Slow Torture

Slow Torture
3 hour fixie ride. No bad... felt pretty good. But there was a little problem hince the title of this entry.
I noticed Thurday riding on the trainer that the Peugoet was getting really noisey. On my visual inspection I didn't notice anything wrong, I just guessed that the BB was going out. I got in a rush Friday morning and was 1/2 to work when I realized that I forgot to throw the bike it the Green Torpedo. Oops. The plan was to get it to work and tear it down and lube everything. Later that night I rode the BFM to the bar to hang out with Wunnspeed and company. Today it became very obvious to me that I laid the bike down on my ride home from the bar that night. I don't remember the ride but my hip was a bit sore Saturday and I noitced today the my pants and jacket the I had been wearing that night are dirty like I was rolling around on the ground. Hummmm... not good... that might also explain the raging headache yesterday.
Back to the point - so I decided what the hell I will ride the Peugoet, noise be damned. I started out feeling great, it was nice and sunny out and I was excited to be outside riding. The noise was there but wasn't bad... 30 minutes later it was gone... things must be getting better I thought. Nope. An hour into the ride the noise is back but is different... now its a constant metal on metal rubbing noise. Hummmm... keep riding.
Lots of climbing today. Hour and 1/2 into the ride and I am in the bottoms down by the river. Pedaling has gotten really hard and I am thinking that the BB is gone. I stop and tried to turn the cranks by hand and they barely move. Shit... I got to looking at the rear wheel and noticed what the problem was. The hub had tightend it self down... a problem I have had before with this wheel. Normally this hub is a bit loose, not great either but better than so tight that its almost locked up.
The ride home from the bottoms was brutal... Brutal with at capital B. The ride is mostly climbing, I am fighting lots of resistance, the previously unoticed strong wind is now a head wind, I am getting cold, and not having eaten yet today or really at all yesterday has finally caught up with me.
I consided stopping some where and eating but figured that if I did that getting back on bike and making those cranks turn that didn't wanna turn would be that much harder. I did stop in Waldo and picked up a burrito and made it home around 3ish. Now I need to jomp on the BFM and head over to the coffee shop and pick up some beans. I have been out for a while and since I don't have to work unitl noon tomorrow I will have the whole morning to sit around and coffee up.
Just finished watching Cobbles Baby! and all I can say is... I am glad that I didn't buy it. It actually has some good footage and he gets some cool interviews... but alot of it is just a big stupid American making an ass of him self in Europe. His shower scene was almost enough to make me stop watching the vid all together.