Thursday, June 26, 2008

June 25 - Evansburg to Thorsby - 136 km

A long, but not that hard day today. Reasonably flat, but no headwinds (at least that I remember).
Today's big event (for me) was my first bicycle problem. After working on other bikes mine decided to give me a problem by breaking the chain (the master link disintegrated). This happened at lunch in Drayton Valley - there are no bike shops in Drayton Valley!

Luckily, at the last minute before we left on this trip I decided to toss my chain breaker into the tool kit - it saved my bacon. That, along with the memory of a MEC video on chain repair got me back on the road in half an hour, and I didn't even miss lunch.

Everybody should check out the MEC technical videos on their website. They're great - thanks MEC!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When you guys get to Sask, are you going to go through Dog River and stop at Corner Gas? Karen wants to know. LOL!
jf