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Our weather, as usual, has been up and down day to day and often during each day.
One day requires insulated coveralls and boots, while another is too warm and results in unbuttoned shirt and ventilated shoes.
It has NOT warmed up to the point where I dare ride with open sandals yet. Being March, I would usually think such temperatures would be weeks away. But with this unusually warm AND cold late winter weather, who knows.
On 18 March, I saddled up for a ride. As I tried to back the trike up to get pointed in the right direction,
the chain caught on something and locked up the works and I could not move. Upon closer inspection, I saw the chain had caught the edge of the shifter guide bracket and not only was stuck in the bracket, but the chain link had BROKEN. Wow, I was disappointed. I remembered the last time, a few years ago (Thankfully) that I'd worked on a broken chain and I realized it wasn't going to be a quick fix. I locked the trike back up and saved it "for later".
The Monday following, I got the car out of the drafty garage so I could have room to work.
It was bitter cold, so I built a fire in the little wood stove back against the garage wall. It took a while for any heat to show up, and it only raised the temperature a few degrees above the outside temperature of 37 degrees more or less. I waited a while and fed several more wood chunks into the stove before I dared get started.
With coveralls adorned, I poked around and found most of my bike / chain repair tools. Using the chain breaker / clamp tool, I was able to remove the bloopered link(s). It took a while to calculate a strategy to remove enough links to make sense, then figure out a way to get the proper amount of links reinstalled. Trying to get the tiny link-pin back into place was fraught with fumbling finger trial and error and language unbecoming a Christian. The link tool I had was very difficult since it did not accurately center on the pins, resulting in manually shifting it back and forth trying to get them perfectly centered through the links. After maybe an hour of fumbling around with cold fingers, interrupted by trips to the stove for more wood and at least one rest break with tired feet.... it finally worked.
Then I lubricated the chain, adjusted the shifting bracket, etc, etc. until it finally started shifting properly again.
I only had time by now to take a short test ride up the street, but all seemed to work OK. The shifter felt quite different now, but does work through all the gear positions.
Happy me
Ride Started: 3:14 PM Ride Ended: 4:56 PMBeginning Battery Voltage: 13.0 Ending Battery Voltage: 12.8
Lowest Temp: 64 F Highest Temp: 75 F
Beginning Blood Glucose: 180 Ending BG: 152
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 5.63
Overall Average Speed Moving Avg Max Speed
3.3 MPH 5.9 MPH 21.2 MPH
Total Trip(s) Time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 43 minutes 57 minutes 46 minutes
