Monday, March 26, 2007

Mini rant on...

So I can sum up the last 5 miles or so of Friday's ride home in one word: suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! Ok, maybe that's an overstatement, but... I was feeling pretty good about myself because the wind was dead in my face the whole way home and I had made it well past the 50 mile point for the day feeling ok. I was sort of counting the miles until I came unglued and sure enough it happened with about 3 miles to go. I talked myself through the rest of it which went by very painfully and I finally roll into the driveway after a little over an hour 40. I don't know what even made me check, but as I'm rolling into the garage I check the rear wheel only to find out that a spoke had gone loose as a noodle so the wheel would not spin once around without being stopped by the brake. Well, that was some unneccessary suffering. No idea when it busted, but long story short the wheel is trashed. My hope is that it goes back to the cross race where I dinged it up and it was worse than they thought when they trued it back. Worst case scenario is that the very minor bend in the seat stay on the Lemond shredded the wheel. I may find that out tomorrow if I wreck another wheel. Biggest suckage comes from the fact that the wheel is out of warranty, rebuild cost is about $10 less than the cost of new, and even a 105 hub with an open pro rim is about $140 which I really hadn't planned on spending. If anyone out there has a 9-speed Shimano they want to sell me cheap, feel free to let me know.

Oh, and the blinky thing is long gone. Either I missed it or it's on the really crappy road that I skipped. New one will be firmly strapped to the frame tonight for the morning.

Midterm tonight... argh.

/Rant

2 comments:

gewilli said...

rim trashed or just spoke tension neglect?

I picked up a set of CPX somethings for $75 front and rear on 105s...

ya should be able to dig something similar out of ebay...

don't toss the wheel - or if you do save me the hub...

if its the rim that's trashed - hold on to the wheel till you find a cheap new match and swap the spokes over... pretty easy to do -

trackrich said...

thing that ultimately did it in was that an eyelet pulled out of the rim. It's a Cosmos so rebuild price is almost the price of new. Guy on the team dug an old skool vuelta 32 hole out of the garage and gave it to me so I'm good. Going to probably tear down the old wheel and use it as a course in wheel building if I ever get the time/ambition.