Great fun riding home, the government (this is relevant) had the good grace to offer me a loan bike for a month thru a local hire company whilst my trusty STEEL Raleigh mtb is away being untwisted from my hamfisted attempts at cold setting the frame (also being paid for by Boris). Covid is the best provider of bicycle orientated funding ever (although I didn't get on too well with it back in March)
Anyway the hire bike whose name is Claude Butler managed to spit off the gear hanger in a pique of disgust when I had the temerity to ride up a hill. Pitch black farm track lots of cow poo three miles from home with a tangled derailleur dangling in the spokes making that characteristic and evocative spokey dokey noise that I loved as a five year old- vrum -vrumm!!
I have never enjoyed a walk so much.
Anyway what I am looking for is a) sympathy - unlikely and b) your tales of woe and despair at being utterly stranded by component failure or total breakdown.
p.s.
How can aluminium be a suitable material for bikes, aeroplanes, drinks cans, my car wheels or anything else? Bring back wrought iron and a hammer and a brace of donkeys
Anyway the hire bike whose name is Claude Butler managed to spit off the gear hanger in a pique of disgust when I had the temerity to ride up a hill. Pitch black farm track lots of cow poo three miles from home with a tangled derailleur dangling in the spokes making that characteristic and evocative spokey dokey noise that I loved as a five year old- vrum -vrumm!!
I have never enjoyed a walk so much.
Anyway what I am looking for is a) sympathy - unlikely and b) your tales of woe and despair at being utterly stranded by component failure or total breakdown.
p.s.
How can aluminium be a suitable material for bikes, aeroplanes, drinks cans, my car wheels or anything else? Bring back wrought iron and a hammer and a brace of donkeys