February 16, 2006

  • Disaster Narrowly Averted!


    Bike#1 2002 Cannondale T800 10,000+ miles and my favorite all around bike

    I was riding to work on bike #1 this morning and  the rim on my rear wheel separated with a loud bang which sounded a lot like a gunshot.  The rim (the part that the brake pads rub against when you brake) split into two pieces on one side for about eight inches of the wheel.  Yikes! 

    I was going on a flat surface when it happened and I can’t help but think that the outcome could have been catastrophic had it happened while I was braking at speed on a hill.  After, the rear wheel didn’t spin anymore so I had to carry the bike home.  If you read back on my blog a few days you will see that my mechanic had warned me of this very thing last Thursday so I knew exactly what was had happened. I”m going to have to get new wheels and probably tires too because the ones on there were pretty old.


    So I got to work a little late today on Bike #3.


    Bike#3 2005 Kona Sutra Triple with drop handlebars and disk brakes. A little heavy but those disk brakes rock in the rain.

    The weather has been vary cold and I haven’t been riding a whole lot extra this week and it’s supposed to rain and snow(!) at higher elevations (like Mt Tam and Mt Diablo) on Saturday morning.  This may put my Saturday ride in definite jeopardy.  But Sunday’s still supposed to be OK.  But I’m not going to be thinking that it’s rained out now because the storm may well race through the area a little early and be cleared up by Saturday morning.  Or that’s what I’ll be telling myself while I’m riding in the rain.

    Went for a walk over lunch up to Telegraph hill and down into North Beach. Cool but beautiful. Like me!

    Got Disk 2 of the yu gi oh 2nd season and I’m hoping to watch that on Friday night.