When I got back, I decided to give the bike a good clean after a hard Winter's cycling with (I'll be honest) not much in the way of maintenance.
Good job I did. Degreased the chain etc and then took of the front wheel to clean inside the forks and noticed a spoke was loose. Then another, and another and in total five spokes came off in my fingers and another 4 were ready to go!!
A trip back to the bike shop confirmed that the wheel was shot, so my bike now has a nice new shiny front wheel!
It has the weirdest spoke configuration but gets decent reviews for a cheapish wheel. Hope it's OK.
Off to Dolgellau with Briony and the girls tomorrow to do a bit of cycling so a nice, gentle week.
The plan is then to do a 30 mile-ish ride on Friday, before my first 100 miler on Sunday up to Craig's in Hexham.
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