Can't believe a week has gone by. I loved the ride last Sunday, and even if I I did suffer hours of delays I feel that somehow my passion for cycling was re-ignited.
Sadly, have had a ridiculously busy week at work and home, so apart from some trivial commuting have barely touched the bike. Would have gone out tonight, but guests have only just departed from our afternoon BBQ, and I'm still feeling uncharacteristically inebriated. I reckon tomorrow night is the night.
Anyhow, I wanted to mention a lass I was chatting to at the Leatherhead hub circa 2:45pm.
... she had moved to the States a couple of months ago, but flown back specially for the LondonSurrey100 (with her bike too). "No way I was gonna miss that" she said, so she must have been absolutely gutted when she had a catastrophic rear derailleur fault at the bottom of Box Hill, snapping something vital (hopefully just a hanger).
I guess I would have considered an on-the-spot singlespeed conversion, but a friendly local resident jumped to her assistance and provided a loan bike instead. She was a bundle of gratitude when I chatted to her, with faith in humanity well and truly restored.
Didn't catch her name but it sounds a fairly unique story and I've love to hear more if anyone knows what happened to her. Hopefully she finished okay and got her own bike back.
