The observant reader of this blog will note that we have had a good trouble free run with our bikes lately. Our last broken spoke was on 4 June. Kris almost replaced his bike at this point (when his saddle column also snapped). It seems that this threat has tamed the bikes into submission. We had entirely incident free cycling the whole time we were in Spain.

Kris is still nursing them though – spending time checking the wheel balance every few days. From now on we are on the look out for a bike shop again as we need to replace our rear tires. I am almost through my expensive NZ Kevlar back tire (I did at least 1000km on it back home before this trip) and Kris’s cheap French tire will need replacing at around the same time. We will also get the chains checked and may have to replace them.

We have now done well over 3000km on the bikes in Europe.