This morning’s ride was fairly uneventful. I was turning over the pedals and was right on track for a good day even with the hurricanes winds building. About the only hiccup came when I was 10km down the road when I realized that I forgot to reset my computer. Just as I was resetting the computer I hit another hug pothole. Thinking nothing of it I kept riding.
At the pit stop before lunch I went to pay for my ticket over the phone. After being on hold for 40 mins I finally got fed up and hung up the phone. This ticket is really becoming a pain in my neck. The only option I have now is to mail it in. In order to do so I have to get a money order? I have never done that before so I must hunt down a place to get one.
When I got back on the road I noticed my rear brake was rubbing. I loosen my barrel adjuster but still it was rubbing. I then realized that that pothole had really done some damage to my rear wheel. So that I did not continue to slow myself down I simply unhooked my rear brake and kept on riding.
Right away I felt better. The bike was running light because I had 0 food, and only the water in my bottles (when I usually carry 3 litres of backup). I saw my speed jump up almost as quickly as the heat did. Speaking of the heat it was a little better today because of the upcoming hurricane. Fortunately it pushed some clouds my way. As well as a nice headwind but I will take that over scorching heat any day.
With everything going strangely well I made my way into Richmond. In Richmond I promptly got lost. I asked a police officer which way to go. He surprised me when he said that he would give me a police escort to where I needed to go.
Richmond is a strange place. The only non sketchy part of the town was at the nascar race track. I will describe the rest of it with one statement. You know you are in Richmond when the pizza delivery car is a Cadillac rolling on dubs. For some reason I don’t think he is just delivering pizzas.
When I got into my motel (because of the hurricane) the first thing I did was check my rear wheel. Before I go any further let me just say mavic wheels are by a country mile the best wheels and rims you can ride. In my case I have a cracked rim in 2 places but after truing my rear wheel and tensioning it up (which should not be able to happen when you have that damaged of a rim). But it still is working. I am not sure for how much longer but we will see.
Trip Distance: 163km
Ride Time: 8:01hr
Avg. Speed: 20.35km/h
Total Distance: 10028km
Total Ride Time: 470hr
Destination: Chester, Virginia
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Ev, I was talking to John Carlson and even he had the same soloution to the ticket as I thought,forget about it, when you going to be back that way? It was a pretty chicken shit thing for the cop to do, just my opinion though. So you're about to/are having your frist hurricane expreince! It sounds like it may get a little hairy. Is your phone working? Be safe/have fun maybe slow down abit and enjoy more? Dad
ReplyDeleteYou don't want to run into any probs at the border or immigration at an airport over a traffic violation....so, the next time we are communicating on Facebook, I will offer you a solution. Don't sweat it. We can figure it out.
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