No Compensating With the Big Ring
So much for compensating for the wrong length chain. I was riding on the return leg home and tried to shift onto the big front ring. Nothing happened. I changed gears back to what I was using and increased the cadence to try and compensate. I was trying to get my average speed up to 15.6 mph. I finally reached 15.6 mph as I exited the causeway and turned into Atascocita Shores. From there to home the average speed went up and down finally settling at 15.5 mph when I got home. The last 8 miles is residential streets with numerous stop signs and traffic crossings.
Now I will look at the front derailleur to get it working again. Maybe the adjusting screws got messed up or the cable is frozen.
I left home at 11:10 under a partly cloudy sky. The Houston Chronicle weather man called the weather summer lite. It was 87 when I finished with a 6 mph SE breeze. After riding the MTB yesterday I felt better riding the Stradalli RP-14 today. The route to Huffman and back was 33.8 miles. I did see two women bikers as I was riding east over Lake Houston. They were going west.
Mile markers:
- 57.21 miles for the week
- 198.56 miles for October
- 5729.58 miles for the year
Today’s ride was the 49th of the year on the “Atascocita – Walden – Huffman” route out of 165 riding days. I plan on biking tomorrow with the weather repeating today.
For some reason the Garmin Live Tracking stopped while I was riding around the 28 mile point. I restarted and it worked until I got home. Another problem was it did not stop when I stopped the ride timer on the Garmin Edge 510. I have noticed the Android app was updated recently. Maybe this is a bug?
Links to Garmin Connect and RideWithGPS.
