bowser29

short segments of my daily commute from work

troyWI

hot. Was 80 and 83% humidity this morning...dew point was 70. Will be 101 when I leave for home this afternoon.

Evil Mastermind

Was a beautiful, cool morning ride, and an easy cruise back home before noon. Tried out some SPD clipless pedals/shoes for the first time and am happy to report that I didn't fall over once Also my new brass crane bell is hella loud!

TrekCommuter

Humid going to work; hot and humid returning from work. On the way home, I saw a yahoo in a beater mini-van doing roughly 45mph on a residential street. Luckily his machine was a real rust-bucket, or he might have been going even faster.

You see a lot of crazy crap when you commute by bike.

Rimmer

I saw a man in his cage creeping into the intersection while looking to his right. He was making a left turn. I was looking at him and wondering when he was going to stop. Since this road has a speed limit of 15mph, I'm in the center of the road. Well, he eventually stopped, but not where he should have stopped. This was about 5-10min before sunset. Good thing I had my headlight on. I swallowed a bug. Gnats are getting bad around here. I saw a freak with tattoos all over its face. On the way back home I kept getting red lights.

M.R.Serecka

got on the road early this morning and rode 15 miles before the ball sweat of day could give me a heat stroke. current goal is at least 17 miles. hope to beat 21 miles by the end of today. the stars were still out when i hit the road about 4:30 this morning. had some little critter rushing next to me for a bit maybe a skunk. saw the sun rise.

vtjim

68F/20C, humid, and overcast. We had some powerful storms roll through last night. One street that slopes down to the street I was on is torn up for paving so there was a big debris field of dirt and rocks all over my street. I caught another bicyclist before the mess and we both took the lane to get around it. Traffic was light but we did make one car slow down for us.

I need some cheese to go with my whine. I'm really getting sick and tired of heat and humidity. Make it stop!

CptjohnC

Today I rode my bike the 1.3 miles to metro. That was almost 2 hours ago. I'm still sweating.

Yesterday's ride home was on the tough side. The heat was really taking its toll. Had a woman on a tri bike wave me past after we climbed a hill, even though she had been keeping a pretty good lead on me up to that point. I'd creep up on her on the bigger hills, but she'd pull away pretty handily on the lesser inclines, declines and flats. Maybe she was afraid I was looking at her derriere ;-)

wphamilton

I love these mid-70's temperatures, a really nice ride. I took a side trip to a convenience store at the end, which I always like because there's enough of a grade coming back to hit the high 30's mph. Briefly. But still fun.

SteamingAlong

It was 88 degrees here at 7am in the morning. It's a little humid too. I got cutoff by some jerk pulling out of parking lot. Other than that it was uneventful.

Leebo

Good ride yesterday pm, North of Boston. 95F at 5:00. Packed extra shorts and a towel, 1/2 way through a 17 mile commute home, jumped into a lake for 20 minutes. Nice.

dcb23

Got stuck in an unpleasant construction situation on the way home last night, road al of sudden became very narrow, homebound hyper commuters were zipping by me. Yuck.

Inbound this morning was much better! Smooth sailing all the way.

fletchh

I am in late due to a dental appt, and it was a brutal ride in at 92f (33c). It is worse coming in today, then leaving yesterday. I will be taking my time going home.

gevad 

Yeah, I came in at 8:00 this morning with 80-80 conditions -- 80 F and 80% humidity. It's a lot hotter than that now (approaching 100 F), but with the humidity down to below 40%, I think the ride home may be less depleting even though it gains about 850 feet in 10 miles.

curbtender

Started off Monday with a flat that used up my insurance time, followed by 25 mph headwinds going in. Tuesday, jockey pulley locked up and bent my derailuer so I lost my low gearing (aluminum spacer cracked in half). Got it dialed in last night and had a carefree ride today.

cycronin

Faced some pretty brutal headwinds before I even got to the trail on the way back, and briefly thought about shaving five miles off the commute by hopping on the light rail. But I kept going. The wind killed any motivation I had to push the pace about 1/3 of the way into my ride back. Even though the winds eventually eased up I settled into a very leisurely pace.

fletchh

Cooler this morning and welcomed at that, 76f (24c). Yesterday was one for the books for me. Going up hill, it was almost impossible to breathe without sucking in very hot air, and it didn't matter which way I turned my head. I am not sure what my limit for hight temps is, but yesterday had to be close.

dcb23

I have a short commute so I don't suffer near;ly as much as you do but I did take a short run in the evening after the rain and boy did I sweat.

Yesterday's ride home featured hyper drivers scaring the hell out of me...but karma stepped. As I came upon two of these cars at a different intersection, one had rear ended the other at the stop light.

Nice ride in this morning.

mjw16

Humid. I've been at work, dressed/rinsed off, for over an hour now. I'm still sweating...

essiemyra

it was a nice ride in this morning, temps on the cooler side, but no complaints here after all the heat we have been having.

Leebo, I am a little jealous of your commute home the other day where you mentioned swimming in a lake for 20 minutes. I sure wish I had something like that on my way home.

HardyWeinberg

60F, gray, great!

EKW in DC

Been quite a while since I've posted here, but I've been riding. Not particularly enjoying the summer heat, but enjoying my commute as always nevertheless. I was away from work and the commute for several weeks in late spring while on paternity leave following the birth of our first kid, a little boy. I didn't miss work, but I did miss my hour plus per weekday in the saddle. Now I'm getting in my commute miles I miss my time at home with my wife and son. The bike commute is probably the only thing that makes my return to work stomachable.

Getting ready to head out for the evening ride home. Summertime can be a PITA with all the idiots who hit the roads and the trails. Plenty of salmon, daredevil time realists, etc, etc. Can't wait for the colder weather and the lighter traffic of fall and winter. The dark evenings will finally allow me to get even more use out of my new dynamo powered lights.

Thomas Brock

Finally able to ride after donating some blood stem cells for a cancer patient...

Nice ride this morning. A little humid but not too warm (only in high 70s). Nothing remarkable on the way into work.

On the way home I got to see a pretty large herd of deer led by a pretty large and largely-antlered buck. Pretty cool! Also beat a storm home. No rain here yet, but I saw lightning and heard thunder about 5 miles from the house.

Glad to be back on the saddle!

making

Today was my weirdest ride ever. It was pretty windy so I wasnt exactly flying. Within a mile of my office I had a pick up truck fight me for my lane, he got it but I explained how brilliant he is to him. According to his plates he was from the sticks in southern Indiana so he probably wasnt used to city traffic. I took off and forgot about it. Then less than a mile further on I came up to a parking garage. A car was pulling out, stopped and appeared to be waiting for me to pass. I was watching it and was in my bike lane, but that car looked like it might pull out, just had a feeling. A guy on the side walk walked out in front of her so I relaxed and started pedaling again. She took off, blasted the guy walking, I guess she just did not see him or me. He jumped up on the hood and bounced off, he did not fall down but walked/staggered off. I was right in front of her as he bounced off the hood, if it hadnt been him and I wasnt watching her for sure she would have hit me. Anyway, the guy walked off at least till I could not see him in my rear view anymore. Ok cool, 2 miles and it has already been a mildly eventful ride home. Then on the next corner the light turned red as I pulled up to it, so I stopped. There were two guys and a woman in dress clothes. Very conservative dressed except her skirt was a bit short but she still looked appropriately dressed to be an attorney in one of the offices in the area. Well the walked to the corner and turned to cross the next street, the wind blew, I dont know how to say this exactly, but her skirt could have been a kite. I am not sure if she had anything undre it or not, but it was very pleasant, she didnt even act like she knew she was mooning the world. But it was nice. The light changed and it was ride or get run over. Darn. The rest of the ride there was a lot of motorist on motorist stuff. Our local Johnson's heating and air conditioning guy was riding the bumper of the car in front of him and honking and yelling and stuff at it. Another driver followed someone else into a gas station yelling and stuff too. But the really really weird think was just shy of the half way mark. It is a two lane with wide well marked bike lane. The road has a lot of traffic and but is pretty safe, long and straight. About .5 mile (or so) off I see a bike in my lane headed toward me. It drives me nuts when people do this, the bike lanes even have little arrows telling them which way to go. Anyway I see him quite a ways off, as we got closer I realized it was a very small bike, like a haro bike or something. I thought dang a kid, well at least that is why he is in my lane. As we drew closer it was a very very small bike, like a smaller child. I was thinking damn, that kid is just too little to be on this road and was debating on how to get and keep the kid off the road without scaring him. I did not have to think about it long, a little bit closer I realized the kid was about 40. Probably the littlest adult I have ever seen. But I had to be very close to realize it. Full beard, bad attitude looking face and stuff, but seemed to fit pretty well on a small childs bike. It really was a pretty nice ride, just different.

fletchh

There should be a compliation of short stories about all our encounters with cars, buses, trucks, and others. It would make great reading. Easy ride in the dark, drizzly, but just a film on everything 73f (23c). Thre were great thunder storms last night and everything cooled off for a short break from the heat.