PSA- when your biking is not going well

[Moonrocket]

Get your bike checked out.

I was having a great season and started losing confidence (to the extent at my last Xterra my run pace was faster than my bike pace!)

I thought my favorite trails were getting rockier.

I was unreasonably afraid of mud.

Turns out I broke a small piece in my headset and my steering was totally dodgy.

I have no idea why I didn't figure it out. My husband hopped on it after trying to fix a problem I was having and asked what heck was wrong with my bike!

Oops.

 

[bounceswoosh]

Oh, man! Glad you got it figured out.

 

[altagirl]

I've done that. My very first DH bike was getting this squeak in the suspension. Couldn't figure it out, (neither could the people I asked) so I ignored it. Felt a little weird but I figured it was just me.

Finally noticed something that looked off and the spring had shifted or of the groove and I had shaved off a big chunk of the spring and shock. The shop said it was the most destroyed shock they had ever seen.

Oops....

 

[surfsnowgirl]

@altagirl

"My very first DH bike"

I have to ask and please don't take this the wrong way because we really don't know each other but I kind of chuckled when I read this. Was it your first DH or your first bike when DH noticed something was awry.

Sorry trying to make a funny sometimes its hard to get across in print when people don't really know each other (easy to interpret the wrong way). Maybe I should have waited to joke like this until maybe after we've met one day

 

[surfsnowgirl]

This would be something that would happen to me. I would be all "what the heck is wrong with my bike" and then DH would hop on my bike and go silly girl its just this.

@Moonrocket Glad you got it all worked out

 

[altagirl]

@altagirl

"My very first DH bike"

I have to ask and please don't take this the wrong way because we really don't know each other but I kind of chuckled when I read this. Was it your first DH or your first bike when DH noticed something was awry.

Sorry trying to make a funny sometimes its hard to get across in print when people don't really know each other (easy to interpret the wrong way). Maybe I should have waited to joke like this until maybe after we've met one day

DH bike = downhill bike. (kind of explains the coil shock on the rear as most XC/AM bikes don't have those). Hah, I've been using bike type abbreviations since before I ever saw DH used as a reference to your spouse! So.... not "Dear Husband" related whatsoever. Although he did look at it and didn't see the issue at first either.

 

[surfsnowgirl]

Ooooh that DH

Sorry

I hang my head sheepishly

 

[altagirl]

Ooooh that DH

Sorry

I hang my head sheepishly

No worries!