We found that Petrie's Bicycle Shop in Thunder Bay was really good on a previous ride, and planned to stop there to have our bikes maintained this time around. Accordingly, we booked our motel here for two nights and called ahead to the bike shop. This morning we had a nice leisurely breakfast and left for the bike shop at 8:30 AM for their 9 AM opening. Wouldn't you know it. I had a flat front tire so we pushed our bikes to the shop. The mechanic was impressed with the dirt in the sprockets etc. As it turned out, Gramie's bike needed a good clean up of the chain and sprockets along with adjustments to the shifters. Mine needed more. He replaced the chain and rear sprocket cassette as well as the front inner tube. My bike needed everything adjusted and the brake discs cleaned. I thought that we were set for the remainder of the trip.
While we were waiting for the bikes, we went to the White Cedar walk-in clinic to have Gramie's persistent cough addressed. The doctor prescribed a different antibiotic, levofloxacin. Distance today was 8km to the shop and back.
We were fortunate to have picked today for our bike maintenance because the skies opened up a couple of times and poured buckets on the city. Had we been biking, we would have been soaked. Later a car driver told us that he had to pull off the highway for a few minutes because of the intensity of the rain. The storm appears to have moved on so perhaps tomorrow will be a good cycling day.
Petrie's Bicycle shop- Gramie and the mechanic who serviced our bikes.
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