Worst episode ever! Damn, I had my first WTF was I thinking commute yesterday. First off it was a long weekend of seeing friends. We finally made it into Boston to do dinner and drinks with some friends and played some Wii late into the night…seriously addictive and my shoulder still hurts from playing bowling/tennis/baseball until 1:30 AM. Then Sunday we were up early for a trip to IKEA, since some of the things furnished in the apt. were crap. When we moved in there was one frying pan and it was aluminum and super thin so it basically burned everything. Oh, and we couldn’t eat ice cream without breaking the silverware. $40 later and we’ll be able to make it 2 months, ha. Ended up needing to throw some of M&M’s furniture purchases into the Subaru and we dropped it off after dinner. Gave us a chance to go for a dusk ride at Leominster State Park, a quick 4.5 mile jaunt on some nice rocky singletrack. Ended up back home after midnight, setting me up for a late morning.
Up late, putting my stuff together and then off to work on the bike. Get into work and realize I left my work badge at home. Go get a temporary pass and down to the gym to shower off. Oh wait, I also left my towel at home and my gym locker key. Great… So shower up, air dry with a pop into the sauna and luckily the locker room has a general use hair dryer. So work work work and then cut out to head home. Get back on the bike and push towards my big downhill, 32 mph and pop! The zip ties that I’ve been using to hold my rack to the bike had enough and gave way bringing me to a screeching halt. Break out the zip ties and everything is good. Until another mile or two goes by and I can see the zip ties stretching out about to pop. Pull over add some more. Keep going, happens again, so pull the zip ties off and redo everything, situate the load to be more balanced, etc. This setup makes it until I get home, which is all I needed. Thankfully the clamps for the rack came in the mail (accidentally were sent to my old address) and I was able to remedy the situation for good.
Ah, but it was a beautiful day!
DT
Man, I haven’t had that many problems in almost a whole year! Nice that your clamps finally came.
Have yet to leave my badge at home…I clip it inside my panniers when I leave work and it’s always there…so far.
Now I *do* have some play in the left crank that I can’t seem to hamfist (over-torque) out. Annoying!
DT!
Wow! Made the move! Congrats! And commuting now too! All kinds-o-change going down…
What are you commuting on? Did you get a new steed? Fixie? Gears? Do tell!…
-b