Roadside repairs..

[Hugh Barnes]

I also lost an offisde rear wheel once. I was at some traffic lights at a T junction. The lights turned green and the rear wheel shot past me, across the main road and disappeared into a rather deep ditch the other side of the road. It took a while to find the wheel amonst all the reeds.

However, this was at 5pm the night before my wedding which was taking place the next morning, at the time, the Box was my only form of transport. The first photo in the wedding album is a picture of my best man and I repairing the rear wing that got torn as it hit the road when the wheel made its exit...