20 degrees

Is pretty cold with a stiff headwind.

At least the dry cold air seemed to sublimate a good portion of the thin skim ice that was on the path. Close to 90% ridable (for me).

Should have covered up the face a bit more, being all still clean shaven, and maybe put the lobster gloves on instead of the holey old windnot PI fuzzy gloves.

Got home last night after the adventure, firmly in favor of a helmet mounted headlight for icy commuting (looking up ahead and then back picking lines is much easier with it than bar mounted light), and well the rim was doing the out of true hoppity hop. A bit worse than normal. These are the old CPX21's i picked up from a friend... wheelsmith build sticker on them. Well. This time i found the one loose spoke and then, holy crap there's another one and what? it is broken. Hold on, that's not a broken nipple! THAT'S THE WHOLE NIPPLE! Damn. Shit. Rim's toast. Sunofabitch. I just taped the spoke and rode the damn thing in today anyway. Not going fast enough for the wobble to bother me much. Just one more thing to the pile of shit to do... either going to do it right and get a beefy velocity tall profile rim or just for now swap the front rim onto the back, totally cheezy way to go (to reuse the spokes) but man it would be cheaper and a bit less labor... That or I just go hit Legend and see about the price for a rim and some spokes...

I need a nap.

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