This place is too quiet. My plans for the weekend are to get out for an hour tomorrow on the road (rain willing) for an easy spin, plus to see if my chain is still viable.
Crazy shit I've never seen before on the road bike chain recently. My shifting had been screwy 2 rides ago, giving me problems when I was in the middle ring and the bigger third of the rear cassette. Figured it was just a barrel adjustment, which of course I don't want to do in mid-ride so I just go with it. Well yesterday the chain starts skipping everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Popping off the cassette, and even trying to jump off the middle ring to the small ring (triple in front). Anyway, no big deal I'm still able to crank out my normal speeds, it's just that on the hills it skips a little more. So there's a 150 foot or so climb out of the swamp back to the house and I go up it and boy, this thing is a mess, really off the wall now. I have to drop down to small ring and granny just to even keep it engaging. Not good, not good. Up and over the hill, back down, then the half mile flat to the house, I notice that the derailleur is skipping regularly, but not on the pedal stroke, which tells me it must be the chain.
I get off and look at the chain and sure enough, one of the pins has come out of the plate on the chain. WTF? Now this whole drivetrain is maybe 1200 miles old, which for a road bike is pretty new. I don't ride in rain/muck on the road so this is a surprise. Anyway, I'm probably lucky I didn't blow the chain up while I was out there. Hopefully I can bang it back together with the chain tool and it's like new tomorrow. Or it may turn out to be better to shorten the chain by a link. This ever happen to anyone else?
Anyway if tomorrow is ok I'll try to bang out 3 hours/50 miles on Sunday to get some solid saddle time. Not sure what the contingency plan is at this point. Anyone else doing anything?
Crazy shit I've never seen before on the road bike chain recently. My shifting had been screwy 2 rides ago, giving me problems when I was in the middle ring and the bigger third of the rear cassette. Figured it was just a barrel adjustment, which of course I don't want to do in mid-ride so I just go with it. Well yesterday the chain starts skipping everywhere, and I mean everywhere. Popping off the cassette, and even trying to jump off the middle ring to the small ring (triple in front). Anyway, no big deal I'm still able to crank out my normal speeds, it's just that on the hills it skips a little more. So there's a 150 foot or so climb out of the swamp back to the house and I go up it and boy, this thing is a mess, really off the wall now. I have to drop down to small ring and granny just to even keep it engaging. Not good, not good. Up and over the hill, back down, then the half mile flat to the house, I notice that the derailleur is skipping regularly, but not on the pedal stroke, which tells me it must be the chain.
I get off and look at the chain and sure enough, one of the pins has come out of the plate on the chain. WTF? Now this whole drivetrain is maybe 1200 miles old, which for a road bike is pretty new. I don't ride in rain/muck on the road so this is a surprise. Anyway, I'm probably lucky I didn't blow the chain up while I was out there. Hopefully I can bang it back together with the chain tool and it's like new tomorrow. Or it may turn out to be better to shorten the chain by a link. This ever happen to anyone else?
Anyway if tomorrow is ok I'll try to bang out 3 hours/50 miles on Sunday to get some solid saddle time. Not sure what the contingency plan is at this point. Anyone else doing anything?