Mishaps

 We love to bike, but it isn't all fun and games.

It's Sunday! It's warm! It's sunny! We have yummy Sunday breakfast, this time German. We haven't done that in a while - Leberwurst, Schinken, boiled eggs in the egg cups with egg warmers....It was good, and we ate outside. That's been not the usual this year.

Where to go? We went back and forth and finally decided to take the train a bit south of the city center and tool around there and wander back.  Well, best laid plans and all that!

We'd barely got started when my bike was behaving badly. Making noise. Not steering well.  What's up? A flat tire, that's what's up! Werner can do this,  In fact, he had to change out the tube in his back wheel twice in the last couple of weeks.  He had all the tools he needed, he knew what to do, so he just did it. 

 In the rain.

What a pain.  Now what?  Sigh.  We decide a cup of coffee and a bit of cake would help, so we did that, just barely getting to the bakery before it closed (it's Sunday).  Then we decided that was about enough for one day and went back to the local station to get home again. THEN we decided a little more riding would be OK and trusted his repair to get us home. But then the wheel started making weird noises and we second-guessed ourselves. Oh, what a mess!!

We made it home and Werner immediately checked out possible probs and found a solution and fixed it! Thank you Werner!

Then he thought, I should see if the car battery is still OK. Grrrrrr.  No go. No start. Honestly, it was a bit of a frustrating weekend. 

As Werner's mom said quite often, It coulda been worse.