Aug/091
Day 38 – Day off in Pueblo
Today I got up earlier than the others so decided to clean my bike rather than take it to the bike shop for them to do the same in exchange for a few dollars. I finished this and surprise surprise the others were still asleep so I headed down to the bike shop to buy some inner tubes and some brake pads which probably should have been changed about a thousand miles ago, but hey student loans mean you have to risk your brakes not working down the odd mountain or two!
I got back to the room and the others were just about ready to drop their bikes in for a service and head to breakfast. We were recommended a dodgy sandwich shop, Cal didn’t fancy this so with the limited distance we could go with no bikes we went to Subway for brunch.
Most of the day was spent waiting for the bikes. It’s a big city but like most places over here there’s not a lot to do without transport and where we were staying only seemed to have banks and insurance companies!
We did some laundry then we went back to the bike shop to check if Cal’s bike was ready and found out that they’d have to replace the bearings in the headset. A few weeks ago Callum found that he couldn’t turn his handlebars at all; we were worried, but he wrenched them round and suddenly they were OK! We just put it down to Reidy luck and carried on. When we noticed that the guys on the bike shop in Pueblo really knew their sh*t, we asked them to have a look at it. This is what was left of the piece of metal which holds the bearings in the headset of Callum’s bike:
Knackered. The bike techies sorted it out for a very reasonable price and they then recommended a pub to us just down the road where we could get some dinner and a nice real ale, on the way there Cal saw happy hour at a dodgy place so we went there first. We did get to the recommended pub and had a nice shepherds pie for tea.
Next we were off to the cinema, however on the way for almost the exact duration of our ride the heavens opened. Not looking forward to sitting in an air conditioned room soaked and freezing our Jacobs off; we went to Walmart to buy some cheap T-Shirts, then headed to the cinema.
After the film we headed back to Walmart for some bananas etc… and went back to bed