Yep, even 18% can be done with a rowingbike.

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This is the story: we were waiting for Derk’s passage. I wanted to take a picture, so I told Caroleen, jokingly, to take away an ugly white pole that was in the picture.

I could have known…

Derk never passed here, by the way. He too a wrong turn. Again.

At ten minutes to ten Derk leaves for a new day of rowing. Again quite a lot of ascending, but also less hard than Derk is used to. After tomorrow the mountains are finally behind us.

Not much to tell further, just a nice ride.

Good news about the painful foot of Derk: it is less painful already. Any normal person would take a week complete rest, but not Derk, he just rows the pain away.

After ten hours of rowing, with an average of 26,8 km/h and a maximum of 70,9 km/h the ride for today is over. The end is at Tullo which isn’t far from the start of tomorrow, Brive la Gaillarde. Early in de evening Derk steps out of the ambulance (still sounds weird), together with Caroleen and Kees. Rianne and I have prepared the camper while Derk was doing the last piece of his trip.

The camping proofs to be a bad choice. Busy road aside, barking dogs, noisy people, radio’s, everything is there to make sure we’ll have a bad stay.

Good news about the blocked rear hub which Derk had during a decent with more than 50 km/h. After some hard thinking we conclude that the hub didn’t actually block at all. The construction of it prevents blocking. The breaking of the quick release is the real cause. First we thought that it broke because of the failing rear hub, but it broke because it was tightened to much. So: do not tighten your quick release too much (or to little). Anyway, the hub doesn’t have to be redesigned after all.