Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Day 32- Another rest day!?

So the plan was to go for breakfast and head to the bike shop when it
opened at 10am- and to be on our way around noon. The guy was at the
shop when we cycled past so we went in. He said he'd be busy until
noon putting together some other bikes. We had breakfast and went back
over to the store to put new tyres on my and Luke's bikes. We were
having a special day and blew three tubes in the process of fitting 4
tyres!! And then it took until 1.30 for the guy to get started on our
bikes... Amazingly, my chain is not worn out at all even though I
have not looked after it one bit! No cleaning, no lube, well once in
the bike shop back in Lander but other than that, no TLC. Everything
else was also in good shape, and Luke's bike didn't need much work
either. But then (it's 3pm by now...) we finally got to Mike's bike,
and his chain and cassette needed replacing. We figured there was no
way we were going to go anywhere today, so we headed to Starbucks and
re-scheduled the next few days. We're still ahead of schedule, and
with another long day ahead tomorrow, it should stay that way.
Tomorrow we'll finally get out of Kansas, though that means we'll soon
be on the rollercoaster ride across the Ozarks. I'm not sure how hard
it'll be, as none of the climbs are very high or long, but some are
very steep and there are lots of them- no idea how many hundreds!

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