The weather was downright beautiful on the Windward side on Wednesday afternoon, so I took the Ellsworth out for a spin to settle in the new Cane Creek Solos Headset. It didn’t really go in smoothly on Tuesday, so I was considering uninstalling it and resetting it, but the nice weather compelled me to take the bike on a shakedown ride. Initially, there was a noticeable amount of resistance on small amplitude movements. After the ride, the resistance was gone, but there was some aluminum dust appearing at the junction of the upper bearing cup and the top cap. There may be some kind of interference contact that has to be dealt with. I’ll take it out on Thursday and see what’s up. Monday’s ride was mostly seated climbs, so I did standing climbs to mix it up a bit.
D = 15.04 km (9.35-miles), Vavr = 18.3 km/h 36.4 km/h (11.4 mph), Vmax = (22.6 mph), T = 49-minutes
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