So I went tiling on Tuesday as it finally stopped snowing/sleeting/hailing/blowing a gale. Yay!
Went to fill car up but forgot mask so back home. Fueled up and it's an hour and a half drive, mostly on motorway and I'm ready to set off. Decide to put GoPro on for climb out of Oxenhope as drivers were being well drivers and camera beeps to say no. Thought I'd forgot to put card in, but I later discover camera had turned itself on and recorded my office wall until 128GB card was full. Voice control is not always a good thing when it mistakes other random speech for instructions.
1.5km in and the hill gets steeper. A lot steeper, 18% in places and it's very hard work. Get to flat section and notice chain is misbehaving as I ease up on pedals. Turns out wheel was binding, so no wonder the climb was really tough. Though my lack of long rides/fitness didn't help either. I try and fettle bike and then cassette stops freewheeling entirely. I console myself at least it wasn't half way around like last time this part failed. I limp back to car on my now fixie, which is always harder going down than up and visit the bike shop in nearby Hebden Bridge. As I expected, no spare part for obscure non standard widget. What was not expected was a parking ticket. Hadn't realised spot became a clearway half an hour into my 1 hour parking. Duh! I have little concept of time/day of week/month anymore. Then a two and a half hour drive to get back for various boring reasons, the first hour of which felt like 5 hours as bladder was very full and nowhere to stop to empty it for way too long.
So £84 in parts/ticket, 4 hours driving and I get a whopping 3 tiles. Woohoo!
On the upside I can at least skip those tiles and the 18% climb when I return to do the rest of loop.