Finished wiring the electrics for the camper's new tow bar that I put on last weekend. That means we can now put the bike rack on so we can abandon the camper on campsites and go exploring, or tow the motorbike trailer if we are going to stay overnight for British Cycling events rather than run two vehicles there.
Then dug the old 1990s mountain bikes out of the garage and fettled them back into running order. Mine was just give it a clean and oil the chain, on MrsH's both shifters had failed. They are the old original Shimano 7 speed trigger shifters, the metal ones before they went to the newer plastic "C Deck" style that become standard on low-mid range MTBs. I'd guess her bike is about 1994 - it's a fully rigid Saracen Ruff Trax, that she won in a competition at her work. On both, the lower (pull cable) lever will work for moving one ring on the front or two sprockets on the rear, but whilst they spring back the ratchet mechanism isn't working so they can't be pressed again and pull more (the upper ratchet does work) That mechanism appears to be hidden in the depths of the shifters and spraying with GT85 didn't free it off. I'm assuming it's just old grease gone hard. For the moment I've pulled those off and replaced with the newer ones off an old kids mountain bike that I've been gradually using as a parts donor, but it'll be nice if I can get the original ones back in working order so I'll do a proper strip down of them at some point.
So we now have two working old MTBs that we can use as hack bikes whilst away, and not cry too much if they get nicked (unlike our road bikes).