We had a good challenge that day, it was going to be a tough ride due the sharp slopes up we had to ride at the beginning of the track, but the kids surprised me again. They showed me how in such a good shape they are and they had no problems to ride up the hills.
After 10 km riding up hill the good part finally started. we enjoyed ourselves speeding up our bikes while we faced the down hills, but then, one of our mates shouted " slow down! I think I have a flat tire!" actually he didn't have one, he had flat tires in both wheels!!
The point is that he didn't follow the rules we created at the beginning of this mountain bike riding experience; We always use helmet and we must take at least two new inner tube with us.
He just had one new inner tube and plus it didn't match the wheel, Fortunately, the teacher had two new inner tubes with him so he could fix the problem.
We started riding again, but just 1 km away another kid had a flat tire! and again he forgot to take new inner tubes with him.
It was getting late and we were running out of time before dusk so the teacher lead the group to the closer road and asked the kids to wait there until he came back.
The teacher had to ride as fast as he could to the high school to pick up the car and drove back to where the kids were waiting.
Definitely it was the only solution to haul back the bike and the kid, because, keep in mind, that we were about 8 km away from school.
To come back the teacher order the kids to line up and ride back while he was closing the group with the car.
From now one there will be searching before leaving the school everyday!
Here you have some pics of the day:
Click below if you want to check the track:
http://es.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=11465020
El lunes pasado fui en bicicleta en extraescolares. Yo iba con la bici nueva. Salimos a las cuatro de la tarde. La salida era chulísima, pero después de cruzar la carretera, uno de los Navas pinchó la dos ruedas. Después de cambiarlas, dos kilómetros más adelante pinchó el Jaume. El Lluís tuvo que ir solo al IES por qué el Jaume no tenía recámara de recambio. Cuando llegó cargamos la bici del Jaume al coche y bajamos hasta aquí por carretera.
Josep Padullés Hernández
