Bike trouble…

Well…it was a day of racing to get three rides in before the rain came in and I had bike trouble happening that really slowed me down…first, I did get the shifters adjusted well enough to use them…at least better than they were with the broken front cable and the back shifter so out of adjustment that you had to shift it down two gears to get it to go down one…so I ran the stripped adjuster wheel all the way in and did the adjusting with moving the cable manually…still doesn’t upshift right but the cable will stretch and make that better but I may adjust it again…on the second ride today, the bike seemed way too hard to ride into the 15-18 mph wind that I do almost every day so I looked down and saw that my rear tire was losing air and I barely made it back here…so I put my last new tube in and put the bike back together…then on the third ride, the computer started to shut off intermittently and I was pretty sure it was the repair I did in the wire so I got the soldering iron out and re soldered it so it works again and I hope it’s the last time I have to do that…I may have to cut that section out of the wire to get some new stuff to solder…but I hope not…my entire body hurts right now from the rides and I am going to have to take something for it later…I really should repair some tubes but I want to eat something first…I think I have 4 of them downstairs with just small pinhole leaks in them that should repair okay…oh, I did hit 3,000 miles for the year yesterday and that was only 7 days past the goal of May 1st so I feel pretty good about that…and only about 500 miles to halfway when I can start counting down the miles instead of up…

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