Tuesday 7 July 2020

A big fall

On Sunday there was a band in the bay, using Simon's Black Shrimp as the stage.  It looked fabulous from the patio...
Where I was recovering from a larger-than-before bicycle crash...

the main injury of which was this little beauty on my thigh, with an obligatory thread of gauze still sticking to its oozy surface.  As the hours tick by, it morphs from graze to bruise.
Big Blue was not as lucky, having both scrapes and breakages.  One of my bike's little customizations are these old school Goats of Gevenalle friction shifters, which they integrate into a cheap (but well designed and made) pair of Tektro RL520 brake levers.  Having the RL520 pair which came on the bike and which I replaced with the Gevenalle shifters, I could take them apart and replace the broken mount and road eaten shifter lever with a new mount and shifter lever scavanged from other parts.  
Ground off the worst of the sharp road surface created edges here and there...



And Big Blue is back, just needing bar tape and the straightened out front mudguard. 

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