Out of Action

Andy headed off in the car yesterday morning to the usual long run at Hackett. The girls and I were intending to ride over to a 4 year old birthday party in Kaleen. The plan was for Andy to come over after his run and join the action as well as providing us with a lift home. Everything started well...Andy off on his run and the girls in the bike trailer ready for partying!

About 15 mins into our predicted 45 min trip disaster struck. I was crossing at some lights on Hayden Drive (a fairly busy dual lane road for non canberrans) when there was a loud clunk and suddenly I couldn't move. In fact I nearly stacked it trying to unclip my bike shoe. On turning around the bike trailer was on an awful angle with one wheel detached.

Trying to move a broken bike trailer with two girls off the road was difficult. On closer inspection two bolts on the axel had sheared off resulting in dislodging the suspension from the axel and as I touched the bolts on the other side - one fell off! Luckily there were no bent bits or damaged to the rest of the trailer.

We were in a dilemma - too far from home to walk back, definitely too far from the party to continue, grandparents out of town, friends all busy doing stuff and Andy still running. The area we broke down in wasn't particularly child friendly and there were heaps of big ants! Our solution after wandering around for a bit was to have morning tea at the bus stop shelter about 100m down the road and wait for Andy to read his mobile.

50 minutes later we were rescued and proceeded to Loic's b'day party arriving fashionably late! Needless to say the trailer is out of action until we can source some new bolts.