Haven't read/posted here in a while--crazy busy at work the last few weeks. It paid off-I didn't get caught by the lay-off happening in my dept.

Finally got the cyclocomputer working on the commuter. It CAN'T be right. I'm riding an MTB with slicks and a trunk on a rack. My average speed this week has been 15.6mph with a high of 25mph. That seems fast to me. Is it???

A couple of good ones from my commutes this week. Tuesday a driver in a pickup lays on the horn, on a 2-lane each way plus a center turn lane road. He's not even in my lane, and there's no one anywhere around; he did it just be an a$$hole. I wave to let him know I hear him...and then the light in front of us changes to yellow. I speed up a little to catch him at the (now red) light. He runs the red to get away from me before I get there. COWARD!

This morning another pickup nearly hit me. I'm taking the right lane, which is an RTO and ends about 75 yards ahead. I'm going straight, so I need to get over. I check shoulder, see a pickup a good distance back and in the left lane, and signal that I'm moving left. He speeds up, buzzes me (missed by maybe a foot), then gets in the right lane. I figure he's turning right up ahead--I mean, why else buzz me then change lanes, right? No. He now gets back in the straight-thru lane and speeds up again (must have been doing 70 in a 55). I don't need to tell any of you--never used a signal in any of this BS. He's probably the 6th or 7th driver who's done this to me on that stretch of road; I wonder if I should ask the local sheriff to post a car there?