Unbelievable incident?!

When we were bicycling together, suddenly Mr. WhP said, "Oh!?".  I heard his bicycle was making noise.  He was wondering what made his chain fall off.  After he fixed it we finished one hour ride and came back home.

I should call him to describe what he found:  After first trying to adjust the rear derailleur, and failing, I saw some kind of funny hard brown stuff stuck in a place that interfered with the derailleur!  On closer examination, I found it was a desiccated earth worm!  The thing was wound around and dried hard as a piece of plastic!  After chipping it off, I had to readjust the derailleur once more to get it working  correctly.  It's the first time I've ever seen such a thing!

Has anybody had such an experience?

My dear Novara Jaunt, you too?!

In the middle of the last ride on the Novara I  noticed suddenly a feeling like a  heavy weight on the pedal, but I thought that I just got tired.  But I felt the same thing at the beginning of this morning's ride, Mr. WhP tried to fix it on the end of the street.  It got a little better, but wasn't completely solved.

We finished our morning ride of just over 5 miles and came back.

Mr. WhP stayed in our garage and worked for a while.  Finally he finished.  "What happened?"

He said:

The front brake shoe was dragging on one side of the rim and couldn’t be stopped by loosening the cable.  The problem was caused by the spring on one side being a bit weaker than the other.  The tension needed adjustment; one click more tension evened out the brake shoe position and got rid of the dragging.

Unfortunately the temperature went up so much this afternoon, I couldn't go out to check my pedaling soon.
Hope I can ride it much better tomorrow. 

 

Exhausted, but tried the face shield.

It  was very windy late morning today.   So the face protector was perfect for avoiding drying my eyes.  Even bugs avoided crashing into the shield.

But our helmets are a close fit on our heads and the protector was so oversized and hard to put together.  The blue frame kept sagging so that I couldn't see the view freely as I used to.

But the idea is still great.  So I will keep working on it.  Somehow ....

In spite of our exhaustion we felt fortunate that we still could  ride. even though that's less than 4 miles.

I asked what Mr. Wh thought about the facial protector.  This is his answer.
 

The face shield is effective against bugs and stuff falling from trees.  In 70 degree windy conditions it didn’t fog.  It also affords a little protection from the wind drying your eyes.

It’s a bit tricky to fit under the helmet because there a little bumps on the sides of the helmet that hit the band on the face shield—the band can’t go under the helmet without making the helmet too loose, so the bumps tend to push the shield down too much.  If I just keep pushing it back up (like I do my eyeglasses) it works well enough.

I conclude that it is a reasonably satisfactory accessory, and a good value.