Sydney moved about 400km north this weekend to land in a subtropical zone complete with stinking humidity and oven like conditions overnight. An atmosphere you could cut with an knife this morning, sweat refusing to evaporate leaving a puddle under the bike at all stops looking much like aircon exhaust.
Numbers were down today, could have been weather related or that various vigorous exploits had been undertaken on the weekend, a full report being expected shortly…Chippo from Byron and Drastic on the Highland fling…so where were the other 12 regulars…
I was on Doris’s bequest today due to serious mechanical failure in the TCR which is back in the Hornsby Cycle shop being reassembled after I took it apart on Saturday. The head set bearings had seized up and rusted through, too jammed in I balked at the idea of bashing them out myself, and the frame maker had also added to the issue by ensuring the top bearing cup holder was “carboned in” a lip diameter smaller than the bearing diameter..so into the shop it went..where they found the chain had stretched to beyond replacement size and the cassette needed to be replaced, so in all when I get it back all the drive chain components will have been replaced a couple of times, I don’t seem to be having much luck really considering I have only done about 12000km on that bike. ( Or are my expectations too high )
A gentleman’s pace set no record books alight today, DT managed to swing the KOM by working over an embattled Half Khan, I think we were joined by TFS at that point who had missed the departure by 5 mins and had chased us down. Drastic had taken the highway as he too was a late departure, and had beaten us to the café by a mere 5 minutes, enough to have the tables reserved, which was great because the shock of Friday was still reverberating through the peloton.
Stinking humidity not withstanding, departures as posted last week…anytime you can, but there will be a 6pm bus for those who are keen.
Have a great day all.
BT