Signed up for a Century ride on May 2nd, look forward to completing that. Debating on if I should ride to the event or not, 25mi each way. Hope to get a good couple rides in this weekend.
This week I've been taking the long route home, but I got a flat one day, and now whatever I do my disc brake is rubbing, I think I banged up something when putting the rear wheel back on, but my adjustments aren't helping. While in the stand I can spin it, no sound, but as soon as I sit on it and ride, there it goes again. Will have to look at it more this weekend and get it fixed by Monday. Perhaps bleeding the brakes?
The tire compresses a little bit when you sit on it - which is probably why you're observing different behavior on and off the bike.
Sounds like you need to readjust your brakes.
Did you buy any chance forget the tighten the brakes after you loosened them to remove the wheel while repairing the flat?
Axle starting to have excess play? Wheel spokes loose somewhere? Both of those would cause the wheel to warp under weight.
Not sure why tire compression would affect disc brakes.
These are disc brakes, which then again wheel being out of true shouldn't affect it either since disc is connected to hub, but I did think perhaps it was the axle, but tried tightening that on my way home during one of 5 stops to fix it. I fixed it last night by taking the wheel back off, using a tire lever to push the slave cylinder back in and reassembling. This gave it more room to play with the adjustment bolts and I had a quiet ride into work today.
Thanks for the suggestions! With quiet brakes I should now be able to continue accumulating 10+ miles a day.
This weekend I had planned on a longer ride, but the first day was fouled up by Kentucky flooding. I know some of you are thinking, "What would a Kentucky flood have to do with your ride in Oregon?" My friends GPS unit was next day shipped to my house, only that the airport in Kentucky had flooding issues and the plane never left. We then learn that everything you see about UPS shipping is a lie. Those arrival scans and departure scans, fabricated by a system to let customers feel like they know where their package is, but really is little more than a computer program telling you where it should be according to the itinerary. Some customer service reps know this issue, others obviously don't and we talked to a mix of them, and the final one said, yes your package is at the hub where it should be and you can pick it up.
Instead of riding our bikes around getting 50-80 miles we ended up in a clown car going to UPS just to be told about the above scheme and that we were the 10th person there that morning. After getting back to my place, disappointed that he won't have the GPS unit, we got changed and were ready to ride... except my friend realizes he left his shoes at home and had worn sandals to my place. Options were fairly thin on the ground, and me already being a much stronger athlete and faster than him we realized that even if we switched out flat pedals it was going to be a sucky ride.
By the time this got done it was already almost 1 o'clock and due to the Easter holiday and Costco's observance of it we needed to be going to Costco that night before 6pm. So what was originally planned to be a fun 50-80 mile day ended up being a fast 40 mi (18.4mph average) with little elevation.
I then planned on Sunday to try and get up early and do a century ride which I had mapped out. A few problems cropped up in this plan. First, I got to sleep too late to get up early. Second, getting out the door 2.5 hours late I no longer had time for the century ride. Third, going up the hill I realize my calf that has been bothering me while running is starting to feel a little bothersome while riding. I then decide to call off the ride at the top of a 5 mile long hill and 1650' of elevation. I descend back into town with a total of 26 mi.
A weekend which was to have around 120 miles turned into 66 miles. A little disappointing, but I kicked ass on that hill.