Interestingly I was in the south of france for 2 weeks and returned home on Sunday night. below the Lille area of France in the North all the way down to Nice etc the temperature has been in the 40's. When I rode down in 2 days in daylight and rode back in daylight in 2 days to Lille, the temp read a steady 88 degrees with very very hot weather and the bike fully loaded with tailpack panniers etc. After ferry trip and back in blighty which was much cooler and now was dark and slightly dampish, the temp fluctuated from 84 to 90 cycling up and down over a period of around a minute. I was riding in the exact same speeds and styling.
Until I read this thread I was starting to worry that something had been damaged on the ferry.
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