Quelle horreur! I had my FIRST PUNCTURE yesterday! :-( I managed to find a very nice little bus shelter to undertook the gruelling procedure of doing something about it. And I managed to sort it. :-) I took off the back wheel (under the guidance of the instruction manual), eased out the inner tube and replaced it with a new one, put the wheel back on and connected everything; then set off. But, yikes, no gears! The cable connections had come undone; I had to take off the panniers again to do them up properly. and then I was on my way again. In all, 1 hour! How about that?! :-) .
The puncture happened at about the time that some words I had written for the cycling workshop at the Royal Geographic Society's Explore weekend would have been read out (in which I happened to have mentioned that I had had no punctures to date). Sod's law, eh?
I thought this event deserved a special journal entry. :-)
not bad going
ReplyDeleteEngland to Jordan with out a puncture!
Hope the knee is holding up:)
Gees Astrid you got as far as jordan before you got your first puncture!. How many kms have you clocked up now?. How is the isolation and the headwinds in the middle east treating u?.
ReplyDeleteBeen following your travels and am happy you started up a blog. Talk to you soon.
Your aussie cycling friend Tim.