We came back from Italy a little tired. John had
a tough ride on Equinox, but it was better than Pamela's ride!
photo by Lee
Krohn (one of the nicest photographers I've ever met!)
So after Newton had his revenge on me, we re-tightened
and triple-checked the tightness of the crank and lockring on
the crank. But I had decided I should try to push a bigger gear,
so I changed the cog from a 20T to 18T, and made sure that lockring
was on tight... but apparently didn't do such a thorough job tightening
the wheel... There is this little downhill about 2 miles in, where
I had to use the brakes and the Pixie Fixie (the bike) starts
to make noises a fixie shouldn't. The braking put enough stress
on the wheel to jar it loose, causing the chain to go slack. Now
the Fixie Pixie (me) utters curses that a pixie shouldn't. Of
course, I still hadn't learned the lesson to carry tools and I
didn't have the same guardian angels I had on Newton's, so I had
to take a lift up in the sweep van. I'm going to be sure that
John checks behind me for everything before Mt W and I'm carrying
tools!
photo by Lee
Krohn (one of the nicest photographers I've ever met!)
We did get out for a couple of nice rides with
David and Emily after the race and the following day. So our weekend
was still fun. Seems neither of us had a camera though!
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