Not a great ride today... I could make all the excuses, hot and humid, much moreso today than it has been, not a great sleep- woke up at 3AM, couldn't fall back asleep and only managed six hours of bad sleep, so I was dead tired after a hard ride yesterday, then Google Maps misled me again into thinking a dirt ATV trail at the end of a dead end road was another road instead of a trail to the possible marijuana farm/ pitbull breeding facility, meth lab at the end with a shotgun being pointed at me. Thanks Google!
And I broke the bike somehow. I was about 3/4 of the way back and I noticed that the chain was slack and slapping the chainstay... WTH? Did I drop the chain somehow? I stopped and nope. It was back to normal. I rode again and as soon as I freewheeled for a second, the chain dropped. I stopped a couple of times before I realized that the cassette had stopped freewheeling and was locked up, jumping gears and trying to make the rear wheel into a fixie. Damn... so I managed to pedal without a break the last 3 miles or so and here I am at home weighing my options.
One- ride my wife's bike. Not a bad solution, but its way heavier than mine. Cro-mo versus aluminum, plus no bar ends and the tires are darn near dry rotted out. Two- borrow her rear wheel, but there's still the dry rotted tire or Three- build the spare wheel that I picked up a couple of weeks ago from a dumpster in Portland. Haven't written yet about that, but I will as soon as I get photos.
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