Friday 26 July Keith set his alarm for 04:45, it was a bit of a shock to the system when it went off, but we all knew it would be a lot cooler riding in the morning. When we went around to the eating area you could tell we were all thinking the same thing, that wind seems worse than yesterday. After breakfast packed up all the gear and set off, sure enough the wind was worse struggling to ride above 6 mph. We just toiled along, using every bit of energy we had. Linny and I stopped and waited for Kieth, he explained that his crank was making a horrible noise, he stopped and tighten it up, but the noise was still there. We finally made it our first stop at 36 miles. Had lunch and took on loads of fluids. When we were ready to we realised that Keith's crank needed to be stripped down and cleaned out. We tried to carry on but to no avail, Linney checked the map looked like there was a train station further on, so we limped to the station found out there was a train to Beyneu in 3 1/2 hours time, we all sat down and took stock, decided to take the train for the last 20 miles and use the time to service the bikes etc. Obviously getting three fully laden bikes onto an all ready over crowed train was a bit of a nightmare but we managed it, it was the same at Beyneu station but all part of the journey. Eventually got out of the station, found an hotel, in the chaos settle down with a beer always seems to make thing right.