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Monday 11 Feb 2019<\/p>\n

Another 10\u00ba start of the day, but by the time I got going it was already a balmy 14\u00ba. A nasty surprise was to discover that I must have left my sturdy plastic cutlery in the draining rack at the Armidale camping. Darn!<\/p>\n

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We’re really in sheep country now. Do the poor creatures look as dry as the grass and the forest behind them?<\/p>\n

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It was going to be another easy day, just 42k to Walcha along Thunderbolt’s Way, which is a paved road. But, I didn’t make it. I was cruising along just comfortably when about 10k before Walcha I must have ridden over a piece of steel wire which wrapped itself expertly around my rear wheel and instantly tore off my derailleur. My third and final derailleur hanger gone! <\/strong><\/p>\n

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I don’t think I have ever in my life had so much bad luck with derailleur hangers! Three hangers, an average of less than a month per hanger. The first one snapped when I went through the grid south of Ravenswood, the second from hitting too many downed trees near Jack’s Hut in the Timbarra Valley, and now this one.<\/p>\n

A very nice young woman, a German tourist, stopped and offered to transport me, but we couldn’t even fit my bicycle in her little campervan. Awfully nice of her though. But soon after a plumbing mechanic from Uralla stopped and drove me the rest of the way to Walcha. I’m now in the Walcha Caravan Park, right behind a beautiful camp kitchen.<\/p>\n

Malcolm Cook and his son Kenny in Canberra are working hard at finding me a replacement derailleur hanger. Kenny is a bike mechanic, has a hanger in the shop, not quite the same model, but he claims that it will work.<\/p>\n

……. To be continued<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t even 2pm yet and Kenny had managed to find two derailleur hangers, exactly the right kind! He’s mailing them as I write this. Who could wish for anything more perfect. Thank you mates, thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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