Just my luck

Posted by Lindsey Cole at 22:53 on 16 Feb 2010

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From doing research about the trip I came accross an organised Canadian cycling group, Tour d'Afrique, who've been attempting a similar route for a few years. I read one lady's blog and was quite excited at what I learnt. She'd completed all 8000 miles without receiving a single puncture. My pupils dilated with excitment and I started wondering whether that 2 hour mechanics lesson I received from Matt in the Cycle Care was a waste of time. I didn't have one pucture in the 1000 miles from Lands End to John O'Groats. Maybe, if i have the same tyres as her I won't get a single hole,nail,or nasty foreign object in my tyre for the length of the African continent?!  Alas, my hope was swallowed up as quickly as my tyre defated. It took just 2 days, with 130 or so to go, and I not only got one puncture, but 2. 2 in an hour! I then made a 25 Egptian pence (about 2p) bet with Dicken that I won't get a puncture for the rest of the trip, I've had my share. Will I ever learn?

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