Day 2

Sleeping location: Westberry hotel and Thai Restaurant, Bodmin
Distance (km today/total): 114 / 139
Estimated climb (m today/total): 1700 / 2050
Brake pad failures: 1
Day in three words: Cornwall you bitch

A hard day (look at that climb per km!!) thanks to Cornwall’s unique take on “lumpy”. Basically endless 50m climbs at about 8% with no run-in. The elevation chart of the day looks like a seismograph. My untrained legs are hurting, but at least they won’t stay untrained for long. Annoyingly it wasn’t even that pretty, as mid Cornwall just looks a bit like Leicestershire or something. Perfectly nice but not worth the effort in this case.

Maggie is also home to a million different squeaks and rattles which are slowly driving me mad. I think every one of her nuts and bolts has a different noise, partly because I probably didn’t tighten everything up properly in the last minute bike maintenance rush. This culminated in one of my rear brake pads falling off on a fast descent on an A road. Thankfully no damage was done and I learnt a lesson about the proper use of Allen keys. As for the noise, I think my options are a) fastidiously tighten everything until all the noises disappear, or b) give up and accept that stealth mode is unavailable. I predict a) for a few days, then b) b) b).


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