"She canna take it captain..."

After work yesterday I figured out exactly what spare parts we needed and Steve picked them up. We then rushed to screwfix before it shut to buy some more tools including a huge adjustable spanner. I find using tools like this always makes me feel like my dad. :) kinda cool

Well after working into the dark we finally had the old broken parts out, the frame cleaned and the new parts in. Steve gave some test rides up and down the close and after a few tweaks and some fine tuning the pedals seem to run nice and smoothly and the gears have had their performance improved too. So far this looks like a good job.

I also took the opportunity to attach my rack to my bike whilst the tools were out and also figure out the little trip computer I bought (it was a shiny gadget in the bike shop and I couldnt resist). Hopefully the trip computer will help us keep track of our distances each day.

Steve and I plan to take the bikes for a short ride tonight to see how they behave so fingers crossed...