Wonderful weather, but a friggin' strong headwind. Feels like the fall has so far consistently brought 10-30mph headwinds in the morning. But with this as my view for the first two miles of the commute, I can't complain that much. My camera phone doesn't do the blazing colors justice.



A total badass commuter on a fixie passed me safely and courteously at the slight upgrade at 125th St. I was taking it slow until then, but he inspired me. I'd seen him before, so when I caught up to him at the 104th St playgrounds I told him he was free to hop on my wheel if he wanted to get out of the headwind a bit and not kill himself on his one gear. Near 65th St or so he took over, gunning me through my last mile. "Wow, that really makes a difference!" he said with a smile as he pulled ahead of me. I pulled off at 45th St really winded. That dude had some super strong legs, and the challenge of staying fast in the headwind was pretty fun.

Bad rumor once I got to the freight elevator of my office building, though. Apparently the landlord is sick of bikes in the building and is going to build a rack outside and not allow any bikes in the elevators. Without security and a roof, though, the rack will be useless. Hopefully it's just a rumor, but if not we'll try to sic Bloomberg's bikes in office buildings law on him. Too bad that law has gaping loopholes.