It stopped raining this afternoon and the Sun came out for a bit, so I took a long lunch break and went for a Twycrosser. I took the hybrid this time. The roads were pretty wet and I don’t want to overwork the Boardman. It had done 7 in a row, it’s my only winter road bike and there’s quite a lot of winter left! Also, I haven’t lubed it since the last time I hosed the chain and gears out with GT85.
Not that cold, but a lot blowier than the BBC had led me to expect. Seems you can’t trust them for anything these days.
The hybrid is a heavy old carthorse of a bike really but it rolls along pleasantly enough if you take it easy, which of course I did. I had a quick look round the newly built housing estate not far from Slim Towers on the last half mile. Just being a curtain-twitching nosy neighbour really, but it did have the effect of padding my ride out just over 20 miles.
Back after sunset and I only had flashy blinkers on, but it was still light enough to see the road.
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20.12, 333 this month.