I launched a bottle over some tracks at an HIM that bounced off the pavement and bent my rotor on my disc wheel.
I didn't realize it was bent and raced IM 70.3 NC going within 1:40 of my goal. The next race I realized the rub at bike check. Ffs... I go to Trek in Chatty where they re-align the wheel. I had a horrible race so it was a non-factor essentially
Fast forward to Augusta Sunday. I miss my goal by 2 minutes. The bike is fine upon getting to Augusta post travel. I go to bike check in and it's out of alignment again. Ffs... I re-align it and it's not rubbing. Took me forever to get it adjusted in the heat outside on the bike racks.
Post race my wife says spin it. I did and what do you know it's rubbing again. Not being super salt with bike tech I realize upon getting home the rotor blade doesn't seen to rotate evenly moving side to side.
I also realized my power was only 7 watts higher than my wife whom I outweigh by 20+lbs. Wtf... I read a slight rub could have cost me 10 to 30 watts. I'd estimate this for sure, which could be 1 to 2 mph.
At 0.7mph I would have lost 4 minutes. Fortunately I'm going to a bike mechanic this weekend to look at it, but honestly I'm sick thinking about it.
The good thing is once fixed I should regularly come in at my goal consistently. It's hard not to think this cost me, but at least it won't moving forward.
I didn't realize it was bent and raced IM 70.3 NC going within 1:40 of my goal. The next race I realized the rub at bike check. Ffs... I go to Trek in Chatty where they re-align the wheel. I had a horrible race so it was a non-factor essentially
Fast forward to Augusta Sunday. I miss my goal by 2 minutes. The bike is fine upon getting to Augusta post travel. I go to bike check in and it's out of alignment again. Ffs... I re-align it and it's not rubbing. Took me forever to get it adjusted in the heat outside on the bike racks.
Post race my wife says spin it. I did and what do you know it's rubbing again. Not being super salt with bike tech I realize upon getting home the rotor blade doesn't seen to rotate evenly moving side to side.
I also realized my power was only 7 watts higher than my wife whom I outweigh by 20+lbs. Wtf... I read a slight rub could have cost me 10 to 30 watts. I'd estimate this for sure, which could be 1 to 2 mph.
At 0.7mph I would have lost 4 minutes. Fortunately I'm going to a bike mechanic this weekend to look at it, but honestly I'm sick thinking about it.
The good thing is once fixed I should regularly come in at my goal consistently. It's hard not to think this cost me, but at least it won't moving forward.