Have Bike, Will Travel
IT WAS DAY ONE ON THE RIDING TRIP OF A LIFETIME. Acclimatising in the Catalan hills near Girona in northern Spain, in preparation for later tackling the most revered cols of the Pyrenees as part of the Haute Route 2018. But in the blink of an eye – or, more precisely, the pop of a tyre – everything changed for accomplished Sydney rider and racer, Matt Wells, from Dulwich Hill Cycle Club.
“We’d been out for our very first ride in Girona, up through the mountains, and were about 20km from home,” Matt recalls. “We were descending back towards town, taking things pretty easy, when one of the guys we were with from Israel Cycling Academy had a tyre blow out. Without warning he cut straight in front of me and took out my front wheel. I went into the air at about 50kmh and ended up unconscious on the roadside. They thought I was dead.”
Thankfully, Matt wasn’t
