It had to happen but I thought I’d have to wait at least a year. When I got to Clapham Junction for my journey home I found my rear tyre was flat. In fact the tyre had completely come away from the rim. At first I thought that some scrote had let the air out of the tyre but it wasn’t the case.
This will teach me to get a puncture repair kit. I wasn’t completely unprepared having bought a pump a couple of weeks ago when I bought my SPD shoes. Luckily it was a slow puncture so I only had to pump up the tyre three times before I forlornly arrived home on a spongy tyre :-(. I think I have a repair kit that I last used 10 odd years ago. I wonder if the glue is still okay?
Update! No the glue had ‘gone bad’. It’s good to know that the fine art of repairing a puncture is still with me from my Raleigh Grifter days :-). Ames went into Catford and kindly bought me a new repair kit. Q!