Another crappy weekend ride. I am borrowing Abel's bike (thanks again Abel!) and when I was riding home from teaching class Halloween night, one of the spokes in the back wheel broke. I took it to Bike Pedalers (I love those guys) and got a new spoke put in. They told me that they tried to break the other spokes and couldn't, he said that they looked pretty good. But, he did follow up with, "after one spoke goes, they have a tendency to keep breaking". But he thought they looked good, so I didn't think much of it.
Saturday morning I drug myself out of bed for my final long ride (85 miles) before I have to ship out my bike to AZ. I got on HWY 77 and my plan was to ride to Beatrice and then come back. Well about 20 miles into the ride, another spoke broke and took out my back derailleur, which is the "transmission" for the bike. So I was stuck half way to Beatrice waiting for Beckie to pick me up.
We took the bike to Bike Pedalers (www.bikeped.com) to get new wheels. They didn't have the wheels in stock, and would have to order them. I made a few other calls to other shops in Lincoln and same story... would have to order the wheels. So here is the current game plan. Bike Pedalers is currently rebuilding my back wheel and putting on a new derailleur. The bike will be done Wednesday morning, which is good, because the bike has to be boxed up to be shipped Wednesday night. Basically, I will not get an 85 mile ride in before the ride in Tucson. It seems that I have had a streak of bad luck, or some bad bike karma. I hope my luck changes before Tuscon. Wish me luck.
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