It was a truly eventful day.
The morning started well. The house was buzzing with activity and everything seemed to be going smoothly. Then 2 minutes before setting out for the photo at the childrens hospital Ed's eagle eyes spotted that Alex's back wheel wasn't quite right. Seemed there was a bearing problem. Alex was not a happy chappy.
Myself, Ed, Louis and Tom Hext set off as a four whilst the others visited JE James to sort Alex's life out.
Whilst on the exit to Sheffield I spotted that my wheel was slightly buckled, then very buckled. Knowing it was a problem to sort later on in the day.
After a brief tour of Chesterfield industrial estate, with Tom Hext's bottle being a casualty of the road we felt the breeze of lorries of on the dual carriageway we battled through Chesterfield with some help from Mick a local cyclist and went on to Derby and stopped for a cavery. And what a carvery it was.
After refuelling we trudged our way to Hinckley tesco to stock up for the campsite.
At this point we contacted the others to discover Thomas Bustard had suffered a blowout and Tom Arnold was considering buying a new bike.
Hearing that a Halfords was nearby and my bike of need its wheel being straightened I managed to get to Halfords just in time for a sound guy to sort my wheel out, bought a new tyre and inner tube for Bustard and Tom Arnold ordered a new bike to be picked up tomorrow. After experiencing the sluggishness of his current bike.
After joining up again we headed to the campsite where George's dad, Tim, was a hero and supplied us with fish and chips.
What a day. More to come tomorrow.
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