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It's another slightly messed up week here Cabotville. Monday was only ever going to be a short walk after which i used all the remaining homegrown tomatoes to make a small batch of chutney, which, i have to say so myself, turned out brilliant! I know, its a bit sad that my highlight of the day was making chutney, what can i say?
Some quite damp and mixed up weather kept me off the bike on Tuesday so today i was ready to spin the pedals a bit. First off was fixing the flat rear tyre, a slow, that i've picked up, nothing in the tyre that i could find, more on that later, job done i set off for a shorter ride to a cafe south of Bath. Which of course was closed when i got there so it was either retrace or push on to Radstock where there is another purveyor of hot food and tea, i chose the latter even if it did include a couple of 17%+ climbs.
Thankfully the cafe was open so i opted for the Full English, a goodly platefull with all the essentials and a halfway decent mug of tea, eaten whilst watching the traffic on the busy Fosse Way a few metres away. Radstock reminds me a bit of Matlock twenty years ago before it found tourism, the industry from which it grew long gone, waiting for the next thing to give it back some self respect, the town centre has been annihilated by good intensions, any character has been ripped out and replaced with tarmac and poorly styled newbuild. Back on the bike i decided to take the 'less' climbing route back via Midsomer Norton and the A39, there was a bit of fret over the highest ground then i was back into the Afontal, eventually stopping the clock a few metres shy of 70km but with over 450m of up, mostly accrued along the A39!
I'd been back a couple of hours before i put the bike away to find the rear tyre flat again - clearly there is something in the tyre, grrrr! Thats a job for tomorrow. The plan for the back of the week is currently, Thursday - chores, Friday - longer ride possibly to Stroud, Saturday is so far open then on Sunday i'll meet up with my brother who will be in Bath for a few hours for work. I will of course be posting more Gaby here later on Sunday.
That's it for now, stay safe,
Tschuss,
Madeline Anafrid
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Always pleasant
We love your little adventures almost as much as Gaby's. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Fact
Is sometimes more out there than fiction!
Sharing this stuff helps me keep things in a bit more perspective, I’ll finish my tea and sort out that puncture now, if I don’t it’ll get left to the morning when I want to go out on the bike.
Ciao
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Probably a tiny shard of glass
You won’t feel it and you need a pin to remove it but it’s there and dam near invisible. I had to turn my new tire inside out to find it. A pin later glass removed. Amazingly the tube I patched still holds air without loss after eight months of non use. Rode my hybrid most of summer.
possibly
but more likely splinters - they've been massacre-ing the hedges, add in a bit of damp and hey presto, puncture city! Plus the two punctures were at @ 90 degrees to each other (the tyre is always fitted in the same place)
A good tube repair will outlast the rest of the tube, i've got tubes repaired ten years ago still in use - as well as dozens of tubes waiting to be fixed, the roads in this area are a nightmare, i reckon i get 3 or 4 times the flats here that i did in GOC! and i hate repairing tubes hence the huge backlog.
Madeline Anafrid Bell