My saga with the Cervelo Caledonia’s rear tire continued this morning. The flat returned resulting in taking the tube out of the tire, submerging it in water to find the leak. The last patch I applied spewed bubbles from the edge meaning the removable Presta valve core wasn’t the problem, my patching skill was. Not wanting to put a third patch over the hole I threw that tube away and installed a new one. Back in the tire, aired up, it held air when I got back from today’s bike ride.

That wasn’t the only problem. I rode my Canyon Endurace bike north on the Kingwood – FM1485 – Kingwood route today. I didn’t notice that the watts showed “0” until around 20 miles into the ride. I stopped at the store on Valley Ranch Parkway and Azalea Blvd attempting to fix it but did not. I continued onto the 7 Eleven store at FM1314 and turned the Bolt computer off thinking that might be the issue but it wasn’t. Not knowing what else to try I rode on. Just before leaving Briar Berry Lane I came up with the idea to reset the power meter and pulled over. I turned the power meter cartridge pulling it out, pressed the reset button and watts starting showing on the Bolt computer. I think I caused the issue while working on the Cervelo Caledonia’s front derailleur not shifting. Too many bikes with the same electronic shifting components can lead to trying to connect a component to the wrong bike.

Riding north to Caney Creek the strong south wind made it easy on my legs. I figured the return to Kingwood would be into that strong wind and it was. Sometime during the ride the wind increased from 14 mph to 21 mph with 28 mph gusts. To add some chill the temperature hung around 68 degrees and in the shade it felt even chillier. I wore a long sleeve jersey under a wind jacket but I could’ve used a little heavier jersey with the strong wind. Finishing at 3:12 PM was later than I wanted but I started late at 12:28 PM. I waited for the temperature to go up a few more degrees but settled for 66 at the start and 69 at the end.