grinding

my road bike has been making a weird sound lately - sort of a grinding around the bottom bracket region. the other night, i fully disassembled, cleaned, greased and re-assembled everything hoping that would take care of the issue. it did not. what is really weird is that the noise starts only after 15 minutes of riding (almost exactly). on my ride in the dark last night i was thinking about it and came to a very obvious conclusion - bottom bracket. that thing is old, it is the sealed type that all bikes had before the newer standards started popping up (gxp, bb30, bb90, etc.). i've got an old one laying around and i should have installed it last night to see if it helped but i was too damn tired. once the couch got me it did not let go. oh well.

it was nice and warm this morning riding in. last night was nice too. riding without gloves and in knee warmers in the second half of november is certainly not a given - but is very much welcome!

happy tuesday.