First ride

Cervelos, Cervelos, everywhere I look I'm surrounded by Cervelos. Chris' P2C which he upgraded to a P3C. Justin's Dual and now his P2C. I started thinking that unless I get a Cervelo I may not be able to play with these guys too much longer. Anyway, Justin got to ride the P2C tonight. It needed some adjustments so during the day I raised the aerobars and leveled them out and filled the tires with air. I didn't get around to switching the saddle though and I figured Justin's butt wouldn't be to happy but I was hoping the excitement of riding his new bike might make him forget about it. We hadn't done a fit on Justin yet so Chris and I watched his position on the bike and his legs during his pedal stroke and we figured it would be best to stop and make some adjustments. Especially the saddle height. If that's off then it's easy to injure your knees. Good thing Chris was along because you'd need a team of Cervelo engineers to adjust the saddle position. It must have taken 20 minutes but we finally got the saddle adjusted and got on our way. It was pretty windy so I wasn't expecting a fast ride so we let Justin lead us out. As we got past Elgin Mills though Chris passed and went ahead and I followed. It was time to see what Justin could do with the new ride. Chris and I figured he'd likely think he was faster and truth is he is faster on the P2C then his old Dual but as I mentioned to Justin last week when he was asking if he'd be faster than me on this bike, "You may have the chassis but you still don't have the engine". We kept up a decent pace and as we got to Webb Rd. we peeked behind us and sure enough we'd dropped him. He was back there, just a spec but still pumping away. Just a reminder buddy, you've got a great new, fast ride there and you'll be faster on it but you've still got to experience some pain to get better. We rode out along Bloomington and considering that it was getting dark we decided to shorten the ride and cut down McCowan instead of riding back to York-Durham. Going south on McCowan from Bloomington there's a good sized hill that eventually flattens out but is basically downhill for 4 km. Chris and I attacked it all the way to Stouffville Sideroad and got some real good speed going and you'd think going downhill all the way would be easy but it was hard work. Especially trying to keep up to Chris. He sure can ride when he puts his mind to it. We backed off a bit the rest of the way home ending up at just 38 km but a good first ride for Justin's new bike.