This weeks ride was a relativley short affair but not without incident.
Mark had decided summer was in the air and was bearing his legs: very brave as I was still well wrapped up against the chill. I'm not a warm person ("I know" I hear my wife scream), so it will need to be a few degrees warmer for me to expose body parts.
I knew as soon as I moved off I was in for a frustrationg ride as I had an unidentifyable clicking comng from the rear of my bike which despite a good check of the obvious culprits could not be cured. I continued on but, as with most annoying noises, it was slowly driving me bonkers.
The weather was Ok, a little misty but once up and running it was pleasant enough although we had to deal with a steady breeze which made the
first half somewhat hard work but of course led to a faster more relaxed
ride home.
About half way around the loop I stopped and had a good look at my rear wheel and sort of diagnosed the noise as somehting that might be spokes related, probably relating to lack of tension making them click.. .that's about the sum of our mechanical knowledge.
The stop gave us the chance to take a photo or two to test the blog out and we able to post direct from my phone so at least we know that works.
The rest of the trip was very pleasant, we only did about 21 miles but at least we were out and about and both of us felt our cycling legs were beginning to come back to us.
I popped into AJ's Cycles on the way home and have left the bike for them to have a look at, it would appear our guess is actually possible so they are going to let a real mechanic have a look.
I also ordered a new Hi-Vis Jkt so Cathy will be happy now!!
We've had out first LEJOG newsletter from Discovery Adventure. There will be 40 of us on the trip. Its quite exciting to realise we are not that far away now, we will start to get route details etc as we get closer but for the moment its all about getting the miles in during training
We shall go longer again next week.
Onwards and Upwards!!
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