 So welcome to week seven of this vlog series that I'm doing. It's mating season here in Australia I was just doing a hill repeat on my heavy training bike and I just got absolutely Nailed by a swooping magpie about four or five times. I wasn't even hitting the helmet. It was getting the side of my head It really hurt, but the beauty of that is I found this view and Probably an even better hill without any of those bloody magpies Swooping on me. So let's get into it. So I think I'm buying a race bike today We're at a little town called Red Cliff, which is just out of Brisbane about an hour from my place and I've brought my bike with me my existing bike the LA because I think when you're buying you bike if you've got an existing one You can take it's good to look at them side by side just to ensure there's no anomalies and also you can measure your seat height and I think it's just going to give you a little bit more confidence if I'm going to walk out the door with this New race bike. So very excited. Let's go in So now I have two bikes behind me Because there's a window here, and it's good lighting and there's no where else in the house. It's like this Can you just give me five minutes? So as you can see both the girls are back from Melbourne And it was just a dog and I for almost a week things got a little bit crazy didn't they Rossie? Where's Rossie gone? Oh Boy here is so I think it's got a little bit weird didn't I while the girls are away. I did a 24-hour drive fast I know it was a bit of an extreme and slightly different thing to do but I lost about a kilo and a half in that process which I need to do for Well, I thought I needed to do for this road race coming up which I'll explain shortly and also My training week this week so it was a rest week last week this week my training has been really really good really strong now I am sort of Are you talking to me now? Are you? What are you saying? I know it's a bit more relaxing when I just you and I wasn't it Yeah So actually slept really well for about 48 hours after that process as well You thought I was a little bit strange didn't you the dry fast hard dry fast? Yeah, she feels strange, but anyway, go to go probably won't do that again But I might go the water fast 24 hours soft dry fast men's I can still shower brush my teeth all that kind of stuff I bought a bike What giant Giants giant yeah, we have a giant in our house emanating giant vibe. I know but I had a strict budget I can't wait to show you I purchased this bike for under $1,500 USD, so it's gonna be a video next week I'll show you at the end of this video, but I'm gonna do a full piece on it next week But then what happened after I sort of locked that bike in Alice. Can you explain to people? What's happened? So I secured a bike, but then right like literally two or three days later. We went to see a house, didn't we? I saw a house off the market on a Friday last Friday it took him to see it on the Saturday We bought it on the Saturday. We've signed contracts. We're just waiting on finance. We're doing things backwards Which is my way camera wouldn't come run. I would never choose to do that. Well, it was very unexpected I'm not very responsible These two are the most responsible members of this how did I look when we're signing contracts with the real estate agent? Actually, I actually said to him are you okay? It looks like it was gonna vomit. It was like gray and yellow Because what did I say about two or three weeks before you did this? I'm really looking forward to the next bit of routine better. You know we can just settle into this place. You go by This is why we're getting a giant Daddy So I've just popped downstairs to get away from the noise upstairs and the beauty of that as well as you can see behind me I've got the chapter 2 rare a and also the new giant TCR that I've purchased for a cracking price I can't wait to share all the details with you next week and the beauty of this is One it fell into my budget somehow. I was looking for a while and I did a fair bit of research And I'll explain the story to you next week A lot of people on the channel have been giving me some constructive feedback about all these top-end road bikes that I review 10 to $15,000 will have that reviewing some more affordable road bikes So that my friends is a very affordable road bike and a review and a whole bunch of things will be coming on the channel Surely in regarding to the giant TCR The reason why I purchased that is because I want to do some road races and the chapter 2 It's a great-looking bike. It's great for cruising around here awesome for crits same as the LA sprint But in terms of road races as an all-round race bike They don't tick a few boxes and the giant TCR by all accounts Certainly does now as you just heard we think we've bought a house now when I say we think We'll either find out today or maybe early next week And I debated whether I put this video up actually because I feel like we've already been on a bit of a roller coaster with This series but that is life and because I just want to say first and foremost how Grateful and fortunate we are to be able to buy a house being a position to buy house in a great country such as Australia But the fact of the matter is and I don't want to get too personal here But if we can buy this house, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel and really that changes the financial position Of where I'm at because as you all know the original end goal of this series Was to do the masters in Adelaide and I did my numbers While the girls were away and it's going to cost Roughly two grand to get their flights accommodation car hire and all that kind of stuff and to be honest That's just doesn't make financial sense anymore to go do that and the fact of the matter is I can do races up here That are going to cost less than five percent of that including the state champs next Sunday So I'm going to do the Queensland State road champs next Sunday And there's a big night crit up here hosted by the Australian Cycling Academy in October, which is going to be awesome. So The series will still run. I'm still gonna race and look this series isn't about The destination is about the journey and I'll catch you in the next video