Was away on holiday in Spain last week so had the bike in at my LBS for a thorough overhaul while I was away. With the rest of this week off too, I'm looking forward to a few rides, including up to north Norfolk tomorrow.
First up though, the 6 mile walk to the LBS. it's mostly across fields on tracks and bridleways and a lovely little nature reserve (SSSI) called Quy Fen. Sadly it's become a bit of a haunt for, shall we say, single men, to lurk. So I didn't hang about!
Near the LBS in Horningsea, I noticed someone must have had a spectacular mechanical failure, with a chain and what looks like a jockey wheel, some 25 feet up on a wire. Wish I'd seen that one!
A freshly fettled bike and I were re-aquatinted- new pedals, fresh cables a thorough strip down and re-grease. All the stuff I really should do myself if I could be arsed, or had the ability. I am an impressively useless fettler. Anyway, riding away it was like a new bike.
The ride home, along quiet tracks like this. Didn't see a soul for miles.
And another track.
This bit was a railway line. It's not officially publicly accessible, but its well used informally. It makes a great alternative to a nasty B road which I hate using.
Closer to home, the nasty B road does at least have a decent cycle path next to it. It's pretty unpleasant though being so close to 80 mph traffic. But it's mostly better than the road except at this time of year when it gets very overgrown. You can't get two bikes passing at the moment. Nice flowers though!
The 6 mile walk took 2 hours, the 6 mile ride home, a tad under 20 minutes. Boy am I glad to have the bike back!