In my ramblings of a few days ago I mentioned that pROJECT mAYHEM was losing power steering fluid and that it was, hopefully, going to prove to be a cheap fix. Yeah right - this is pROJECT mAYHEM we are speaking about here so the chances of a cheap fix are somewhere about the same as me climbing 8a... Turns out that the problem is the steering rack itself leaking - £300 to get reconditioned plus labour on top of that. Just as bad is a whole week with the van stuck in the garage because the market for reconditioned steering racks is not that big so they get done on an ad hoc basis. I could have had it back today if I had been prepared to bolt on a new one but the extra £200+ that would have cost soon put that idea to bed. Bugger!!
Anyway after receiving this great news it was a simple choice between climbing wall and pub - I eventually decided that I could do both and hit the Climbingworks with Duncan Disorderly and Tim. For the first time back on plastic in ages it went OK - got a fair few problems done, fell off some other stuff and generally had a good time socialising - all the best things about climbing on the plastic really. One thing I am going to have to suggest though is that the Climbingworks offer free entry for the best sob story of the day - I reckon I would have been a 100% cert yesterday if this genuinely brilliant idea had been implemented before now.
Following the wall it was off to the Sheaf for part deux of the evenings grand plan. It was the usual Thursday night scene with climbers everywhere so more talk about climbing and the like followed and the night was completed when I was asked by Dave Thomas to go and do some trad sometime soon...
Following the wall it was off to the Sheaf for part deux of the evenings grand plan. It was the usual Thursday night scene with climbers everywhere so more talk about climbing and the like followed and the night was completed when I was asked by Dave Thomas to go and do some trad sometime soon...
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