Today was a nice relaxing day with a 2 hour easy endurance ride.
The day started with a trip into Aalst to buy a SatNav and some inner tubes. Fortunately for me there are two big electrical stores on the way to Van Eycks mega bike shop so apart from not wanting a Navman, that's the one that's let me down already I was open to suggestions in the store, providing it was cheap.
So couldn't have been easier to walk out of the store programme in my 'preferences' and fire it up. Shouldn't get lost anymore this trip anyway. On to Van Eycks ostensibly for some inner tubes with a 60mm valve stem whichh I got OK except when I got them back and compared them with the conti 60mm's I have been using they seem a bit short, so I'm not sure now if they are really to short I won't be able to pump them up. Of course its hard to go into Van Eycks just for inner tubes, they have a great display of new bikes and frames, they also had just put out the Cervelo team summer (white) gear which I think looks quite good but when I examined it closely I wasn't impressed although its made by Castelli it's cheap replica gear, nothing like the team gear.
I rode towards Oudenarde, its a reasonable ride with some rolling hills for a bit of variety. I didn't go out til around midday and discovered with all retail closing down for a period at lunch time it was really quite quiet.
Cleaned my bike this afternoon and watched the tour. Is it me or is the tour this year incredibly boring? If it weren't for Mr Cavendish's incredible sprinting I might give up watching. Something has to happen in the Alps doesn't it?
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