spivonious

Good ride in this morning. Set another personal record for temperature: 9F when I left the house.

I actually got to work a bit sweaty. Between my knit hat and my windbreaker, my upper half was toasty.

No ride yesterday because of snow on the roads. On a brighter note, we had a productive League of Bicyclists meeting last night and have a good plan for this year.

Nice pic @KCBikeCommuter!

KCBikeCommuter

It's awesome to hear from you @joeyduck! Really hope you are feeling better and on your way to a full recovery!!!

My wife says I’m at least 50% ‘off’ most days.

Archwhorides 

@KCBikeCommuter , you are in fine shape. By contrast, when my ex-wife told me that I was 100% 'off', I knew that the sh't was going to hit the fan.

arsprod 

That is so cool! 17F this morning and windy, a real slog. I still have a bad attitude about the cold so I think it's time to buy a new bike (yeah, I know but it makes sense to me)

Ky_Rider

Amazing commuting miles! I'm hoping to get half that many miles. Good luck.

tarwheel 

I'm not trying to commute 10,000 miles in a year. No way I could do that! The 10K goal is for all riding -- commuting, touring and recreational. I usually get about half of my total annual mileage from commuting.

Archwhorides 

5 degrees F this morning in Boston, but fortunately with mild winds. Everything on the paths and roads was refrozen snow/ice, but I took my time and enjoyed the crunching and vibration of the roadbed underneath the studs.

GAPavedTrailRdr

30 degrees F in Atlanta with mild wind. Comfortable other than deciding that I needed thicker gloves. It's supposed to be in the 50s for the ride home.

Darth Lefty 

Are those reflectors or maybe wheel lights?

KCBikeCommuter

Wheel lights (Revolights). Although the picture makes it look like the front lights are pointing toward the back of the bike. Hmmmm... must be my extreme speed causing problems again.

timvan_78

12degC/54F and lightly raining this AM. Quite a bit of a headwind...I hope it keeps up.
My neck is still kind of stiff...I think from carrying my younger kid up the grouse grind (hike 2700' elevation gain). I thought he could hike more than 4 minutes. He turns 4 monday.

Buffalo Buff

I think I made some enemies on my commute today

Was pumped after a good workout. Left the gym late intentionally. Planned to haul as much ass as possible on my way to work, just felt pumped and ready to go.

everything was going great, even kept pace with traffic going 40mph for one short downhill stretch. Was flying. Then I see it. Giant row of red lights :/ Last mile or so was completely backed up with traffic. Didn't get to go even half as fast as I wanted.

I just rode to the side of all the cars and worked my way up to the last light before where I work. Got honked at and had a few people swerve their cars towards my to block my path.

Don't ****ing get it. Ok, you're stuck in traffic. That sucks. But I'm on a pencil dick road bike, no need for me to be stuck too when I can just go around you :/

Archwhorides 

Hah hah, drivers must be extra sensitive in N.C.! The Boston drivers don't seem to get that pissed unless I clip their side mirrors.

bconneraz

third day this week that my ride in started off clear and cool, and ended in heavy fog. Saturday is perhaps my favorite day to commute because traffic is so much lighter, and I'm able to take a shorter route that's usually packed with cars during the week. It's nice to have the change of scenery. My ride home was fun last night; I rolled down the MUT for several miles with another commuter who was pretty interesting. I'm going to mix it up a bit on the ride home this afternoon, and take a route I used to ride regularly before I settled into my current routine.

Buffalo Buff

I've noticed drivers HATE it anytime I'm passing them. Traffic was bad on a busy 45mph road and I was passing cars frequently. Saw a lot of them try to get in the other lane, floor it etc., just to get around me, only for me to pass them two seconds later.

I get it all the time. I'm claiming a lane, heading out of a parking lot, and someone drives into the oncoming traffic lane 50' before the parking lot ends just to get in front of me before pulling out into the road. Last time someone pulled that there was traffic coming, so while they waited I just pulled up right in front of them on my bike and gave them a wave and a smile, then pulled out first

TxSpeedster

Ride 'home' today was great. After work some coworkers and I fell in with about 500 other riders doing the Dallas local brewery circuit. Lots of tasty craft beer to be had along the way. After a stop for eats, we took an enjoyable turn around the Trinity River levees. Eventually lengthening shadows hastened the actual ride home.

Good times.

Daniel4

Last week was rough. On Monday Feb 2nd we woke up to 5 to 10cm of snow. In some parts of the city there was 20cm. So I took out my hiking poles and walked to work through the park trail were I normally go. Might get criticized by some because there’s bound to be tons of people who bike in the snow even though I didn’t - or maybe it's a Canadian thing.

Tuesday biked to work but stayed on the sidewalk avoiding the park trail until I crossed the DVP to safely bike on the street. I figured the snow in the park hadn’t been packed down enough. But the sidewalk was rough. I felt like it was only partially plowed but I figured the street plow must have messed up the sidewalk. Wednesday and Thursday biked on the sidewalk to work but on the return home, tried to bike through the park trail. Still too rough and deep.

Friday biked most of the way to work on the sidewalk and street but about a km to go my cassette was spinning. At first it felt like my chain had fallen off. When I was trying to put it back on, I noticed the cassette was all wobbly. When I got to work, I took the wheel off and brought it to my desk to examine. There was no way I could have put the cassette back on the wheel. At 3pm the bike mechanic at the nearest LBS only a block away said my wheel was toast and he didn’t have a wheel to replace it. My bike was a low cost dept store bike and wasn’t work paying $100 to fix.

Luckily a year before my son had picked up a bike that the neighbour had thrown out. It’s the same size wheel so on Saturday, I swapped the snow tires and got the second beater bike road worthy c/w bell, mirror, and rear pannier rack.

We’re getting 15cm on snow so I probably wouldn’t be riding tomorrow (Monday Feb 9th) but will give it another try on Tuesday.

mgw4jc

Unseasonably warm for the first part of this week. I wore shorts for this morning's 53F ride. However there is a chance of rain this afternoon. Nothing else exciting to report.

Darth Lefty 

I finally finished the fender installation on my intended-to-be-year-round-commuter bike, just in time to ride in on a rain-slicked morning. I gathered from Weather Underground that there was little risk of rain, it was just wet out. Boy, was this off base. The good news is that the SKS fenders did a great job with any wheel spatter. Bad news is that I still got chain gunk spattered on my right pant leg, and my topside got rained on. The storm has now passed and the rest of the day, week, probably year and decade at the rate we're going, will be dry and sunny and I'll never need the fenders again.

arsprod 

27F and wet from freezing fog. I had really hoped to ride my road bike (especially since this weekend was beautiful and in the upper 50's) but the work week brought winter back so studded tires it is. Still not as bad as you east-coasters have it

spivonious

Forecast was for a chance of freezing rain, but I decided to ride anyway. Turned out to be regular rain. Woohoo!

Darth Lefty 

Crushed it! Had a couple of PR's. I'm on Sudafed and Tylenol today, this doping thing is no joke

My morning ride was exactly the same route as the evening but Strava gave it another half mile distance. I checked the morning ride and it looks like I was pin-balling around the route. Strange!

Darth Lefty 

What the hell!

locolobo13 

That's what happens when you mix Tylenol and Sudafed! LOL

spivonious

A dusting of snow fell last night, but I figured the main roads would be clear. I was mostly right. There were some spots with a bit more slush that others, but vehicles were accommodating.

This morning, I noticed that my chain is rusting. Oops! I guess I haven't been lubing it regularly. It's time for a new one anyway; this one has about 2500 miles on it.