
…I’m back on the streets, on the road again….
so what have I been doing?
Sat 9th, Whaley – Buxton loop on the inbred. I’d just bought a new flash so took it out to play and got a halway decent shot of Souter in action. Souter’s tyer decied to play silly buggers so he cut the ride short
3 commutes during the week, Mon-Tue-Wed. By wednesday I was running on emtpy, I limped home in 3rd gear. Still, that’s one day ticked off the deficit. Unfortunately since I’ve had 4 weeks off the bike, the deficit is still at 7 days even with that deduction!
Last weekend, we went camping in That Wales, again with the Souters. The plan was to ride Llandegla on Friday, then head over to the campsite in Llanrwst. We’d ride Penmachno on Saturday, and then having packed away tents we’d ride the Marin trail on the Sunday. Unfortunately Jane wasn;t 100% so we skipped Llandegla and went straight to Llanrwst. In typical fashion, the Saturday morning was lovely until we took the bikes out of the car @ Penmachno! We struggled round the trail, we did skip the clearfelled bit just after Loop 2 as the crosswind was so strong we were getting bown off the trail! FInished it cold wet and miserabl and decided there and then that we wouldn;t be riding on Sunday – all our gear was soaked through. We did have a lovely sociable weekend camping though!
And today, I’ve commuted again. I struck it really lucky, the weather was fine this morning, but all afternoon we had torrential rainshowers – excpet for the hour I took to ride home, it stopped just before I left work and restarted just after I got home, result!
Got to rebuild the rear wheel at some point. I did pick up a rim from Jon @ Bicycle Smithy, but having looked in detail tonight I think the current rim is ok for a while yet.
Need to ride in at least one more day this week, will try for two…