Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
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Below 10°F: Add long underwear under my long pants. If I'm still in ventilated cycling shoes I might add a second layer of socks depending on my mood. At this point if I'm wearing clipless shoes my feet are going to be extremely cold no matter how many socks I put on.<snip>
I may have mentioned this, but for those really cold days, I sure do love my Mobile Warming socks from Costco:
https://fieldsheer.com/products/powe...8NksyK7-MoYRBi
Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
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Dropped my chain twice switching from the small ring to the big ring. That's annoying and I haven't figured out how to solve this issue. Some days I have no problems, and others (like today) it plagues me. When this happens the chain likes to hang up between the lower ring and the bottom bracket, preventing the pedals from turning. That makes it so I can't use the old trick of moving the front derailleur to a higher gear and pedaling the chain back on to the ring. Thankfully on my road bike I use wax for lubricant so when I stop and fix it my hands don't turn into a greasy mess. I've also fixed it so many times that once I'm off the bike it's literally 10 seconds or less to get the chain back on the ring.
You probably already look for this, but are your sprockets in good shape? Between the teeth are not elongated, are they?
When it's time to change, you might want to go to a skip tooth design, where each tooth is not ground the same.
My chain's been acting up on my Level.2. I measured the chain and it is past the 0.75% wear setting on the chain tool. No problem, time for a new chain after only 2300 miles. However, I notice the sprockets are wallered out a bit too. I let it go way too long without lube last winter and now I'm paying the price.