Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
There is still a bit of snow lingering here and there, but most of it has melted. There is also plenty of ice, but nothing I can't ride around with a little care. I took the road bike.
That's just what it's like here, but slightly warmer. We're fresh out of ice now. Now, it's just wet all the time, with the snow from the last month or so melting little by little.
Originally Posted by
Tundra_Man
I had a dentist appointment scheduled this morning at 8 AM, so I rode there first. I had scheduled the appointment long before we made travel plans. Then an hour later I rode to a client's office where I discovered that somehow they didn't realize I was going to be gone for two weeks, even though I had been stating that fact since Thanksgiving in my weekly status updates. That tells me they don't read them.
I bet they read at least one of them when you didn't show up!
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No bike commute for me today, as it's supposed to start raining around 3 and rain all evening. Plus, I need to pick up my daughter 20 miles away at 4:45 directly after work.
I took the cage to work and will take the opportunity to make the run up to the LBS over lunch to pick up some bar ends for the new single speed. While I'm there, I'm bringing the rear wheel from the single speed for a bit of help from the mechanics there. I'm working on replacing the freewheel with one that's one tooth larger to gear it down a bit. Can't get the old freewheel off, even though I bought the special socket for it. It seems to be a cheap freewheel that's on the hub, as the recessions where the socket goes in are kind of rounded, rather than sharp-edged. The socket just cams out as soon as I apply any torque to it. If I keep trying, I'm going to round things off. I will give the LBS a shot before I put an impact socket on the freewheel socket. I might've tried it last night, but I don't have the right size socket at home. 1-1/16" is too big and 15/16" and 23 mm are too small, so I'm guessing it's 1". I'll bring a 1" impact socket from work with me when I go up there.
It's things like this that remind me why Treks cost more money than cheap bikes. Sometimes, the overall package on a cheaper bike is attractive, but they just use these garbage components that ruin the experience as soon as a fellow needs to do any work on them.