Well I guess I should apologise for not giving you your regular dose of blog, but I won't. After a bit of an off-period which I randomly get mid-season due to weather and stuff, I have been back on the bike. Or at least I was until Thursday, when a dog had other ideas for my day.
It was a nice club ride, a steady one with the older chaps, but allowed Dan and I to get some sprints in early on to open up the legs a bit. I reckon we did more hills on that ride than we do on a Sunday with scratch riders.
On the way back from a café just outside Louth, we were somewhere just past Manby, the group had just turned a corner and I was sitting back wheel and in front of me was Dan. A lady was on the floor doing some gardening with her dog near her. The dog, not on a leash, decided he would run out into the middle of the group, right in front of Dan. Dan braked and swerved and missed the dog. I hit Dan, then proceeded to hit the Dog side on. It travelled a metre or so before hitting the ground and I went over, hit my wrist on my bars, doing a fair bit of damage to the wrist. Dan rolled on a little then keeled over and hit the ground.
Turns out the dog and the woman were both fine, my wrist was out of commission so I rode home one-handed, and Dan ripped his bar tape. After repairing my tyre we were on our way again.
Over the past week Dan has been ordering and receiving components for his new bike. To date, he now has everything, and the bike has been sent to be properly cabled up and tuned.
My new bike however is taking slightly longer. The frame should be with me next week, the rest of it is on order and will be here by the time the frame has been sprayed up. It will probably be 2 weeks when all is done and the bike is ready to ride. A bit late on in the season but I'll get a bit of use out of it before the cold and wet comes once again.
Just to wet your appetite here is what the new frame should look like:
For reference, this is Dan's Blog, with pictures of new components and some nice tales of the road.
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