God Bless Daylight Savings Time
03-11-08, 06:27 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 663
Bikes: 2007 Trek 1500
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
God Bless Daylight Savings Time
Today was the first Tuesday/Thursday evening ride of the year; sun shining, temps in the seventies, breeze blowing in the right direction (half the time), going 25 mph for 4 or 5 miles and then getting dropped like a bad habit after my second pull... it was great. I love being able to ride in the evening! God Bless Daylight Savings Time!
03-11-08, 06:54 PM
#4
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Hudson Valley, NY
Posts: 32,996
Bikes: Merlin Cyrene '04; Bridgestone RB-1 '92
Mentioned: 325 Post(s)
Tagged: 2 Thread(s)
Quoted: 11966 Post(s)
Liked 6,632 Times
in
3,478 Posts
Hallelujah!
__________________
See, this is why we can't have nice things. - - smarkinson
Where else but the internet can a bunch of cyclists go and be the tough guy? - - jdon
03-11-08, 06:54 PM
#5
Peloton Shelter Dog
You mean Night of the Living Dead Time.
03-11-08, 07:08 PM
#7
Peloton Shelter Dog
That's odd, because at 6:30AM on Sunday in Central Park it was Where the F is the Daylight Time. Aka Night of the Living Dead Time.
You sniveling lunchpail johnnies.
You sniveling lunchpail johnnies.
03-11-08, 07:29 PM
#8
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Columbus, OH -- Randolph, NJ
Posts: 226
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I hate daylight savings. I'd much rather hurry home from work and have my 90 minute ride then have to wake up to the stars. A 40 minute drive every morning kills me when its dark out.
03-11-08, 07:30 PM
#9
Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
Daylight Savings 
Time + 4-hour jet lag + trying to get back to the usual work schedule = teh suck 
Time + 4-hour jet lag + trying to get back to the usual work schedule = teh suck
03-11-08, 07:38 PM
#11
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 663
Bikes: 2007 Trek 1500
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
The way I look at it, it can be darker out from 8-9 AM while I'm in the office, heck if I care. 5 PM - 10 PM on a weekday is MY TIME, and I'd much rather have the sun up during my time than during "the man's" time (8 AM - 4 PM for me, with 4-5 PM being my commute)
03-11-08, 08:08 PM
#14
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Alexandria, VA
Posts: 22
Bikes: 2004 Iron Horse Triumph Comp w/ shimano 105
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I took full advantage of it for a nice ride after work this evening.
03-11-08, 09:22 PM
#15
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,154
Bikes: (2) 2004 Trek 1500, Team Colors:2004 Cannondale Ironman w/ Renn and Zipp: 2005 Kestrel Talon SL: 2001 GT Agressor: 2001 Schwinn Moab: 2001 Specialized S-Works M4 Festina Team Bike: 2002 Pinarello Prince: 1980 Schwinn Voyageur 11.8
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
03-11-08, 10:04 PM
#17
In Real Life
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Down under down under
Posts: 52,152
Bikes: Lots
Mentioned: 141 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3203 Post(s)
Liked 596 Times
in
329 Posts
Yeah, it's just fabulous. 
Back to driving to the university in the dark on Monday mornings. Back to inconvenient time differences between here and Australia. Yay. I wish they'd just leave it alone, and NOT in daylight savings time! 
Back to driving to the university in the dark on Monday mornings. Back to inconvenient time differences between here and Australia. Yay. I wish they'd just leave it alone, and NOT in daylight savings time!
__________________
Rowan
My fave photo threads on BF
Century A Month Facebook Group
Machka's Website
Photo Gallery
Rowan
My fave photo threads on BF
Century A Month Facebook Group
Machka's Website
Photo Gallery
03-11-08, 10:12 PM
#18
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Topanga, but I'm not a hippy
Posts: 2,820
Bikes: IF Club Racer, Bike Friday Pocket Rocket
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
huh?
Anyway. The next 2-3 weeks will be kind of annoying, it's too dark in the morning to get in a good ride before work, and it still gets dark too early to get in a good ride after work. In a few weeks it'll be light until 7:45 or so which will give me enough time to do my 20 mile loop after work. Then I'll be stoked
Til then, I''ll be in spin class.
Anyway. The next 2-3 weeks will be kind of annoying, it's too dark in the morning to get in a good ride before work, and it still gets dark too early to get in a good ride after work. In a few weeks it'll be light until 7:45 or so which will give me enough time to do my 20 mile loop after work. Then I'll be stoked
Til then, I''ll be in spin class.
__________________
just being
just being
03-11-08, 10:31 PM
#19
In Real Life
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Down under down under
Posts: 52,152
Bikes: Lots
Mentioned: 141 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3203 Post(s)
Liked 596 Times
in
329 Posts
huh?
Anyway. The next 2-3 weeks will be kind of annoying, it's too dark in the morning to get in a good ride before work, and it still gets dark too early to get in a good ride after work. In a few weeks it'll be light until 7:45 or so which will give me enough time to do my 20 mile loop after work. Then I'll be stoked Til then, I''ll be in spin class.
Anyway. The next 2-3 weeks will be kind of annoying, it's too dark in the morning to get in a good ride before work, and it still gets dark too early to get in a good ride after work. In a few weeks it'll be light until 7:45 or so which will give me enough time to do my 20 mile loop after work. Then I'll be stoked
Til then, I''ll be in spin class.I communicate to someone in Australia on a regular basis. With the daylight savings time coming into effect here last weekend I now have to be up past midnight, and when his daylight savings kicks in, I'll have to be up even later.
__________________
Rowan
My fave photo threads on BF
Century A Month Facebook Group
Machka's Website
Photo Gallery
Rowan
My fave photo threads on BF
Century A Month Facebook Group
Machka's Website
Photo Gallery
03-11-08, 10:33 PM
#20
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: people's republic of eugene oregon
Posts: 744
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 2 Times
in
2 Posts
I got in a quick 25 miles after work, and managed to have time for 4 short climbs. I must say I was very happy realizing spring is on the way and there is much more of this to come... waking up to the dark will be short lived.
03-11-08, 11:11 PM
#21
(not really a racer)
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Los Osos, CA
Posts: 62
Bikes: 2008 Cannondale Synanpse 7
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I <3 the extra light too. Did a quick 10-ish mile ride up and over and back up and over a local hill. Will I be able to pull off a century by the end of the summer??? We'll see.
03-12-08, 12:00 AM
#22
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Lexington KY
Posts: 874
Bikes: 1970s or 80s concord pacer, 2007 dawes roadbike, 2005 raleigh supercourse
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
03-12-08, 12:05 AM
#23
Look at all these buttons
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 984
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
You guys could always come checkout north dakota. it'll still be light here at 10pm during the summer.
You can go out after you get off of work at 5 or 6 and still get a full 18 holes of golf in without struggling to see the ball.
Of course... then you'd have to live in North Dakota.
You can go out after you get off of work at 5 or 6 and still get a full 18 holes of golf in without struggling to see the ball.
Of course... then you'd have to live in North Dakota.
03-12-08, 08:43 AM
#24
Mad bike riding scientist
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 27,362
Bikes: Some silver ones, a red one, a black and orange one, and a few titanium ones
Mentioned: 152 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 6219 Post(s)
Liked 4,217 Times
in
2,364 Posts
It kills me that a people who hate mornings so much will get together and 'agree' to wake up an hour earlier in the morning so that they can get off work earlier
__________________
Stuart Black
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Stuart Black
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
