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Old 09-26-17 | 06:46 AM
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From: Sudbury, ON, CA

Bikes: 2012 Kona Sutra, 2002 Look AL 384, 2018 Moose Fat bike

In my smallish city of 90,000 (regional population is 160,000), it is not common to see fancy cars: there's a Ferrari in town and an a Austin Martin as well but a fair number of Porsches. However, last night, on the commute home, I was passed by a Bentley, it was pretty nice.

Warm (28C/82F) commute home but it felt drier, not so humid. I decided to go for a longer commute into work this morning, stretch my legs a bit after the 400km (over 4 days) charity ride I did 10 or so days ago so I went for a 46.1km/28.6mi loop that ended at work and I was able to complete it at an average rate of 27.4kmh/17.0mph which I think is the fastest I've ridden this route to date: yay, my legs are still good! I knew that I was going to start in the dark, at 6:10am but I had hoped that the sky would be brighter by 6:30 but I wasn't comfortable turning my front light from beam to flashing until nearly 7am. As good as I feel about this ride, I have to ride on too many unlit streets and paved shoulder of the highway for too long to feel really comfortable so this loop will have to be done after work or on a weekend if I want to ride it again this year.

It was a comfortable 17C/63F ride in this morning but it, again, it going to be warm this afternoon with a forecasted 27C/81F temperature and a humidex of 34C/93F. However, it appears that tonight it will cool down to seasonal averages of daily highs in the high-teens (18C=64F) and overnight lows in the high single digits (9C=48F).

Have a great day everyone!
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