Ride 20/06/2021

Well it was another eventful day of cycling. Again it was only me and Nick cycling today, its a nice day to cycle again so why no one else turns up I don’t know. Anyway we decided to extend todays ride a little bit by cycling the usual route at the start but instead of heading up Dollarbeg we just carried on to Stirling and stopped there for the cafe stop. After the cafe stop we headed for Alloa and then followed the normal way home along the coastal route but again with a slight detour of skipping out Dunfermline and heading for Rosyth where Nick turned off for home. I decided to carry on as I was feeling fine still and headed for Kirkcaldy and when I hit Kirkcaldy this is where the shit hit the fan At Kirkcaldy I broke my chain >:-( I was not a happy bunny I was still about 8 miles from home. You could argue that it could have been worse and I could have broken my chain 50 miles from home. Had that happened in Stirling I’m close enough to family for them to pick me up but in Kirkcaldy I’m too far for family assistance. Thankfully my multi tool does have a chain tool on it so I was able to break a link in the chain and put it back together but this is a temp fix so I had to nurse the bike home at a slow pace and just to piss me off even more it started to rain :’-( thank god it wasn’t as bad as yesterday. Anyway I made it home clocking up 77 miles (I was aiming for 80 but didn’t want to push my luck) at an avg speed of 16 mph, I now need to hope I can get a new chain…