Saturday I took my wheels in to be trued. I'd had them in before, but didn't get them into perfect shape. Instead of going to Bicycle Village where, as at many other shops, I thought they were more interested in selling than solving problems, I went to Wheat Ridge Cyclery. After a slightly annoying wait in the service area while staff milled around, satisfied that we were where we needed to be, I got someone to look at my wheels. The front was ok. It just looked bad because the tire wasn't seated properly. The back was certified as "done" when the technician, looking at the wheel in a truing stand, said "yeah, that's not gonna come out.". Fair enough, it was an annoying flat spot. The tech gave me a decent range of choices: new wheel to match the remaining front, new pair of slightly better wheels, or a dee-luxe set of wheels. Of the new wheel options, I could get a whole new rim, hub and spokes in silver, or order and lace a new rim to my old hub. The prices where the same, and I was happy to get fresh bearings so I went with the former: $165.
I told him I'd see how the season went and perhaps I'd "earn" a new set of wheels. He liked the response.
On the way home, we stopped at Home Depot for some lumber. I spent the evening building a tall and narrow table. I built it just wide enough to straddle the spin bike and tall enough to clear the handle bars. It should make reading while spinning much easier. I finished the job by clamping a lamp to the I-beam in the ceiling above the spin bike.
(no ride)
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