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@LittleHeather
Ok, so my near miss yesterday....
Got to my dance class and lifted my bike slightly to get it into position to lock up to drainpipe and my back wheel falls out!!!
Had a look and the spindle wasn't there - WTF?!?!
Fortunately I was only about a mile away from home, but still had to carry it on my shoulder with the back wheel in other hand (cue a couple of sarky comments from passers by, but funnily enough no offers to help carry the bloody thing!).
Turns out that when I was practicing clipping in and out the other day, the other half had taken the spindle out of this bike to pop onto the one we used on the turbo trainer and forgot to put it back in! I can't believe I rode about a mile without it in and without the wheel coming out! Lucky.