jacojoco's blog

I had 5 hours from 10am to 3pm to get to Emu Heights (from Frenchs Forest), ride Nepean River to Yellowmundee, do a lap and get back to pick up my kid from Preschool. I figured 1hr our, 3hrs to do the trails and a lap and 1 hr back.

I lost 20 minutes in a M7 smash where traffic was stopped and only 1 lane open. Thus would have to cut back the Yellowmundee lap.

I found a spot to park at beginning of Nepean ride amongst 20 odd bong bottles, Maccas rubbish. It was 33 degrees and 11:30am.

I finally upgraded my Apollo Ascension to a 2008 GT Avalanche 1 tonight. Got it home and did 2 laps in the backyard to feel it out. It had a click sound thru the gears and then "Bang", the rear derailer holder snapped in two (forged aluminium/steel? - Broken). It looks like the chain wasnt set up right and the holder is definitely not up to grade. Lucky I wasnt half way out at Manly Dam or Cascades. Anyway back to the shop tomorrow - bugger as I was going out tomorrow at 6:30am, which I still will on the Apollo. These things happen!!!