Day 12: Okehampton to Perranporth

on Sep 29 in JOGLE 2010, The Trip by Luke

Total Distance: 71 miles
Time Cycling: 5hrs 30mins
Average Speed: 13.1mph
Top Speed: 50mph!!! in a 40mph zone, with a broken wheel!

Heavy rain delayed start but cleared up quickly. First 40 miles to St Austell went pretty smoothly then SNAP! Another snapped spoke.

We now had 4 spokes missing all on the same side of the wheel, it could buckle completely at any second. We limped into Halfords but they didn’t have any spokes and said the nearest (proper) bike shop was in Truro. Halfords kindly let us leave our bike there and we hopped on the train to Truro with our rear wheel.

We found Clive Mitchell cycles and they did a super quick repair in the time it took us to drink a pint of St Austell Proper Job. But it wasn’t quite quick enough, we sprinted to the station and missed our train by seconds. Full of fish and chips we caught the train back to St Austell an hour later and were on the road to Perranporth at 7pm.

It was dark by 8pm and we wouldn’t have been to cycle without our Exposure light. It was amazing, even down the dark country lanes.

So after an eventful day we made it to the hostel and now have a pint of Betty Stoggs in hand.

40 miles to Land’s End and 1 brewery tomorrow. What could possibly go wrong?

Location:Beach Rd,,United Kingdom