{"id":133,"date":"2012-03-29T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nbg-irelandtrainingrides.posterous.com\/heat-wave-high-spot-cracks"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:27","slug":"heat-wave-high-spot-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/03\/29\/heat-wave-high-spot-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat Wave – High Spot – Cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The skies were blue. It was warm (in the low 60’s). Rare. Especially for a March day in Ireland.\u00a0Instead of spending it in the saddle, I worked on my wheel. Seems the 1\/2 inch high spot I was able to get away with on US roads is a prescription for trouble here. I was able to pull the small bump in my rim down to almost nothing today but six miles of the best Tarmac I could find after my attempted fix led to two cracks in the afflicted area.\u00a0I spoke to Jim Spillane about this and he suggested I anneal the bad part of the rim. Good thing Pawel has a forge!!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The skies were blue. It was warm (in the low 60’s). Rare. Especially for a March day in Ireland. Instead of spending it in the saddle, I worked on my wheel. Seems the 1\/2 inch high spot I was able to get away with on US roads is a prescription for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eagle-hiwheel","category-ireland","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-29","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8424,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/07\/29\/pawel-guba-saves-eagle-once-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":133,"position":0},"title":"Pawel Guba Saves Eagle Once Again!!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"July 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"These Irish roads, as I keep saying, that are so \u00a0hard on my bikes, turned \u00a0the simple rim true & steer tube straighten job that Pawel thought he was doing into a half a day's worth of work for him. 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