Monday November 27, 2023 Guerneville CA.
Forest ride
Barry showed up for a ride today. Seemed like a good time to test out the bike I lowered the other day. We took off.
Hot disc brake
I’ve been noticing my back brake has been running a bit hot, so I told Barry we needed to return to my house to loosen up the brake’s foot lever. It was easy to do. We headed back up into the hills to continue our ride.
Old road explore
We rode around for awhile then I told Barry I wanted to check out this old road I saw to see about maybe getting it opened up some day. That is an old road Barry’s walking on, but it dead ended just up ahead.
We took a short cut heading back and had to go down this steep hill to get back to the bikes.
More bike troubles
Shortly after that, my bike started making a weird noise at the back tire. I looked and found the lowered bike had caused the tire to rub and was tearing a mud guard off. Darn.
I told Barry we’d need to return to my house before it did tear the mud guard off and it would be harder to fix, so we headed for home. I decided to park that bike and ride my other older bike, so we took off again.
Rest area
Eventually, we ended up at our rest area at the top of the mountain for a break.
We rode around some more before heading back to my place where Barry headed for his home.
Broken bike
After a break, I got some tools out to see what I needed to do to adjust the rear shock to put more pressure on the rear shock to hopefully stop the tire from rubbing on that mud guard the tire was trying to tear off.
The problem was the rear shock adjustment was in a tight spot, in there somewhere.
There’s the rear shock and it takes a spanner wrench to adjust it which I don’t have so I couldn’t adjust it today. I ordered up a spanner wrench which I hope is the right size to fix this.
In the mean time, I’ll just ride the older bike.
Nice day.
