Lucky the forecast was wrong again for the weekend, the expected 15 degrees turned out to be closer to 25 on Saturday. So I was feeling a tad over dressed in 3/4 bibs when I went out with Martinez for our last training ride for our trip down the West Country Way in TWO weeks. We had a pleasant ride despite the traffic jams for the Henley show. The ride out of Henley was a lot steeper than I was expecting or wanting after a big lunch. The contour lines were so close I missed seeing how steep the road really was. Martinez triple punctured, the four year old inner tubes almost fell apart. No problem I thought I’d grabbed a box clearly labeled 26 inch so just swap it out? Ah no I’d stored a 700c tube in that box a long time ago and there was no way I could get it into his MTB tyre. So three patches later we got going again and we have now retired both the old tubes. Everything else is dialled in with both bikes now so we are ready as we will ever be for the ride.
