dawn & bike mishaps

i slept through the dawn project yesterday, and vowed to get it this morning, but i woke up at the point where i was supposed to be taking the shot, which is at least 15/20 minutes away from my bed...

i started going through the motions and in fact got out there on the roads, on lilith - dinah's bike - but it was so light, the sequence would have been so wrong, i turned back...

it is a beautiful day as well, it would have been a great day for filming...

so i'm currently downloading the latest demo of carina's voyager so i can work out what time tomorrow morning i need to be out there to get roughly the same amount of light as if it was thursday morning, maybe it'll just be a minute or two before, maybe 15 minutes...

so for the 3rd morning i'm waking up with my alarm at that ungodly hour, only this time i'll get out of bed when i should...

and it turns out that it'll be very similar, if i'm there either at the same time or maybe a couple of minutes earlier...

ok so the bike, a strange problem began last week directly after i fixed a puncture on the back wheel (only ever on the back wheel)... i cycled from work to the royal albert hall where we were being taken to see cirque du soleil, all the musicians from the 4 way improvisation were there, all being staff at hammersmithwork whose do it was...

it was great, particularly two men being lifted with ropes and leather straps and swinging about... very beautiful...

anyway i was cycling home and i felt a regular sensation which became a regular sound in the bike...

i looked down and there was a bulge in the back wheel where the inner tube was coming out from the outer tube at one point... very strange... i let out some air, pumped it up again and carried on my way... this happened twice more in the same journey...

anyway i didn't use the bike the next day but when i came to use it again it seemed to have fixed itself... (famous last words)...

so i was cycling it happily again up until wednesday when i was just about to cycle home from work when i noticed it had done it again... so i did the same thing, let out the air a little, sorted it out, pumped it up, and went on my way, within 5 minutes it was bulging again and in fact i didn't have time to stop before it burst...

so i walked it to the bike shop i like and chained it to a lamppost, got to go down there today and take it in to the shop... that's two hammersmith thursdays i've missed cycling to now...

now is it worth going back to bed?

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