Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Had the same headwind on the way home last night, only to be hit with it again this morning. Four minutes slower today.

Had ghost shifting on the way home, adjusted out on the fly with the thumb shifter adjusters, but pulled the cable out and gave it a good clean, blasted the shifters and mech and re-indexed. All fine this morning.

Ordered a new gear cable (I have lots of outers) and a new barrel adjuster for the rear mech as it doesnt have alot of adjustment (really old XT mech from the 90's). If the gears play up I'll fit the spares.

 

[biking_fox]

ALso having bike woes, not the gears as they're rohloff, but the chain's jumped 3 mornings in succession at the same set of potholes! I should remember to take it a bit more gently, and also need to adjust the tension when I can get it on a stand.

Otherwise sunshine and cherry blossoms all around. Make the most of it though for tomorrow looks thoroughly grim.

 

[HLaB]

Opened up my shifter last night and everything is moving fine. Except if shift up the cassette the lever to go down the cassette doesn't spring back. You can easily manually press back the lever that pushes it out and all shifts down fine until you shift up again. I could be wrong but I reckon the shoogly train somehow through out a spring. The Ultegra shifters were 2nd hand 10 years back. Hopefully the lbs will have a spring that they can bodge to do what I was doing manually. It'd be a shame to throw away a otherwise functioning shifter and unfortunately shimano only seem to sell shifters in pairs.
I suspect that the next commute to work will be on the Ti gravel bike. I don't really like leaving it in the bike cage all day though.

 

[Arjimlad]

Last night's pissweasel driver. Reported. I'd expect more than a warning letter for this one.

View: https://youtu.be/zdCC_-sgcdI?si=Yu692PMW5YcmsMb9

 

[captain nemo1701]

On my way down the B2B Railway path this morning, bloke on a 'fat bike', ones popular with parents, passed me going the other way. A rat suddenly dashed out from the vegetation to my left, I missed hitting it but it went straight under the wheels of his bike.

 

[HLaB]

On my way down the B2B Railway path this morning, bloke on a 'fat bike', ones popular with parents, passed me going the other way. A rat suddenly dashed out from the vegetation to my left, I missed hitting it but it went straight under the wheels of his bike.

I remember descending the 10% Standingstane Road near Edinburgh airport in the pitch black (a rural road with no foot way or lighting). A pair of eyes suddenly illuminated by lights, appeared almost immediately on my left. Whatever it was (I suspect a cat) jumped out and managed to get through the gap under my BB. Lucky for it I was free wheeling at the time. I think my rear wheel caught its tail though. However, by the time I could stop and cycle back up the hill, whatever it was had scarpered!

 

[fossyant]

Last night's pissweasel driver. Reported. I'd expect more than a warning letter for this one.

View: https://youtu.be/zdCC_-sgcdI?si=Yu692PMW5YcmsMb9

Yikes. I had one edging in on me at slow speed tonight, into my lane. They got an 'Oi' and stopped.

 

[fossyant]

I had a little bit of that 'mystical' tail wind home tonight ! Gears working perfectly, and the cable and new barrel adjuster (I ordered a pair, got six) turned up by the time I was home. Popped them in the tool box for now.

Anyone need a spare barrel adjuster or two ?

Edit, the page showed two, the 'test' said 3 pairs..

 

[spen666]

Bit windy out this morning. My commute is a 20 or so mile loop , First half was hard work, the 2nd half with a tailwind was much easier.
Watching the motorists queuing on the A13 this morning, the Police hit Synchronicity 2 came to mind, and especially these lyrics

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache​