As it was sunny this morning I thought I’d get a couple of hours out on my bike before the weather turns again. As it turned out my luck wasn’t as good as the weather. I got a couple of miles along the canal and had just turned off the towpath to go around Possil Loch when my chain snapped. Luckily I carry a chain splitter so it would just be case of removing a few links, reconnecting the speed link and I could return home. Unluckily, I dropped half of the speed link and it completely disappeared into the long grass. Ten minutes searching with my nose to the ground and I still couldn’t see any trace of it. No problem, I was only a couple of hundred metres away from the newly reopened bike repair shop at Lambhill Stables.

They had a 10 speed quick link in stock, so I bought that, shortened my chain but not without dropping another half of the quick link I just bought. Thankfully I had put the unlost half of the original in my pocket. So I fitted it and single-sped it home. While I was doing the work the guy in the shop made some comments about my colour co-ordinated bike. If only he knew what was coming next. When I got home I fitted one of the KMC chains I bought cheap last year but hadn’t needed to fit until today.