The more time I spend on my road bike, the more I love it! That also means the more effort I have to put in to balance all my bikes out. It can be very tempting to plan activities for one bike and completely forget the others. I've been nudging my way closer to a 100 miler each year, last year I managed a 70 odd miler and even an 80 miler but I was having some real niggles at the time and the 80 mile ride was excruciating. I've now had a bike-fit done and I'm a lot more comfortable on the bike, to the point where I'm completely pain free and the miles simple trickle past in happiness. My fitness this year has been better than ever across all my bikes so I decided it was time to finally break my 100 mile cherry and why not do it in style and enter a sportive in the meantime! I wasn't feeling confident enough to do it alone so again it was Buly to the rescue and he agreed to ride the sportive with me. I'd been recommended the Tour of the Black Country and despit...