{"id":148,"date":"2012-03-16T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nbg-irelandtrainingrides.posterous.com\/evolution-of-an-eagle-crack"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:28","slug":"evolution-of-an-eagle-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/03\/16\/evolution-of-an-eagle-crack\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of an Eagle Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/39085994-img_2315.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/39085994-img_2315.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"39085994-IMG_2315\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Many of the Irish back roads I&#8217;ve been riding have been hard on the Eagle. On a positive note, they expose chinks in the Eagle&#8217;s armor sooner than if I were training on US roads. Palo Alto readers will remember the meltdown a cracked rim caused me two years ago. Well back on San Francisco Bay Area roads, the bumpy ride this caused got worse and worse over a matter of a few months. Here in Ireland, I had a near destroyed wheel, from one metal tear to two, six inches apart, in a matter of one 90 minute ride. Better to know about these things now than on my upcoming ride across America. Toward which end, I will be hard at work looking for probable causes&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>Blacksmith Pawel to the rescue!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"p_embed p_image_embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/39085995-img_2323.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"356\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/img_3193-scaled1000\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/img_3193-scaled1000.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 3G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1338918696&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3193-scaled1000\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/img_3193-scaled1000.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-356 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/nbgireland.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/39085995-img_2323.jpg?w=225&#038;resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"39085995-IMG_2323\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Pawel did such a fine tig weld, you probably cannot see it in the picture I took of the rim after the Eagle and I just rolled 12 miles..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pawel did such a fine tig weld, you probably cannot see it in the picture I took after the Eagle and I just rolled 12 miles..<\/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":[82,80,33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacksmith","category-duplicate","category-eagle-hiwheel","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-2o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8773,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/11\/25\/blacksmithworld-class-metal-martial-artist-pawel-guba-heals-broken-eagle-yet-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":148,"position":0},"title":"Blacksmith\/World Class Metal &#038; Martial Artist, Pawel Guba, Heals Broken Eagle (yet again)","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"November 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Blacksmith\/World Class Metal & Martial Artist, Pawel Guba, at his studio, Global Metal Art, in Castlebar, Ireland welded my Eagle HiWheel today. Until I can get a cotter pin re-machined (Jim Spillane says he can do it), I had Pawel weld the pedal arm to the wheel axle. Bad call\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blacksmith&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blacksmith","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/blacksmith\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":339,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/03\/23\/irish-road-punishment\/","url_meta":{"origin":148,"position":1},"title":"Irish Road Punishment","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"March 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The roads of Ireland have been hard on my bikes. My Eagle and my bent have both visited Blacksmith Pawel in the last few days Here he is welding two more cracks that developed on my Eagle. And I just found another today....... 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As in, I couldn't ride Ireland without all his great new age blacksmithing skills. 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