100km ride on new BMC Streetfire. Bought this as a bike to travel with (I hate to say beater bike about a BMC ), my main bike is a Trek 2006 5200 OCLV and it was getting beaten up. I also got a set of mavic ESs

First ride on Mavic ESs - Like them - they spin free, the irratation of the buzz makes me pedal and not coast. They look too blingy to me, should have got the SLs

First ride on a aluminium road bike - Carbon seat post and Toupe seemed to even things out a little, certainly not as plush as my OCLV. Not unbearable though

First proper ride on a compact frame - didn't notice a real difference except standover

First proper ride on a compact crank - need to get me a 12 -27 on the rear. More shifting then with my triple, will take a little time to get used to it I guess

p.s. for the record - red bikes are faster

picked up the wrong (niece's) iPod on the way out of the door and found that "I wanna be your Girlfriend" by Avril whoever is good for climbing