The previous nights rain had slightly tempered the heatwave we'd been experiencing as we headed off on excellent paths through Eschenloe before joining a beautiful off road forest climb.
The joy of the ride was short lived when looking down after hearing an ominous grating sound I was horrified to see my pannier rack arm dragging on my gear cluster after the weight bearing bolt had sheared off (2nd time on trip).
With Kev doubling back and after looking at various options we redistributed the weights and cable tied the arm as a bush mechanics option till I could get to a bike shop. As per Murphys law the breakdown in the forest was miles from nowhere and on some of the roughest terrain on the German trip.
We finally emerged from our Tibet like climb with cable ties holding and a wonderful panorama of the Bavarian Alps stretching past Fussen.
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| Beautiful Bavarian scenery |
Accommodation at Halbech after much searching was in a room you had to turn sideways to enter, the days heat had also turned it into a sauna and the few remaining molecules of air were sucked out when KH decided it was a good time to air his bike riding gear .... this was going to be a long night!
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