Bike Fixes, Saddle Update

Had to dump the new saddle for tomorrow's ride. Two trainer rides with many adjustments up, down, fore, aft, etc. and I don't think it'll work. Sorry Mark. I said I'd give it two weeks and I was committed to that until I put the 12 year old mountain bike saddle back on and it felt 100x better than the Selle SMP. Marc C said something today... he can't ride saddles with the slit in the middle. Maybe I'm in that crowd... the one the Pauls ride has one and these last two that've killed me had slits. The problem with the mountain bike saddle is that it's cheap and after two rides is already falling apart.

Brakes were my next concern. Rear brake wasn't working. Had to debug the issue. Turns out the back 1/3 of the cable had rusted. Something that isn't supposed to happen with Nokon cables because they have a very snug cable housing. And when it does happen the brake cable won't move. So I reluctantly slipped out the cable and started fishing the new one in. I got super lucky with the initial fish into the first portion of the cable which made things seem easy. Teflon lubed the heck out of the cable on the way in.

Next issue was the bad end tape. I use electrical tape and it was sliding and getting sticky/gunky on rides. Really annoying. So I put my last bit of bar end tape on. And I unwrapped and re-used the wrap on the actual handlebars.

Cleaned the chain, lubed everything. I think the bike'll work tomorrow. With the winds and possible rain I knew I didn't want any little annoyances to give me an excuse to abandon the workout.