Both Riv's in Action Today

[Tony DeFilippo]

I've been quite pleased in the past when I manage to get on all of my ride able bikes in a given week.  Today I managed to get significant, purposeful use out of both my Riv's and it feels even better.  I'm full of admiration for how well these bikes perform, and I feel self-affirmed in the manner in which I've built them up.  Great day for riding bikes!

Regular commute in on the Saluki with a pitstop by the Jefferson Memorial/Tidal Basin.  My sweet colored twine courtesy of Ocean Air Cycles (thanks Rob!) needs to be tightened up a bit.  I ended up doing the 14ish mile roundtrip almost back to back after an appliance repair guy suddenly became available and called me just as I made it into the office.  Couple emails later I turned around and biked right back home... so it was less a commute than an unnecessarily directed early morning out-and-back.

10ish mile, 1 hour trail and singletrack ride at Wakefield Park and Lake Accotink aboard the mighty Bombadil. Pictured here alongside Lake Accotink, this was a fantastic, meandering ride with no particular agenda other than to tire myself out and enjoy riding in a more natural setting.  I've got an annoying intermittant rear wheel noise going on that is driving me a bit nuts... doesn't seem to be chain, I removed the kickstand pre-ride, and all the spokes appear to be well tensioned.  It may be tire rub but it is oddly intermittant, usually comes when pushing hard and it sounds like metal on frame somewhere.  Can't find any new scuffs or dings either.  I need to ride with a buddy soon to try and isolate it more.  Or else I'll just start replacing parts and see...

Makes me want to do it again tomorrow... and I just might! :)

[Lungimsam]

Sounds like a capital day of riding!!!
Silence that noise, good man!
Try here for suggestions:
http://www.jimlangley.net/wrench/keepitquiet.html

[Tim Gavin]

Tire rub can be intermittent.  

I swapped in a backup wheel on my KOM, and a small section of the very edge of the tire tread will rub on the U-brake and "sing"-- but only when I'm turning to one side.  

The wheel/tire flexes a bit with the sideways force of the turn, just enough to rub, but only under those conditions.

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[Philip Kim]

Seems like a great commute. I used to live in NE and my commute would take me to the capitol building and through the national mall into VA.

Now live in NW and take the nice rock creek prkway into Va.

[Tony DeFilippo]

Tim I think that may be it... rubber on metal would explain why i'm not finding signs of chipping or strikes in the paint anywhere.  i'm going to swap out a smaller rear tire and give it a go tonight.

 

Dave those links are great. I'm delinquent in getting the Bomba in the stand for a once over regardless of any noise or not.  I didn't ride it much for a couple months and now lately I've been on it a bunch so it deserves a full clean-inspect-tighten-lube cycle.

 

Philip.  I'm extremely happy with my commute, pretty flat, very scenic and it offers some options for varying the first and last 2-3 miles on either end so I don't get to bored.  Sounds like you still have a great ride via Rock Creek yourself, the ride home must be fairly athletic!  I need to get more comfortable with hills myself, not sure I'd want to be forced into it every day though!  Not sure the timing works out but just from the basic routes we might be able to make a morning coffee outside rendezvous work sometime.  WETH and I have met a couple times in the Georgetown waterfront area...

 

 

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[Philip Kim]

Tony,

To be be sure I need a lot of coffee in the morning to go up the Rosslyn hill into Ballston, so coffee meet up would be swell!

Phil

[WETH]

Tony,

Glad to learn you have both on the road and are enjoying some riding!

Hope to catch up with you soon in person.  Maybe at Gravel &Grind in Frederick, MD later in September?

Erl

On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 9:59:17 AM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo wrote:

[Tony DeFilippo]

Erl - I'm lobbying hard for the Gravel and Grind event.  Just got to get/keep Erika interested! :)

I found what may be the source of the intermittant noise on the Bombadil, hairline cracks coming out of multiple spoke holes on the rear wheel... it's a first generation Synergy, I believe it was the stock wheel that came with the 'Purple-luki' which was a ~2005 or 2007ish bike if I remember correctly.  Regardless of whether that is the source the rims obviously need to go and I'm not going to ride it, noise plus visual confirmation equals retirement I'm afraid.  I've got to say I'm a bit proud of actually breaking a rim... I haven't worn out many parts on a bike prior to swapping them out out of curiosity.  Of course I can't claim all the miles on this particular rim but it does feel good.  I guess I'll go ahead and replace both rims while I'm at it.  Maybe the sweet deal on the Pacenti's since these are 32H hubs anyway.

I'm glad I didn't have a spectacular failure, especially w/ all the offroad stuff I've been doing.