I'm guessing you mean the tracks between 12th and 13th ave? Are you biking from the North-West end of the city? I bike downtown from the NW and go under the same tracks and it has gotten nearly impassable, but I have only had to actually walk once. I'm wondering if you're the guy who blew by me the other morning...
Originally Posted by
gecho
-2C with an 11kph head wind. I wore my porus wool balaclava and was a bit chilly at the start, but was fine after a little while. This one spot where I need to get on a sidewalk to go under train tracks is bumpy and covered in ice now, unridable and barely walkable.
The bar end shifter for my rear deraileur has been shifting sloppily on upshifts for quite some time, but I hadn't been using the bike enough since the summer to let it bother me until this week. It was feeling like the toggle that goes between friction and indexing mode wasn't fully engaged. I looked at the shifter last night and saw a loose wire, so I initially thought maybe the cable was to blame. But then I looked closer and saw that the indexing ring was broken clean through in one spot at the bottom. It probably happened while I was on a tour during the summer. When they put the bikes in a trailer my shifter got bashed hard enough to lose the plastic lever cap, and apparently broke the ring too.
I don't think that part is sold separately, so I'll probably need a whole new pair of Dura Ace bar ends. I guess try some epoxy or tape first.