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Meeow! Any trick or treating? My wife is going with my son later on after day care.

First day commuting to my new office (From Downtown Charlotte to the Northlake Mall Region), I did a light jacket, since I'm a recent transplant from Florida and haven't mastered the cool weather yet.

My chicks fledged a few years ago. We live in an apartment building with only 12 apartments, and only two of the apartments have kids. I guess I should bring home a little candy on the low probability they will knock on our door.

We used to live in Maplewood, NJ which looks like a Norman Rockwell painting. It was such a great place for trick-or-treating that parents from bad neighborhoods would drive their kids to ours, which I thought was a nice thing.

Hey - a Charlotte person. Welcome!

I tend to under dress compared to all other riders I see. But I travel light and don't have much storage for shedding layers. I'm fine being a little cold to start off as I'll inevitably warm up as the miles go by.

I bring my whole outfit for work with me, two panniers, so I have room to stash, that's for sure. I was up in your neck of the woods over the weekend, looked like lots of good riding that way.

A very nice uneventful commute in the dark with the temp at 29f degrees.

I had to do some trick-or-treater dodging on the way home last night. Nothing crazy, but definitely slowed down a bit as they looked like they could dart across the street at any moment.

This morning I rode to the gym, worked out a bit, then rode to work. It was overcast and mild for the first ride. Then at 7:30 it was misting and felt cooler out. I wasn't expecting that. But I made it to work fine and even stopped to deposit some checks on the way.

And now, I'm hungry.

Nice ride in this morning, comfortably cool, 5C/41F, but with a headwind at parts and a little bit of wet spray in the air. MBT shorts with knee-high wool socks, thin, long-sleeved merino base layer under a fleece jacket, Buff folded as a beanie under my helmet and medium weight long-fingered gloves: altogether, nice and warm although with the backpack on my back, my back was sweaty. I left at about 6:30am and rode in the dark the whole way including an unlit dirt road which was fun with my nice MEC light on bright setting.

Trick-or-treaters all over the place on my ride home last night, even before it got dark. Took it easy so I wouldn't run over any kids and rang my bell a lot.

Legs were tired this morning, probably from riding four days in a row, so my pace was slower than usual. It's dark enough now during my morning commute that my front light is essential for the first half of the ride, but that will change this weekend with the end of daylight savings time. My morning ride will return to daylight and the afternoon ride will be mostly in the dark. I would rather have the extra daylight in afternoons because the traffic is much heavier then, but more importantly I wish "they" would just settle on one time and stick to it year round. I hate readjusting to the time changes every spring and fall.

Did not ride this morning but on my way back home yesterday I almost caught up between railroad crossing. While I was passing RR crossing the bell started to ring so I was in hurry to pass quickly and my front wheel got parallel to the rail track gap and bike fell. I quickly walked out with bike out of tracks safely. I did not fell with bike and I don't think nothing broken but it was bit scary. I shouldn't be too hurry on RR crossing next time as I would still have time to cross.

63F this morning, and dark as always. Lots of gravel or some crap in the bike lane; not sure where it's coming from but it gets worse every week. Had to go through a red light after I waited on it for a long while and it just wouldn't turn green. Very strange since I can normally trigger other lights but this particular one tends to give me grief. Other than that the ride in to work was uneventful. I've been out of the saddle for a week or so now, and it feels great to be riding again.

Seasonally appropriate cold ride today, which was nice, with bright stars above me. But the train was not heated. It's kinda bizarre, actually, I think the heat was on on the train when I first got on, but it got steadily colder. Unpleasant.

Did the Bike/Bus commute this morning... so only 1-mile to the bus stop and then 1-mile after I get off the bus to the office.

As I was still in my neighborhood, a lady coming off a side street pulled right out in front of me. I'm hyper-sensitive to cars approaching from side streets since that seems to be where I've had my closest calls. She got close enough that I could see she wasn't looking in my direction at all. I yelled 'HEY!' to get her attention as I was slamming on my brakes. It worked. She stopped, apologized and we all went on our way... and hopefully she is a little more careful in the future.

Yep to the danger mentoned above about side streets crossing the main road on which we are pedaling. They are, without a doubt, the roads from which come my worst automobile encounters.

Nice ride this morning. I had to leave a half hour early to be here for a meeting. It resulted in a much better traffic pattern than when I aim for 8AM arrival. Tomorrow will require about the same thing as I have a customer coming in who will be here at 8. The only downside is that it is dark the whole way in. But, that's not a problem, IMO.

Yesterday and today! I was going to drive in today, but had a lot of pancakes last night for dinner, so I figured I may as well burn calories today. I thought I found a bit of a shortcut, and it certainly felt shorter, but distance ended up being the same. It was a good ride though. It's humid/overcast and pretty sure I had a bit of a tailwind this morning.

On the ride home yesterday I had a rare traffic backup at a light and was able to cruise past everyone in the bike lane. I love it when that happens.

Supposed to get another inch of rain today after yesteday's inch-and-a-quarter but it actually stopped just as I got my bike out of the garage (but not in time for my kids heading to their schools). It was still plenty wet from all directions. Our October had already been the rainiest on record before this weekend and yesterday.

Yesterday's 1.25" came in 3 bursts basically: while I was riding in, while I was riding home, and while I was out trick-or-treating w/ my daughter and her friend. I'm amazed her hot glue job kept the feathers on her outfit all night.

55F this morning and supposed to be 79 this evening. So much for the first of November!

woke up to 50 degrees. Warmer than yesterday's high temp. Shorts and long sleeve shirt was it. Roads were still wet from last nights rain so it was a bit messy riding my Anyroad without fenders. Had a very nice tailwind. Came around a corner to a busy multi-line rail crossing to find they had road closed barricades up and an engine parked there idling. That forced a detour with an extra mile but with the tailwind it was a pleasant ride anyway. Be battling that same wind on the way home but the sun is out and it's pretty warm for a November day.

bright flashing and bicycles seem to be invisible in KC. The temperature has been un-seasonably warm here - a little strange.

The ride in was a nice ride except for my being warm. I was overdressed for the 48f degree temperature this morning. And I lost my hat last night on my way home as I had it tucked under the strap of my trunk bag. It must have fallen off. Hopefully I will see it the next time I ride that route, which will not be before Friday.

Super foggy morning. I was glad I was wearing my reflective suspenders deal. Riding down one hill was kinda scary fun as I couldn't see anything beyond 25 feet in front of me.

This image was taken at a parking lot I cut through about 1 mile from my house. It looked cooler than it shows here.

This morning it was about 47F, I was very comfortable for the ride with layers.

Because yesterday I met a coyote who stopped and let me get uncomfortably close on the trail before I started yelling and scared it away, this morning I tried getting off the trail earlier, and took some surface streets through residential areas to work. It was very nice.

As I've said before, the coyotes around here are HUGE--not sure if it's from hybridization with dogs, or just cause of great food sources (bunnies). They don't seem skittish, they're pretty bold. As an adult bicycle rider, I probably don't have anything to worry about, but it makes me nervous. Especially cause I encountered 2 together a couple of mornings ago.

Of course, you could say that I am the one encroaching on their territory, because greenways often are highways for wildlife to pass through, in, and among sub/urban areas.

Gray, cloudy, upper 30s, not too bad. Only 2 full days left for daylight savings commuting here in the far north so I take what I can get. Winding it down the last few weeks with the full tourer (t700), a great bike for this time of year with lights, pannier, fenders, wide tires. Tough to see the end of the line for 2016 commute season.

I think today is the last of the unseasonably warm weather so I'm going to enjoy it! Got called a f@#$%ing a-hole on the ride home yesterday. I pulled into an intersection with a car coming up on the left - I saw him coming and knew I could make it across though he was going way too fast and wasn't paying attention to the flashing light that signaled the trail crossing (or anything else for that matter). I probably deserved his curses but I know I scared the crap out of the guy so it was worth it!

I heard that some apartment buildings in the city handed out a list of participating apartments to the kids. Sounded like a nice idea and speeds up the process a bit. Maplewood is a nice town. Have been to the movie theater there once or twice if I recall. It was a nice one that showed limited distribution movies like the Clairidge theater in Montclair. We did not get a lot of trick or treaters this year. Maybe 15 or so? Typical for our neighborhood for many years so far. My son had a nice time and filled up his bucket and could not carry it. He also mentioned that he had too much candy! I thought that there was no such thing for trick or treaters. :D

Back on topic: It was a nice commute this morning at around 54F. I put on the knee warmers but am looking forward to shed them this afternoon. Today and tomorrow might be the last shorts wearing days left for this season. It will be ~69F this afternoon and up to 71F tomorrow afternoon.

Edit: Don't know what the story was but there was another traffic jam from the GWB all the way to Lenonia/Teaneck exit on Rt 95 again. Also trafficky on Ft Lee Rd and uptown Manhattan as well.