A new beginning.

Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing well. CycleShaz is back doing my blogs after a long time out (1 year to be exact!). I'm very excited to share my life and cycling experiences with you all again. I'd like to say a big thank you for taking time out of your day to read this. You're amazing!

This post is exactly about what it says in the title; 'A new beginning'.

Just a few days ago, I made the extremely difficult decision to part with and let go of the love of my life. I spent a good 4 years of my life with her making memories, travelling to new places, embracing challenges and going on adventures.

I am of course talking about my Road Bike.

But why did I let go of such beauty? Well, it was a decision I didn't want to make, but one I needed to.

You see, when I first bought this Road Bike in late 2017, it was empowering-ly (is that even a word?) amazing! I never owned a Road Bike before and this bike was the stuff of dreams for me. Incredibly fast yet so stunning. But there was a flaw with it that I was yet to discover.

For 2 years after 2017, I made amazing memories with this bike. I travelled to places I've never been, discovered the beauty of nature and encountered challenges that not only made me a better cyclist, but also a better human in many aspects.

As you can work out, I loved the bike.

Until now.

In 2019, I encountered many problems with the road bike that would have eventually lead me to today's solution of selling it.

So what is this problem I have mentioned for the hundredth time I hear you cry?

The frame of the bike is too long causing discomfort in the saddle leading to horrible pain in my sit bones and thighs.

I've tried many things to get rid of the pain such as adjusting my saddle as well as replacing the saddle itself but to no avail. The only viable solution here is to bid farewell to it and get a bike that has a shorter frame.

Are the next few paragraphs going to be my emotional goodbye? Yes ... yes it is.

In our lives, people change and things change. People come and go, things come and go. That's just life. Nothing we can do about it.

"Everything ends and it's always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that's always happy. Be happy."

I'm really looking forward to getting on the saddle again with the new bike. But I will never forget the bike that made me who I am, the person I am today. We always have to be humble and appreciate our beginnings. I had a lovely time with this road bike and my time with it is a story I'll always look back upon.

"Everything has to end sometime, otherwise, nothing would ever get started."

I can't wait to show you all the new bike in the next blog, but this post was about reflecting on the past, embracing change and moving forward to better things.

Thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with me over the last few years. There is still plenty more brilliant adventures to come and this is only "a new beginning".

Until next time.

CycleShaz

“We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one”.