Nice ride overall but it didn't start like one. I roll out of my neighborhood and see another bike commuter going my direction. He's moving fast but we say good morning to each other and I fall into pursuit mode to catch up. All of a sudden I hear an ugly scraping noise coming from my front tire. I pull over and see that my right front fender bracket had fallen off from where it attaches to the fender. Ugh. I end up removing the bracket and thank goodness the fender didn't scrape against the front tire. A very basic commuter lesson revisited: do those safety checks prior to hitting the road.