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It's a bit more complicated than that...
After 20 years with a clean sheet, as some of you know we slid gracefully sideways on the tandem on a patch of black ice on the way to the Friday's Christmas ride.
This afternoon I was coming down the hill from Chesham tube station on the Brompton and found a pothole as I was trying to work out how to negotiate getting off the road to walk down against a one-way street. Because I was going very slowly I didn't come out the other end.
No damage to self, but I'm more shaken up than I expected. The bike needs attention - the brakes are sticking and the wobbly hinge I was going to take a look at is now more wobbly. And my trousers are a complete write-off. Walking into a solicitor's office with a large tear in my clothes was interesting.
This afternoon I was coming down the hill from Chesham tube station on the Brompton and found a pothole as I was trying to work out how to negotiate getting off the road to walk down against a one-way street. Because I was going very slowly I didn't come out the other end.
No damage to self, but I'm more shaken up than I expected. The bike needs attention - the brakes are sticking and the wobbly hinge I was going to take a look at is now more wobbly. And my trousers are a complete write-off. Walking into a solicitor's office with a large tear in my clothes was interesting.