But I did replace the front brake blocks the other day, so it keeps going. Or, rather, keeps stopping. The "bottom bracket" - as I think it's called - is seriously worn and will need replacing in, oh, a couple of years I should think. I did effect a major improvement last summer: I discovered paniers. They're brilliant! How I rode the previous 50,000 miles without them I don't know. Now I can carry so much more, and without noticing.
An essential piece of kit for the boater is the bicycle. Have you freed yours yet, Mort?
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My bike has been liberated! I would be more than happy to swap mine for yours though.... and Maffi says you can have the one off his roof if you get yourself a back wheel (his fell in the water when he got too friendly with a tree)
My bike must be one of the worst condition bikes on the road (or towpath). You really wouldn't want it. It's only inertia that holds it together - inertia and rust. (Ah! Our TWO main weapons are...) It's been in a serious accident, and been bent under a canal bridge in Stoke-on-Trent. No, you really wouldn't want it. Even the paniers have a hole in them, from when a bottom corner got caught up in the spokes several times before I modified them (the paniers).
Now Maffi's offer is interesting - but, Maffi, you need your bike too.
Have you hidden a spare key for your new lock in a safe place, Mort (a locker at work, perhaps)?
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