Recovery ride

Did the Wheels of Justice shop ride again today. Good pace and a mostly new route for me. Lots of climbing, as always when the Oakland Hills are the playground.

25.4 miles, 2,100ft of climb. 1:47 of moving time for a moving average of 14.2mph. (13.2 overall if you count the 8 minutes of stopped time). Felt a bit better than yesterday morning, but still not 100%. There were a handful of places where it was really tempting to sit up.

The return leg of the loop back to the shop was supposed to look like the ride we did on July 5th.

http://fastheartslowfeet.blogspot.com/2009/07/another-good-wheels-of-justice-shop.html

Compare for yourself. [Click to embiggen]

7/5/2009


8/16/2009


At the end of the ride I noticed that the bike was a bit hard to push and saw that the front tire was rubbing on the inside of the fork again. After the triathlon yesterday the bike went in the back seat of the truck for safe keeping and the front wheel came off for the first time since the bike was new. At the shop before the ride the rubbing got noticed and we thought we fixed it. Afterwards Justice took a look at it and a flake of paint had gotten in between the fork leg and the hub on one side and that was just enough to cock the wheel the fraction of an inch it takes to touch the fork. The wheel is in there pretty tight even when straight. So, yeah, a 2 hour recovery ride with a bit of braking active the whole way. Sweet.

Had some curry and a beer when I got home.