So the ride home wasn't so pleasant yesterday after a STRONG crosswind pushed me into a double recessed railroad track and just enough of an angle where the double track tried to grab my tire and twist. I was quite frightened for a moment!

By the time I got home I could hear the rubbing at regular intervals on my fender, and I knew that my rear wheel was badly out of true.

Took it to the LBS this morning and said as much. The kid looks at it and declares "that's because you've got a broken spoke." So much for my keen powers of observation.

The kicker is this: There are two things I don't know how to do on bikes. Bottom brackets, and wheel building/trueing.

And I really really need to learn, because it's going to take TWO WEEKS to get my rear wheel back!

So two weeks without my favorite steed. I definitely need to learn to do this myself.