No rain today. The roads were a bit puddly from yesterday’s precipitation but since I hadn’t been out on two wheels since Saturday, I wanted to get 20 miles in or so.
I was also keen to reassess the rear wheel squeak situation on The Professor. I did take it for a 50-60 yard spin to check it out on Monday and was surprised to find that the squeak had gone. I did a bit of Google research at the weekend, which suggested that spoke rub can cause it – so I carefully applied a small squirt of GT-85 to the points where the spokes are in contact with each other on the wheel, before setting off.
Whether that was what did the trick, or whether it’s just one of those things that disappears of its own accord, I don’t know. But I didn’t get the squeak at all over 20.18 miles. Very happy about that because it was loud, persistent and bloody annoying. I’ll check that none of the spokes are loose next time I’m in the garage; I do have a spoke wrench somewhere.
Quite a cold day and I didn’t bother with overshoes. My feet did suffer slightly but not enough to bother me. I need to get some new overshoes anyway; the ones I have can interfere with clipping in and out. Speaking of which, the new pedals are a bit too tight, I’ll have to adjust them. Bikes, eh! You’re never short of something to do.
Got back a good 15 minutes after sunset and didn’t need to attach a front light, although I had one in my backpack. So I made good use of the additional half hour of afternoon daylight since the nadir in December.
192 this month.
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A bit blowy but no brutal headwinds to contend with this time.