Just One Disaster After Another

On Tuesday we met Jonny, the new kid on the block, and tonight we did a group ride, the 4 main youngsters in the club. It started off well, it got better, we climbed some hills, did some work, then climbing into Caistor Jonny's front mech twisted, so after a few minutes with an Allen key I got him on the road again.

We thought this was all of our bad luck and carried on. Then about half an hour later we were set on the way home, and had made it onto the drag, and Jonny somehow managed to physically wrap his chain around his crank arm. After some moaning about how oily his chain was, I managed to fix it, and we were on our way again.....or were we? Dan got clipped in, rode onto the opposite side of the road, shouted "my chain is off" and a split second later so was he. This was rather amusing so we won't count this too much as misfortune.

A couple of miles later, Jonny's chain was off again, fortunately not in a bad way, and 20 seconds later we were moving yet again.

At the end of the drag we had our customary sprint, which I won as I tend to, but managed to ping a spoke, which has pretty much written off yet another wheel. Dan managed the same thing a few days ago.

So to summarise:

1 front mech mechanical

2 chain problems, 1 of which very difficult

1 crash

2 wheels written off

Kharma? Perhaps, but what on earth for?