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@The_Seldom_Killer
That's a book I want to read.
My favourite tale is of Gary Broad. About 130k into the Bryan Chapman Memorial the chainstay broke at the bottom bracket. I bumped into him at about this point and we came to the conclusion that his ride was pretty much over. I pointed out on the map some bail out options to head for a train.
However, a mile or so up the road he asked a garage on the off chance if they could do a weld for him. They couldn't but set him up with another guy in the town who could. Within a couple of hours he was back on the road so decided to keep going to the next control. He made it just in time so decided he may as well go on to the next one where the organiser was. The bike was still OK then so he decided he would see how far around he could get and managed to finish well in time.
Steel frames and audaxing spirit FTW.