Countdown Continues

"Make sure you have spare spokes in your kit list" said the Holiday Instructions (amongst many other things).  Well we do for the Hewitt tourers, but not for the hard-tails we're taking to India so off to Evans I trot with the four wheels to be measured up. Hmmm. It turned out that my wheels had aluminium spoke nipples rather than the brass nipples on Anne's wheels. Which of course meant, after 15 years, that I had nipples comprising largely of aluminium oxide, many of which were actually cracked!  So, £80 worse off, I collected my rebuilt wheels yesterday and am now waiting for a frost-free day with winds below 20mph to take a ride and check them out.