Waiting for the temperature to get a little more above 60 degrees I started the bike ride at 12:48 PM. My planned route took me to E Lake Houston Parkway south and east but around 4/10 of mile into the ride a problem happened: the right side of the dual GoPro mount broke where I used Gorilla Glue to repair it. The Gorilla lost his grip on this one. The jarring from the bike was too much. Now holding the PowerPod in my left hand I turned around and went back home. Arriving there I retrieved the aluminum dual GoPro mount I bought in case the Gorilla Glue failed. I thought this would fix it quickly and get back to the ride. NOPE!! Maybe my anxiousness to ride outside after 6 days of Zwifting got the ride of problems going. The broken bracket.
Taking the new mount out of the package I saw the GoPro fingers attached with a screw. Removing the screw and moving the mount to the top of the aluminum cross bar I thought maybe this would allow the GoPro camera to mount above the crossbar but when I tried that the Elemnt computer blocked the camera. Turning the bracket back to below the crossbar I tried to insert the GoPro frame into the fingers and it wouldn’t fit. I had another frame from my GoPro Hero7 White camera which did slide in after some hard pushing. Now I got ready to ride putting the PowerPod in its slot on the right and the camera on the left.
With all of time lost fixing the mounts I decided to ride the “Atascocita – Walden” route. Heading south along W. Lake Houston Parkway when I looked at the greenbelt trail over Ben’s Branch it looked like the contractor removed the barrier at the north side of the bridge but when I got to the south side the barrier was still there requiring me to dismount, walk through some almost mud, lean under the rope before getting back on the Canyon bike. Not long after that I noticed the cadence sensor not showing numbers as I turned the pedals. If I hit a bump it would produce cadence numbers for awhile and then go back to zero. I stopped and pushed on the case thinking the battery might be lose but that didn’t help much. This continued until I noticed the PowerPod was tilted downward causing it to not report power. Until then I thought the cadence sensor was causing the PowerPod to shows 0’s. Once I adjusted the tilt power showed up again and cadence seemed to be more consistent. I will check the sensor’s battery.
Because of these problems the ride data does not represent what really happened.
On the good news side of the ride I wore a new Pearl Izumi Elite Escape Convertible black jacket that kept me comfortable along with the long sleeve thermal jersey, leg warmers, and shorts. Weather during the bike ride: start 64 (41% humidity, 40.0 dew point), a few clouds, wind N 6 mph. Finish 66 (35% humidity, 37.9 dew point), a few clouds, wind NW 8 mph.
