We set off from Haydock feeling a little rougher than we anticipated. This is due to 2 people from Stoke Valda and Martin who very kindly contributed to the fund and also insisted on buying us drinks even though we had intended on an early night. We are not ones to complain though and enjoyed their company. We just felt a bit rough setting off.
There is only one way to describe this day - rubbish.
It poured for about 3 hours. All the way through Warrington and a long way after. We were drowned. We then stopped for something to eat when the rain stopped and after that discovered that the Black Pig was misbehaving. The pig was cefinately being a pig and all the gears were slipping continuously. We thought that the rain might have something to do with it but when we found a bike shop they thought that it needed adjusting and that they had fixed it. We set off again only to find out that it hadn't been fixed and was still jumping.
I have been having to take ibrufen for pain in my knees so the fact that I was forced to remain in a high gear even on the hills was not good news but we continued towards Shrewsbury hoping to get there then see if we could find another bike shop tomorrow.
Typical of this day things went even worse when 7 miles from Shrewsbury we had a rear wheel puncture. So we stripped it down put a new tube in only to discover that the pump that we had was playing up and so we couldn't put much air in. Fortunately the B and B owner came and took our luggage and relieved the weight from the bike so we were able to cycle on with less air in the tyre than we wanted.
Random photo of a sunset at Morecombe
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