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Aug. 1st, 2018 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm going to process my road trip photos this weekend. Probably! There's just a lot to go through.
It's good to be back to my bike, though not as good to be back to mechanical issues. I couldn't ride on Monday because I'd misplaced the key to my U-lock. Riding to work yesterday, I unsuccessfully tried to figure out the intermittent noise connected to wheel rotation, complicated by the intermittent noise that one pedal with bad bearings makes. On the way home, I figured out that I had a really loose spoke with no tension on it. With the bike up on the stand for work, I found another loose spoke. I tightened them both up, which took the very slight wobble out of the wheel. On the way to work this morning, I think I still heard a noise that might be spokes, so I'll check again this evening.
I don't know if the problem is that the bike shop did a bad job when replacing a spoke, or if riding the bike caused them to detension, or who-knows-what. It's annoying because I'd like to think that when my wheel is professionally worked on, it will stay in shape for a while. Once we have two incomes again, I'm going to buy a spoke tension meter and go carefully over both wheels myself. Sometimes, I feel like if you want to be sure something's done right, you have to do it yourself. You just have to decide where the break-even point is between variables like time, expense, and certainty.
Renovation at work, which was supposed to have begun the Monday of the week I was gone, has finally started today. At least a little bit. With few patrons and little to do, I spent most of yesterday working through my textbook on electronic theory. There'll probably be a lot of that this week, which is just fine with me!
It's good to be back to my bike, though not as good to be back to mechanical issues. I couldn't ride on Monday because I'd misplaced the key to my U-lock. Riding to work yesterday, I unsuccessfully tried to figure out the intermittent noise connected to wheel rotation, complicated by the intermittent noise that one pedal with bad bearings makes. On the way home, I figured out that I had a really loose spoke with no tension on it. With the bike up on the stand for work, I found another loose spoke. I tightened them both up, which took the very slight wobble out of the wheel. On the way to work this morning, I think I still heard a noise that might be spokes, so I'll check again this evening.
I don't know if the problem is that the bike shop did a bad job when replacing a spoke, or if riding the bike caused them to detension, or who-knows-what. It's annoying because I'd like to think that when my wheel is professionally worked on, it will stay in shape for a while. Once we have two incomes again, I'm going to buy a spoke tension meter and go carefully over both wheels myself. Sometimes, I feel like if you want to be sure something's done right, you have to do it yourself. You just have to decide where the break-even point is between variables like time, expense, and certainty.
Renovation at work, which was supposed to have begun the Monday of the week I was gone, has finally started today. At least a little bit. With few patrons and little to do, I spent most of yesterday working through my textbook on electronic theory. There'll probably be a lot of that this week, which is just fine with me!
