An eventful night for the Friday chaingang. Conditions were quite cold but dry as we set off from the fairlight lodge. On the long drag from Rye myself and Derek had been dropped by the others. About half way up I suddenly saw Paul pulled over at the side of the road. As I looked up to see what was going on I rode straight into a large pothole . Somehow i managed to stay on but the tube in my front wheel suffered a major blow out. It turned out that I was the second victim of this pothole as Malcolm had hit it the previous week. Having fixed the punctures we carried on and eventually caught up with the others at the front. By this time it had started raining so we considered mainroading up to the ridge instead of ascending Stonestile. Fortunately the rain eased off and we were able to do Stonestile. Derek was on his brand new Corratec ultegra equipped bike and found the ascent of Stonestile easier than the previous week when he conquered it for the very first time. By this time it was raining again but as we were going to the pub we didn't mind. Paul had yet another puncture on the way to the pub and so we had to use up our last inner tube . After 3 pints in the pub we emerged to find that the rain had got worse and get soaked through as we had to cycle back to Hastings into a strong headwind. Moral of this story is always carry 2 spare inner tubes rather than one and report potholes to
http://194.238.70.74/faultreport/faultlocation.aspx?TypeId=0014002
S.C
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