Broken Bike

Oh dear, my beautiful new Specialized Roubaix Expert is broken! There is a crack in the frame where the cross bar joins the seat stays and the seat tube. How this happened I do not know, but for now the bike has had to go back to Specialized. I certainly hope that they will simply swap it for a new one, but as mine was an '07 model I doubt if they have any. Ho hum, maybe I will get an '08 model instead.

Thank goodness I have another bike to train on. My trusty Allez Elite will have to bear the brunt for a while now, although it is pretty mucky after a wet ride last week. I suppose I am lucky that it happened now and not on the main event. Still I am sorry that my pride & joy has to go to the knackers yard.