Non-Electrical Recumbent For a Few Days – BionicOldGuy

On Friday I used to be out for a protracted trip on my recumbent and I occurred to look down at my entrance wheel and observed a damaged spoke. The wheel appeared in adequate form, not too badly “out of true”, and was nonetheless ride-able. So I headed house and switched bikes, finishing the trip on my upright. I later took a very good take a look at the wheel and located it really had 5 damaged spokes. All broke on the J-bend the place the spoke comes out of the hub. I used to be stunned as a result of I’d by no means damaged multiple spoke earlier than and likewise often there’s an audible ping. That is my entrance wheel with the electrical motor, so the spokes are subjected to torque from the motor in addition to affect, e.g. from potholes. It had carried out simply superb for nicely over a yr so I assume I should have hit one thing pretty huge just lately. I ordered alternative spokes on Amazon, being happy to seek out out they arrive in customized lengths so I may order the best measurement. I’ll repair the wheel once they are available in and get it again on the street. I’ll try to remain on smoother roads sooner or later.

Within the meantime I can nonetheless trip my upright if I need electrical help, and I’ve the unique wheel again on the recumbent. The timing is fortuitous. I hadn’t been driving my upright sufficient since I recovered from my final bout of sciatica. So my butt was getting sore on longer rides on the upright. A got here throughout an amusing time period for this on an ultramarathon biking web site: “marshmallow butt”. I have to toughen my butt again up, from “marshmallow” to “iron”, as a result of in Could I’m stepping into a pal’s van right down to Paso Robles for a number of days of biking, and my recumbent received’t match so I’ll be taking my upright. I’ll be certain to get extra saddle time in on the upright earlier than them.