I took a slightly different route to college tonight, taking a bike laned street (Beverley) rather than a fairly main artery (Spadina) - was a bad rough ride, road surface in the bike lane was total crap on most of the way to College St. Anyway, uneventful ride there. Ride back was via a friends house, and I took a one way with speed bumps, managed to beat the cars down there. My cyclo-computer tells me I picked up a max of 26mph, and the first leg to my friends averaged 18mph, which is new for me (though it was barely 2 miles, so no surprise I guess).

Rest of the ride from there to home was mainly plain sailing, had a cab not give me much room after some lights and I was moving out to start passing the parked cars - but I just gave some verbal and he went on his way.

Ride scheduled for Friday is looking to be a good one, firstl leg of 14 miles and somewhat uphill (downtown to North York).

I love riding my bike.
Picking up 26mph and hitting speedbumps is awesome - I also blew all but one of the stop signs on the minor residential streets, visibility was fine around the corners and I obviously had my fingers poised to anchor on (as I had to tonight when an a$$hat raccoon decided to run up/across the street directly in my path, causing a slide skid and cursing).
Feels so good to ride. G'night.