Another sunny day, another bike ride and crunching gears ...

Another beautiful day and after being stuck inside all day long, I opted out of going to Steps class tonight and paying for the privilege of being stuck in AGAIN - instead I went out on my bike for FREE! 

I had a lovely ride, however, every time I shift gears the chain stutters and crunches and doesn't seem to grab hold smoothly. Sometimes when I'm in gear and pedalling uphill it just crunches unexpectedly , as if the chain is about to come off. What could the problem be? I'm thinking of booking it in for a service so that I know its safe as the brakes also seem to be a little squeaky too!!  Perhaps its just groaning and moaning about being out and about after 6 months wrapped up in my garage!


Anyway, apart from thinking I was going to have to sort my chain out on several occasions I enjoyed the ride, even though I still didn't wear any sunglasses as I couldn't locate them anywhere!  Looks like I will have to invest in a new pair! Talking of which I have been researching on the internet tonight and quite fancy a pair with photochromic lenses rather than the interchangeable ones.  The sunglasses I can't find had interchangeable lenses but I never changed the lenses whatever the weather - just kept the same ones in!  Anyone got any good tips/reviews?


I did just over 20 miles tonight, in 1 hour 30 minutes, although I did seem to sit at traffic lights forever! View tonights run here!