an after work ride with Chad (owner of said shop), at Lake Como - see the last pic.  More bike pics will be coming.  The bike rides really well and it looks great, what more could a man want?

It was an easy and cautious ride, my first real ride since my elbows were injected with Cortisone 4 weeks ago - I didn't feel any discomfort or strange sensations during the ride - hopefully my elbows don't make themselves felt tomorrow.

There is a ~15km singletrack loop around the lake.  One side of the lake has an "easy" trail, the other side a more technical trail.  Well, the easy side of the lake is the one we rode, and it makes almost all of the trails around Melbourne look like highways.  Rocks.  Montana has a lot of rocks.  Luckily I like rocks.

You may be surprised to read that I've had two beers today.  Beer.  Beer.  I had one late arvo, then a cheap but nice beer after the ride with Chad.  The next stop was a post ride dinner at a great Japanese restaurant.  Nice.

I've attached some of the photo's that I've taken over the past few days.