Jen Crosby's Racing Blog

Tuesday January 16, 2007

Van disaster

Well I said 2007 felt like it was going to be an eventful year, and so far it's not in a good way.

 Driving up to see Red in Guildford yesterday lunchtime and the van decided to give up the ghost.  I was already having just about the worst day I could have dreamt up, and was pretty much fighting off the tears even before the van decided to conk out!  I called out the AA, who were thankfully really quick cos it was bloomin' freezing and I couldn't sit in the van as I was pulled over on the side of a very fast stretch of main road.  The mechanics guess was that it might be the bottom end gone.  Great, so that'll be a new engine if that's the case.  Other possibilities could be a slipped timing belt, but of course until the garage take a look I won't know for sure.  The AA mechanic called a recovery truck out, and I got taken back to my local garage in Basingstoke.  I'll know more later today what the damage is.

 I'm feeling really down at the moment, I seriously hope that changes soon, as right now, I don't feel like I've got the motivation to do anything at all, let alone get my bike and my head ready for a good season's racing.

( Jan 16 2007, 09:10:49 AM GMT+00:00 )

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