Ride every day.

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Bright sun, 22°C, brisk SW wind, humid and dry.

6 days in a row.

In school holidays and fully recuperated. I’m still nursing that ankle injury but the problem is all about stiffness now. The Achilles tendon sides have gone back to hollow (as normal). I’m wearing barefoot shoes most of the time now. They are working very well. Returning to running is still out of the question. Maybe in the new year….

Further, there is something I learnt from this injury; continue exercise when you have balanced recovery time with effort time. This applies to this week’s rides. The recovery time is there each day because I’m not in work. That’s how you can ride every day without degradation.

Long walk home.

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28°C, strong, humid sun, turning into thunderstorms later.

Ride to work day: set off early this morning giving time for a more relaxed pace. At the end of the day, I got the bike out and found a flat tyre. After changing the inner tube, the tyre was reluctant to take much pressure.

After a mile or so, it was obvious that I’d have to walk. At 3 miles, I got to a garage and phoned for a taxi. I baulked at £45 to go 11 miles no way! So off I went. As the hours rolled by, the clouds thickened and began to rumble. By the time I was passing Hesketth Bank, there were frequent lightning strikes including at least 20 ground-strikes.

Cracks

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17°C, bright sun and light easterly.

Chapel near Holmes.

The frame is cracked, I’m pretty sure. There is nothing to the touch inside the seat-tube, but the welds on the outside have many. It’s where the top-tube joins that’s the problem.

One of many.

At least I can easily get the Racelite back on the road. There’s a few changes it needs. The handlebars are too low and too deep. They are old Cinelli 66-44 bars from the 90s. The reach is too deep such that they are unusable on the hooks.