September is turning out to be my worst cycling month in ages. First, I missed riding the entire Labor Day weekend while visiting family out of town. Then I missed most of this past weekend due to family visiting here from out of town. On top of that, we've had an incredible amount of this month, probably about 15" or more so far. It has been cloudy and rainy for the past 8-10 days here with some tremendous storms dropping 2-3" a shot. This week, I have to travel out of town for my job, so will miss another 3 days commuting.

The upside is that I got a new commuter bike, a Waterford RS-22 sport touring frame built up with parts swapped from my touring bike. I had initially planned to leave fenders off the bike and ride it on sunny days, but the weather this month convinced me to go ahead and install fenders. Around here, you really almost need fenders on a commuter bike if you are going to ride consistently.