If you can't reach it that's pretty bad(chk your tyre pressure) 7000km a year is not that much tbh.......I cycle about 2100km/mnth(90-110km a day) so that's add up 25k km/per year.Sorry if I over do you also "basics" right?So not fluent....that doesn't count because in that case I do speak a bit Polish and Austrian...Keep going.