You know you have days ...

[CopperBrompton]

... when you're really struggling, and finding even cycling on the flat to be hard work, for no apparent reason?

Well, if you have one of those days on a trike, you might want to check that you weren't riding 69 miles with the parking brake on after it went out of adjustment ...

Or so an, er, friend tells me.

 

[hackbike 666]

No I normally struggle in London but out here cycling in Bangkok I have had absolutely no problems.Strange.

Well perhaps only the heat/dehydration.

Your story is impressive though.

 

[Jane Smart]

Oh dear your poor friend Ben

 

[potsy]

your 'friend' sounds like a right muppet

 

[Keith Oates]

Just think of it as extra training, Ben!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dayvo]

What a knob! Hope you learn from his mistake, Ben!

 

[fossyant]

Doh !

 

[GrasB]

Ben, you've your friend managed to beat my school boy error of not realising I was on the top chainring instead of the middle. Was trying so hard to get my cadence up I didn't check the speed, boy was in for a shock when I got home.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I told my, ah, friend what a prat he was; he claims it was just resistance training.

 

[Jane Smart]

Did he realise what a prat he was though??

 

[CopperBrompton]

I am given to understand that his words to himself when he realised were broadly along the lines of 'Doh!'.

 

[Jane Smart]

In good old Bart style eh? B)

Mine would have been less polite

 

[CopperBrompton]

I gather he may not have used that exact word.

 

[Jane Smart]

Well if it is any consolation, I was doing a 42 miler yesterday on my MTB. Heading the last ten miles, I would change gear, ok, then they would slip. It was so annoying. Anyway, today, I cleaned the chain and gears working perfectly. Must have been all the dirt I picked up in the woods B) causing chain to be dirty, in future I will carry chain cleaner and lube when I do dirty riding ( that sounds bad doesn't it? )

 

[Dayvo]

in future I will carry chain cleaner and lube when I do dirty riding ( that sounds bad doesn't it? B) )

Oh, I don't know about that!