Boy it's gorgeous out. I went for my usual loop, then decided it was so nice, I'd ride for another hour or so. As soon as I decided that, I noticed a skip, at first what I thought was a ghost shift. Well, I thought, maybe my cassette's wearing out. Several miles down the road, the skip was worse, and then turned into a skip with a click on the end. As soon as I heard the click, I knew it was the chain. I could see when I looked down some side to side play happening. I pulled over, and indeed found a link that was about to break.

Made a call to my brother to come get me. His inability to follow directions, coupled with my inability to give directions, made me decide the best idea was for us to meet at a place we both knew, which was a few miles mostly downhill from where I was. I figured I'd put it in an easy gear and mostly coast the whole way. Well, that didn't quite work. After about 1/2 a mile, the chain started jamming so I couldn't pedal at all. SO, I got off and started walking.

I got about 20 yards, when there before me, was a car with a Cervelo time trial bike on the roof, with a woman and kids getting in. I 'splained my dilemma to her, and she went and got her husband, who happened to have a chain tool handy. Unfortunately, it broke. Luckily, he had another one! Boy, someone was lookin' out for me! He took out a link, reconnected the now shorter chain, and I rode to where my bro was waiting. Mechanicals are fun when they work out!

This is the third chain I've gone through on this bike, which I haven't even had a year. Fluke? I'm beginning to think it's something else...

I'm getting a new chain tool for the guy who helped me, and some candy for his kids, who patiently waited in the car while their dad fixed my bike.

Bike people are the best.