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Do a ride around Mercedes Benz Stadium this afternoon and post pictures.
Bike to the Stadium
Do a ride around Mercedes Benz Stadium this afternoon and post pictures.
Bike to the Stadium
RIP GHWB
02-03-19, 12:02 PM
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02-03-19, 12:08 PM
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02-03-19, 12:11 PM
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02-03-19, 12:35 PM
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Excuse the blog post.
I stopped weighing myself in Oct, when my outdoor riding season was winding down and (more to the point) when the batteries in my scale died. It only took me four months, but I finally got some replacement batteries (I mean, really, why would you spec AAAs in a scale? It's not like you don't have room for AAs instead
) and started tracking my weight again. The bad/expected news is that I've gained weight since. The good news, and what I'm choosing to focus on, is that, last year, it took me until June or so to reach my current weight. So yeah, I'm fatter and undoubtedly too fat for this sport, but I'm also four months ahead of last year's pace. #silverliningoftheextralayer
I stopped weighing myself in Oct, when my outdoor riding season was winding down and (more to the point) when the batteries in my scale died. It only took me four months, but I finally got some replacement batteries (I mean, really, why would you spec AAAs in a scale? It's not like you don't have room for AAs instead
) and started tracking my weight again. The bad/expected news is that I've gained weight since. The good news, and what I'm choosing to focus on, is that, last year, it took me until June or so to reach my current weight. So yeah, I'm fatter and undoubtedly too fat for this sport, but I'm also four months ahead of last year's pace. #silverliningoftheextralayer
02-03-19, 12:42 PM
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02-03-19, 12:51 PM
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02-03-19, 02:13 PM
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Excuse the blog post.
I stopped weighing myself in Oct, when my outdoor riding season was winding down and (more to the point) when the batteries in my scale died. It only took me four months, but I finally got some replacement batteries (I mean, really, why would you spec AAAs in a scale? It's not like you don't have room for AAs instead) and started tracking my weight again. The bad/expected news is that I've gained weight since. The good news, and what I'm choosing to focus on, is that, last year, it took me until June or so to reach my current weight. So yeah, I'm fatter and undoubtedly too fat for this sport, but I'm also four months ahead of last year's pace. #silverliningoftheextralayer
I stopped weighing myself in Oct, when my outdoor riding season was winding down and (more to the point) when the batteries in my scale died. It only took me four months, but I finally got some replacement batteries (I mean, really, why would you spec AAAs in a scale? It's not like you don't have room for AAs instead
) and started tracking my weight again. The bad/expected news is that I've gained weight since. The good news, and what I'm choosing to focus on, is that, last year, it took me until June or so to reach my current weight. So yeah, I'm fatter and undoubtedly too fat for this sport, but I'm also four months ahead of last year's pace. #silverliningoftheextralayerYou can always give up breakfast and lunch for a piece of fruit and a slug of whey powder and make peace with hunger.
02-03-19, 02:41 PM
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02-03-19, 03:12 PM
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02-03-19, 03:15 PM
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Obligatory pic of my wife's follow vehicle (my ICE VTX)
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02-03-19, 03:19 PM
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02-03-19, 03:27 PM
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02-03-19, 03:30 PM
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02-03-19, 03:31 PM
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02-03-19, 03:47 PM
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02-03-19, 04:01 PM
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I have an annoying mechanical question and I will start here before I dare post elsewhere.
On today's ride I noticed that the chain kept dropping whenever I went into the small ring. Even with my chain catcher set up properly, and sometimes the chain would skip when on the small ring. I just decided to do the rest of the ride as a 1X in the big ring, and luckily the route was fairly flat so no biggie.
I got home and cleaned up the bike and put it up in the stand. I soon discovered why the problem happened. I have a slack chain. It isolates to the rear cage of the RD. I lubed the pivot point between the RD body and the cage (by upper jockey wheel) as best as I could, and it's slightly better but still the chain is slack and the return spring action on the cage is weak.
I don't know how wise it is for me to try to disassemble this or if it's just a worn spring/bushing.
The RD is Ultegra 6700 and it has roughly 35K miles on it. I am guessing it may just be worn but I have never had this problem before.
Suggestions??
On today's ride I noticed that the chain kept dropping whenever I went into the small ring. Even with my chain catcher set up properly, and sometimes the chain would skip when on the small ring. I just decided to do the rest of the ride as a 1X in the big ring, and luckily the route was fairly flat so no biggie.
I got home and cleaned up the bike and put it up in the stand. I soon discovered why the problem happened. I have a slack chain. It isolates to the rear cage of the RD. I lubed the pivot point between the RD body and the cage (by upper jockey wheel) as best as I could, and it's slightly better but still the chain is slack and the return spring action on the cage is weak.
I don't know how wise it is for me to try to disassemble this or if it's just a worn spring/bushing.
The RD is Ultegra 6700 and it has roughly 35K miles on it. I am guessing it may just be worn but I have never had this problem before.
Suggestions??
02-03-19, 04:13 PM
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I have an annoying mechanical question and I will start here before I dare post elsewhere.
On today's ride I noticed that the chain kept dropping whenever I went into the small ring. Even with my chain catcher set up properly, and sometimes the chain would skip when on the small ring. I just decided to do the rest of the ride as a 1X in the big ring, and luckily the route was fairly flat so no biggie.
I got home and cleaned up the bike and put it up in the stand. I soon discovered why the problem happened. I have a slack chain. It isolates to the rear cage of the RD. I lubed the pivot point between the RD body and the cage (by upper jockey wheel) as best as I could, and it's slightly better but still the chain is slack and the return spring action on the cage is weak.
I don't know how wise it is for me to try to disassemble this or if it's just a worn spring/bushing.
The RD is Ultegra 6700 and it has roughly 35K miles on it. I am guessing it may just be worn but I have never had this problem before.
Suggestions??
On today's ride I noticed that the chain kept dropping whenever I went into the small ring. Even with my chain catcher set up properly, and sometimes the chain would skip when on the small ring. I just decided to do the rest of the ride as a 1X in the big ring, and luckily the route was fairly flat so no biggie.
I got home and cleaned up the bike and put it up in the stand. I soon discovered why the problem happened. I have a slack chain. It isolates to the rear cage of the RD. I lubed the pivot point between the RD body and the cage (by upper jockey wheel) as best as I could, and it's slightly better but still the chain is slack and the return spring action on the cage is weak.
I don't know how wise it is for me to try to disassemble this or if it's just a worn spring/bushing.
The RD is Ultegra 6700 and it has roughly 35K miles on it. I am guessing it may just be worn but I have never had this problem before.
Suggestions??
#PuttingTheMightyInMightyDougs
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02-03-19, 04:25 PM
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No properly tuned bike should require a chain catcher IMNSHO, assuming properly working parts, of course.
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02-03-19, 04:52 PM
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I have an annoying mechanical question and I will start here before I dare post elsewhere.
On today's ride I noticed that the chain kept dropping whenever I went into the small ring. Even with my chain catcher set up properly, and sometimes the chain would skip when on the small ring. I just decided to do the rest of the ride as a 1X in the big ring, and luckily the route was fairly flat so no biggie.
I got home and cleaned up the bike and put it up in the stand. I soon discovered why the problem happened. I have a slack chain. It isolates to the rear cage of the RD. I lubed the pivot point between the RD body and the cage (by upper jockey wheel) as best as I could, and it's slightly better but still the chain is slack and the return spring action on the cage is weak.
I don't know how wise it is for me to try to disassemble this or if it's just a worn spring/bushing.
The RD is Ultegra 6700 and it has roughly 35K miles on it. I am guessing it may just be worn but I have never had this problem before.
Suggestions??
On today's ride I noticed that the chain kept dropping whenever I went into the small ring. Even with my chain catcher set up properly, and sometimes the chain would skip when on the small ring. I just decided to do the rest of the ride as a 1X in the big ring, and luckily the route was fairly flat so no biggie.
I got home and cleaned up the bike and put it up in the stand. I soon discovered why the problem happened. I have a slack chain. It isolates to the rear cage of the RD. I lubed the pivot point between the RD body and the cage (by upper jockey wheel) as best as I could, and it's slightly better but still the chain is slack and the return spring action on the cage is weak.
I don't know how wise it is for me to try to disassemble this or if it's just a worn spring/bushing.
The RD is Ultegra 6700 and it has roughly 35K miles on it. I am guessing it may just be worn but I have never had this problem before.
Suggestions??
02-03-19, 05:22 PM
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I have a NOS 6700 RD already, so I will play around with the old one and if/when I screw it up (likely) I can just use the new one.
02-03-19, 05:23 PM
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02-03-19, 05:26 PM
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02-03-19, 05:37 PM
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Sad!