5/22 rides..Don't try this at home

[Biciclista]

yikes! sounds like a good day to stay home and make cookies or something!

[hipmama]

Crazy ride here today too, what's up?!
Morning was good, was out just doing drills practice- doing my LCI training seminar/certification this weekend and need to tune up some stuff there.
Then had plans to tandem out to a friends house which would give us a 30 mile round trip- good since it's almost 90 degrees out. Got my period which traditionally means it's not going to be a good ride. I feel fine but something bad always happens!
So, we got 5 miles out and my front crank about falls off We're about 1 mile from a bike shop, and on the wrong side of a really busy street to get to it, so I shove it in and rig it up to be able to gently pedal at a low gear to get to the shop where they tell me it was never assembled right - one of the screws wasn't tapped in and I have to go drill the hole, or leave it there for 2 weeks, which was when they would be able to get to it because they are so busy. So they tighten it up enough that we can take it home and I take another route to avoid the hills and construction I would normally be going through and we take a longer quieter route- which I don't normally take and forgot that there's about a 6" dropoff from the side of the road, no bike lane, and a vehicle lane not wide enough to share, in rush hour traffic. So we forced a shared lane and wobbled our way home. Ugh!
Set up with a rack to put the tandem on tomorrow and someone to help me with the drilling, I really don't want to mess that up.
Did get home to random cyclist who I kind of know from here and there parked in front of my house and climbing the fence (he could have used the gate, he's just a little funny) to drop off bike route maps for all through NY for us, so that was pretty sweet. I paid him in cold water.