Training Log Archive: 'Bent

New masters world records - flying 200m and standing-start km by Phil Platt.

First ride at Albion. Trail conditions were perfect and spring is the nicest time there.
Took it fairly easy on the knee with low gears on the climbs.

At one point I pulled over to try and ID a creak in the seat. Some dude went by fast with a "good luck with that bike here" comment, and it was on.
I caught up to him, hung on for a while and dropped him on a climb, but he passed me on some tight singletrack and I let him go.

I was actually not far behind him few km later when a stick bounced up and shoved my front deraileur cable into my crank and chainring, snapping off the frame mount, trashing the housing and breaking the shifter. I had to granny-ring it home the short way after that.

Back home I managed to re-tap the mount and fix it, disassembled the shifter and found I had a matching part deep in the basement, and had just enough high-end cable housing to finish the job. Whew!
Also fixed the creaking seat.

C • Ha.... 36