A DEATHSTAR on wheels

Today I am a bit excited cause after a very long search, and quite a few false starts, I have been given the amazing opportunity to buy this:

 

As you can see – it really does look like a bike DARTH VADER would ride. I expect Shirts to be a tiny, tiny bit jealous. I might add some colour with red tyres and some red and black bar tape. Of note, it has been about 20 months since I bought a new bike – and 5 years since I bought a road bike. I feel like Wayne in Wayne’s World when he finally gets his stratocaster out of the perspex case and says to the deadshit sales dude, “Ah, do you accept…cash?!”