Originally Posted by
m78596c
I go-pro'd it the other day, and posted high speed version of it on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CLSyQLrxJI
Route::
Road conditions / surfaces: Fully paved, nice roads here (they fix potholes pretty fast)
Traffic: Not bad if I leave around 8, pretty busy before that. In the afternoon I take hillier side roads to avoid the 5:00 traffic.
Environment: In the city / downtown area.
Hills: If I go through a scary tunnel, minimal hills. If I avoid the tunnel (which normally I do), there's a 1 mile 4% climb, and then a nice steep quarter mile hill (maybe 12% at the steepest) up to the building I work in, no matter which way I go.
Helmet / Mirror: Helmet always, no mirror…
Thanks for that video, with a great soundtrack (though FWIW, I’m not a fan of that type of music, but it suited the video well). As I watched it, I thought the Environment was suburban for sure, then when I returned to your post, noted you call it “city / downtown area."
Maybe it was the speed of the playback, and I’m such a mirror maven, but the upcoming traffic made me nervous.
Addendum: I went back and looked some more, and I appeared to have skipped most of the city riding. Also, it looked like you showed two different rides (? to and from) and I caught the apparent suburban segments. When I get a chance, I'll have to return to the urban parts, since city riding is my favorite.