Subject: Storing your bike inside your car - problems? I just bought my first tri bike on Sunday (don't worry, I won't spoil it for you, I'll be adding a pj0rn thread as soon as the fit is done on Friday ), and it was properly tuned when I left the LBS. I have an SUV, so I keep my bike stored inside my car while I'm at work. I was planning on getting a ride in yesterday after work, but I ended up getting stuck at work and decided I'd go for my first ride this morning instead. The temperature rose to 92 degrees yesterday so the inside of my car was extremely hot when I drove home. Anyway, long story long, I went for my first test ride this morning and everything was all screwed up. The front shifter wouldn't go into the big ring, rear cogs were ghost shifting, computer sensor wouldn't read the magnet, and I had this really annoying clicking noise the entire ride. None of this was like this on Sunday when I picked up the bike. Im headed back to the LBS today to get all this fixed. Could the heat inside my car have caused the cables to stretch (and caused screws to loosen )? I know cable stretch is common on new bikes, but I thought that was normally after 200-500 miles, not 0. Should I crack the windows on days when I know its not going to rain? Should I just take the bike inside my office building? There is a place to store it, but I'm on the 10th floor so it's not exactly easily accessible. |