Covid Blog 24

Today I was awake at about 6.30 am with a brief look at the news which seemed brighter for Australia on the Covid front. 

The news overnight was bad on the local front where 4 Victorian Police were killed on the Eastern freeway near where I live. Seems that the police were dealing with a speeding driver on the freeway when a truck swerved to the emergency lane and cleaned them up. The driver of the speeding car escaped injury and fled the scene after taking photos of the accident... he failed to render any assistance to the victims of the accident. It was later advised that this idiot had posted the photos on Facebook!

This morning I decided to have a ride and travel along the bike path near where this tragedy took place. The bike path was closed off understandably as the crime was still being investigated. I managed to talk to the 2 police who were standing on the bike path to block us from proceeding along the journey. I expressed my sincere condolences to the policemen on the tragedy and we had a good chat about the situation. 

Setting off again I felt a real sense of loss about the situation but was brought back to the ride again with a real clunky sound in the crank area which sounded like a lot of trouble. On thinking about this further I decided to try and visit the bike shop in Tooronga to get their opinion on the crank. Cycleinn are very good and the crew led by Matt are very experienced and provided the bike lasted the distance I was confident that they could get a fix sorted...

Yes ... I made it and Matt and the team did not let me down... the problem seems to be in the bottom bracket which was adjusted to give me result pending a full service scheduled next week.

Seems that bike shops are now busier than ever with a lot of people buying bikes to provide a break from home life in the lockdown.At Cycleinn an Australian legend motor car driver Mark Skaife was looking to buy a bike.... I said to Matt that a bike for Mark would put him in the slow lane!!

The ride home was uneventful fortunately and I enjoyed a bit of the fine Autumn weather. 

Arriving home I took the 2grandchildren on a walk around the streets locally which was great... we picked up some gumnuts and enjoyed a shorter ride together 

After returning home it was lunch then showered and changed to get ready for the Zoom call for Alkira 

After the call it was time to finally finish the painting of the front bay windows... all good and very pleased with the results... another heap to go though!

After tidying up it was pleasing to look at the job completed in part at least 

All good on another day even if there was sadness regarding the 4 police who died in the line of duty 

Now for the photos....

Eastern freeway... blocked off for investigation as a crime scene 

Another view of the freeway ....

Today’s ride