St Ives (and inevitable puncture)
Did my first ride up the Busway of the year, and the first since it opened all the way to St Ives. 99% nice route, but there’s a couple of concrete ‘humps’ near the Ouse crossing that – while I admit they are very visible and one even has SLOW painted by it – could be pretty nasty if hit fast. There could also be better signs between the centre of St Ives and the busway. It’s a really, really short distance but no line of sight and even though I’d been before (a year or so back) I wasn’t convinced I was going the right way. When the morning get lighter I will try to get the whole length (and back) in on my way to work some days.
On the one of the high winds days last week (I forget which) I let the rain and wind put me off taking my usual route to work. I didn’t fancy the gusts I expected on my Fenland edge route, I’d already had one slalom journey that week. So I went the short way along cyclepaths. No sooner had I got on the first cycle path than there was a fallen down tree. I made the mistake of scooting through the top of the tree (sat on saddle, feet on ground). This was evidently a mistake after spending an hour walking home and pulling thorns out of my front tyre I realised this was the sort of tree your don’t want your wheels to touch. Inner tube replaced at about 10750 miles on the Tricross.
