The first 12 miles were uneventful.
I then had a clipless moment and fell off after hitting the car in front of me at very slow speed / minimal impact. So much so they had no idea and drove off.
There was a car in front of them turning into the entrance to the car park for Caen Hill locks. I stopped fine when the car behind the one turning did. As the turning car moved off so did the one in front of me so I did too. Then they braked hard and I was still concentrating on clipping in and moving forward so was unprepared for the sudden stop and as I'd only just clipped in and was starting to power on and had to brake hard I then lost balance as I did so and fell off onto the nearside kerb.
Cue slight scratch damage to rear stay of carbon TCR
Said 'Oh bollocks' then got back up and on and rode on.
I went no more than 100 metres when I hit the mother of all pot holes.
It jarred me completely and my bars even dropped in the stem !!
I stopped then as I wanted to inspect my bike. I adjusted the bars and then continued on.
Cue only about one mile and a spoke in my rear wheel went. Bloody marvellous.
I then had to arrange recovery via an annoyed Mrs G and took a day off work. I missed the bus back to Devizes by 6 minutes too !!
Not my day today.