Off we set in our “easy” short morning, that part of the description of the day was maybe less than accurate. One hill that we went down just before lunch was a ski lift slope and when our lead rider set off down the hill I was starting mouth agape at an impossible decent. turns out it was actually possible, our lead rider (who came 16th in Romaniacs btw… no big deal) did it with ease. A few invulantary dismounts later we were at lunch.
A classic Romanian peasants platter (meat, cheese, tomato, onion and some delicious sour dough) was lunch today, and fairly typical of the food we've been eating the whole time.
The afternoon ride started off with some great flowing single tracks, however our flow was interrupted by a flat tyre at a Romanian logging camp, we sorted that out and off we went on some nice fast logging roads, then disaster struck.
A rider down! A proper crash with a bike missing its water pump and leaking all is vital fluid into a muddy puddle. Surely this was the end.
As it turns out, the service here and the luck of the gods combined to have Jake back to us in under half an hour on another bike, happy as Larry.
The day concluded with some raucous laughter with one of the Germans on the tour as well as a fleet of fully repaired and perfectly functioning bikes.
I think we're onto a good thing here.
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