Bike to work for a week goal – Day four – Failure
Commute by bicycle turns to Ride-share
I feel like I have let myself down. Yesterday I noticed an odd skipping that happened occasionally while riding the Trek 770 that I occasionally use to commute. So I made a derailleur adjustment and thought I would ride it today. Just outside of town, the chain started skipping again when I changed gears to go up a hill. I stopped, made an adjustment and road on. About two mile later it started happening again. I stopped, checked for a frozen link, found none, made another derailleur adjustment and road on. Less than a mile down the road it was happening again! I just continued to ride as at this point I was more than half way to work.
Three fourths to work and my chain breaks! I hadn’t thought of checking for a break. Rats!
Luckily a cycling friend had passed moments earlier on his way to work. He commutes by car three days a week. I called him on his cell phone and he turned around, came back and picked me up. We put the bike on the top of the car and we were off ride-sharing on our way to work. 
Better still, he had fixed up the bike last year for his daughter to ride, and as she is spending a semester abroad, I borrowed the bike back and was using it occasionally. He had now wanted it back for his son to ride. I had been promising to give it back for a month, as I wanted to give it a thorough cleaning first, and now it is on his car. Sounds like I got out of a cleaning job.