Quote Originally Posted by Catriona View Post
I may stop to adjust the seat level or turn my brakes on if I've forgotten to
Ha! I just did the brake thing yesterday.. I felt like such an idiot when I stopped to fix it

I wanted to say that I appreciate all of your comments, and I don't mind a bit of thread drift

Anyways.... I've learned a few things from reading, and I think you all have some very good insight. I also talked to DH more yesterday, and yes, I can see how what I thought was helpful advice, definitely did seem to him from his perspective more like bragging or that I was trying to suggest he didn't know what he was doing.. even though I really wasn't trying to do either.

So we took some time to look over DH's bike, and he does have a rubbing back brake! I couldn't completely fix it though, and I think his rear wheel needs to be trued... he did not like that suggestion though, stating "I just need to loosen the brake cable and it will be fine".. oookay... I don't think I can argue him out of that though, so I dropped it (he did not however, attempt to do anything to it.) but it was a lot better after I messed with it.

Something with the trailer definitely doesn't seem quite right. I hooked it up to my bike yesterday, and it almost feels like the bike does with a brake rubbing... except that there are no brakes on the trailer and if you spin each wheel independently, they do spin freely. I don't get it. It makes it a lot harder than I think it "should" be to pull the kids though, even with my bike.. and it feels like someone is tugging on the trailer at a very regular interval.. and you feel it even going downhill and it is definitely slowing us down. So there may very well be something to that as well. I'm going to try to take a better look at it this afternoon. I don't think it's my bike... because it felt fine without the trailer on, and my brakes weren't rubbing as far as I could tell (I checked, and checked again).

A better trailer is in our future at some point (I'm still deciding what I want - taking the comfort of the kids into great consideration there, not just ease of towing) so the issues with the trailer we have may not be anything I want to tackle.. if it's getting replaced. But we'll see