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 When I got on the bike this morning, I noticed the gap between the left pedal and the blue bike frame. It might have always been there but I hadn't noticed it until now and it's worrying me. In the last couple of days before I reached Little Rock, there was a clicking coming from that crank shaft. When the mechanic in Little Rock tried to adjust the gears, he found that the problem was that the whole crank shaft had slid too far to the right, which he said explained the clicking. He had to exert quite some force to fix it: more force than I would be able to apply without the correct tools and more than I would like to apply given that I wouldn't actually know what I was doing. Now the clicking is back and I wonder whether either the shaft has slid too far to the left or the pedal is starting to come off. The screw which attaches the pedal to the shaft uses a size of hex spanner which I don't have. If something around there does fall off, I won't be able to fix it. I've looked at pictures of the bike which I took earlier in the trip on this website but the resolution isn't good enough to see whether that gap was always there. I don't want to have to get the laptop out and look at the high-resolution pictures because I want to get a move on today. My destinsation is about 60 miles away and there is rain forecast there starting some time between 1 and 2 o'clock. I want to be there by the time the hotel opens at 3 o'clock to avoid getting wetter than I have to. UTC Time: 14:51, Tuesday 23 April 2024 Local Time: 09:51, Tuesday 23 April 2024 Estimate of longitude: 88° 55′ 28.06″ W = -88.924460° Estimate of latitude: 38° 19′ 38.82″ N = 38.327450° Possible error on position estimate: 5 metres | |