Comments Off After 2 weeks in Paris where its winter, I’ve been going on without exercise, and the when I went for a run on Friday in Langkawi, I could only manage 50% of the distance that I’ve been doign all these while. THen again the course was quite hilly so maybe that’s a good reason. Whatever it is, I think soon I’ll have to learn to run outdoors in the cold.
Comments Off Brought my bicycle to the shop today to upgrade the parts. Actually I was more going from a flat bar cyclocross to a road bike handle bar, and as a consequence, got to change the brake levers (STI) gear shift, rear derailleur into one that will fit a road bike.
Was thinking of a Shimano 105 group, but finally why not just go to Ultegra all the way. AT the end, the cranks were changed as well.
Took some time to get used to the road position, and then I realised that the original setting was a little wrong, the seat was too low, and too far back etc.
Overall, I’m quite happy with the Shimano Ultegra set, shifts well and you dont feel any lag between paddling and the power getting to the wheels. Unlike my previous SRAM X9+Truvativ combination that’s more suited to mountain bikes.
Comments Off Just got back to asia from the first trip to France. I call this the “fact finding” trip. Mission being: find out my schedule to move to Paris, if ever.
It looks like its going to go ahead. The issues with the human resources are either ironed out or I’m feddup to argue with them over a few euro and a little detail here and there. Generally, this first trip is alright, except I got a little conned by the weather forecast on the internet. Either its my fault for being macho, or the internet. Whatever it was, I packed too little clothing for the French winter. My informal wear consist only of a fleece since I expected the weather to be close to 10C. Office attire is ok, I packed enough to survive an Artic winter. In the second week it was normal for the temperature to be anywhere between 0C and 5C during the daytime.
Will be going back to Paris again one last time Mid March to look for an apartment. That’s in about 2 weeks. Right after that I have another 2 weeks to sort out the transportation and selling my car before moving over to PAris for a full year (that’s what the contract says).
By the way, haven’t signed the contract yet. but that should be no problem.
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