On Thursday I rode down to Bikeline to get a new rear derailleur fitted. Fitting and adjusting would take an hour - hour and a half, so I took my sketch book and wandered down the street.

I was standing in the carpark behind Rowes next to a low retaining wall looking for something to draw when a car approached to park.

I stepped to the side, caught my foot on a kerb beside the wall and started to go sideways. Rather than fall, I tried to sit down on the wall.

I sat on the wall but kept going in slow-mo backwards into the garden until I was laying on crushed bushes with my legs up on the wall.

The driver rushed over and grabbed my hand to help me up, but I nearly dragged him in with me!

I rolled over crushing more plants and he helped me up when I got to my knees!

The gardener turned up, cleaned up my mess and said not to worry about it. She then pointed out the praying mantis on my hat.

There is a coffee shop at the corner of Rowes, so I had a cappuccino and sketched. A lady came past, said she was the owner and asked for a photo of it.

I then ambled back to the bike shop and cycled home.

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For the last six months I've had the goal of riding 4000 km by the end of the year. I'm getting pretty close.
Today I did my longest ride ever 102.5 km! So now I only have 92 km to go.

I rode from Toowoomba to Pittsworth via Wyreema and Southbrook. I had coffee and a sandwich while I did a quick sketch and topped up my battery at the bakery.

My route back was mostly untrafficed gravel roads to Cambooya, then asphalt to Wyreema and on to Toowoomba.

I thought I would lose control and crash a couple of times; at an intersection where I hit loose banked up gravel, and when I rode across some corrugations at speed.

I almost lost my action camera when the home made camera mount broke from the jolting. Luckily when it broke the camera fell forward and it hit me in the head.

The final 20 km were slow as one battery was flat and the other nearly so. I saved it for the final climb to home.

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I snapped this pick of my trike while I was out running normal errands yesterday. Hot with a strong breeze, not many clouds. I've got a 5 gallon jug of water and 20 pounds of cat litter in the trailer, plus my regular weekly haul of groceries

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This morning's trike ride followed my usual route until I detoured to the eastville shops. I bought a capaccino then rode back up to Picnic Point. I parked the trike on the grass and did another sketch of the water tower.

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It was very sunny in the park today. Must organise new prescription sunglasses!

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On Sunday I intended to go for a ride with the Toowoomba Region BUG but got up too late. I went for a solo ride. I rode up to Picnic Point, past the city airport and showgrounds, then to Westbrook. I crossed over the highway and through farmlands to another main road.

As I rode, the assist bar the motor controls and rear vision mirror are mounted on came loose and fell on my lap, only held on by the electric wires. l stopped and fixed it.

I followed that road until I realised that it joined back onto the highway that I had crossed. I did a U-turn and continued on almost to Wyreema before I turned off and looped back to Toowoomba.

The ride was 55 km and battery number one lasted almost all the way home.

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