Steaming Bearings

I have been delayed for a few more days here in bBay. Which is good for the work but frankly I’ve had enough. Now the rains have come, it’s gone from 40º, dry and dusty, to 36º, humid and muddy. The temperature drop is welcome but the humidity is not. Choosing a cab in the morning is a lottery as the Italian engineered, made by Indians taxis are, as you can imagine, a little bit sensitive to damp… This trip I have had to push one cab for 400 yards to bump start it and yesterday I got out of one because I became convinced the wheel was going to fall off. That’s because it was: I had a professional look and a kick when I got out and the bearings were steaming. I also noticed that the retread had come off and we were running mostly on inner tube but that’s fairly normal. It is however like running racing slicks on a wet racetrack – lethal. So, if finding one that goes wasn’t hard enough, finding one that stops is even more of a challenge.

~ by matthewgrey on 6 June, 2008.