17 F this mornin. Better cold and solid than warm and mucky.

The ride home wasn't bad either.

Yesterday hit 70F in the afternoon, but then some clouds rolled in and it cooled off for the evening ride home. And some winds came with it.

There was a guy bleeding out a fire hydrant in one neighborhood. It was sending a big gush of water across the street. He saw me coming and adjusted the flow a bit, but I decided to jump on the sidewalk anyway to avoid the river running across and down the road.

A nice 43F for the ride in. Shorts only again for me. Still some winds, but they just build strength, right?

I got lucky with the weather this morning. A cold front moved through the state overnight with early morning showers, but it was all cleared up by the time I left for work. Roads were still very wet but my fenders handled that just fine. Today was my 5th consecutive day of bike commuting and 7th day of riding, and my legs are feeling it. A stiff wind this morning didn't help. However, I will get a much-needed rest day tomorrow because I'll need my car at work.

WINDY and cool
 

Strong winds from the north and west. When I headed in that direction, I felt it but wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Hope the ride home is the same. If the winds hold it could be a fast ride home.

I was a little warm but wanted to make sure I was prepared for some wind chill.
[MENTION=175755]Phil_gretz[/MENTION] glad you saw and were aware of her actions even if she wasn't.. Glad you could evade.

Really wet this morning. Feet haven't dried out yet. Otherwise an uneventful ride.

3 degrees this morning. Yay spring. :p

Winter's back, 19F

45F, sunny, clammy. While I did catch the biblical downpour for the ride home last night, I did get in just before the hail. And the frogs. So that was good.

Rainy and upper 40s this morning. My shoes and pants got soaked, but everything in my bag stayed dry, so at least I didn't sit at my desk with wet clothes all day! The ride was fun, and traffic was pretty good. I had only one vaguely harrowing moment on a hill where I got going pretty fast and someone turned in front of me. For a second, I thought I was going to get plastered on their rear window.

Too bad my riding clothes didn't dry. My ride home was mid 30s, real feel 20s in damp clothes. The head wind was awful. Tomorrow will be better. It should be chilly, but dry. I can handle one or the other, but not both!

Colder, just below freezing but no wind at all.

Ditto. I was glad the wind had stopped.

I had managed to get away without the long tights this week until today's 30F.

I drove today because my wife asked me to be home early because she is getting her hair cut. I don't understand it :innocent: I think I am going to ride tomorrow. They are calling or snow. looks like a good chance to test my waterproof gloves

Rode the studded tire winter bike today. Could have gotten away with the regular tire hybrid as only the last 1/2 mile of my 8 mile commute had any ice. Most of the pavement was bone dry and clear.

Which was kind of weird. On my ride home last night there was plenty of ice on the roads and trails. The temp hasn't been above 30F for several days so I fully expected that same ice to be waiting this morning. Not sure where it all went.

Is that your helmet?! At 31F it was much warmer than yesterday, but we had snow last night. Most of my path was clear and didn't ride the studs

Really cold again! But a nice ride, the moon and the row of planets still shining bright in a clear sky. No animals got in my way.

Unfortunately, my train broke down. We were cruising along at top speed, and suddenly everything became quiet and over the next mile or two the train slowly coasted to a stop. Emergency lights on, all else dark, and the only sound was the heat system cooling. After fifteen minutes they got us started again, but that only lasted a short while, and then we sat on the tracks for an hour while they got another train to pull up next to us. By that time it had got really cold on our train, and I was dressed for riding, not for sitting around in the cold. Brrr. Finally, everyone on the stalled train had to climb down the stairs to the space between the trains, and then up into the second one. They specifically told us, for safety reasons, not to touch both trains at the same time :eek: NJTransit ftw!

Could not get out of the house in time, drove. Hated it.

This morning on my way to work I crashed...
I have a steep downhill and usually I ride on the sidewalk because the high speed of the cars (about 70-80 kph) is frightening me and the sidewalk is not crowded at all. So...this morning an elderly person came against me ,I was convinced he saw me and walked on the other side of the sidewalk but when I was very close to him he just turned into my route... I just rubbed his shoulder (he didn't hurt at all) but after it I crashed. I think my speed was about 20 kph (about 12 mph). I didn't wounded seriously ,just some scratches on the knees and torn pants.
I'm totally take the responsibility on me I shouldn't ride on the sidewalk but it's the safer way in this place.
Anyway I think from now and on I will try to avoid this road although it's the quickest way for me.
Sorry about my english... have a nice day !

bells are handy for that sort of thing, even if, around here, most pedestrians have earphones blocking out external signals...

It probably would be worth it to find an alternate route, for your safety.

I didn't ride today, shame on me. It was 23F, with a wind chill of 12 this morning. And tomorrow will be the same. Im holding out for Monday. Its going to 50!

[MENTION=322871]arsprod[/MENTION] that is my head haha not my helmet.

Sounds like an adventure. Reminds me of a time I got stuck on the BART train. It happened midway through the tunnel under the SF bay between SF and Oakland. Very dark down there except for a few dim emergency lights. This was rush hour so it was a very crowded train. After about 20 minutes people started getting restless and a pregnant woman in the next car started freaking out. Eventually, after about 45 minutes, the train started to move again. When the train finally got out of the tunnel, it stopped at the next station, and the train operator told everyone to get off the train and wait at the platform for the next train. Of course, the next train was packed since it was rush hour. Yet all the people who had spent 45 minutes stuck in a dark train, and then forced to disembark, felt entitled to get back on the next train, no matter how crowded it was rather than get stranded on the platform. It got a little ugly, with a lot of pushing and pulling and yelling as the doors closed.

My commute was great! Cars stopped for me and sometimes waved me across at stop signs. I think one guy might have been trying to intimidate me with his car, but if so, he wasn't trying very hard. :)

Were you in the SF area when the Bay Bridge was shut down because of possible defective cabling? I actually got pushed off of a BART train. I took the ferry back to Oakland that day. I'm glad I no longer work in SF.

Crashed on the way home tonight. Was coming down a big hill about 22 mph and went to make a left turn onto the MUP trailhead and took it way too aggressive. Was riding the studded tires but the pavement was dry, and the metal studs had absolutely no bite. The bike slid out from me just like non-studded tires would on ice.

I hit the ground and slid to a stop, then immediately thought of the three or four cars coming my way. I hopped up right away, grabbed my bike and drug it off the road. Cracked one of the gear shift indicators, knocked the rear wheel out of alignment and added some new scratches and scrapes to the bike. Thankfully this was my old winter beater so the new damage didn't really bother me much.

A driver of one of the oncoming cars stopped to make sure I was OK. I gave him a wave of thanks to let him know I was fine. I landed on my left side, so it took the brunt of the impact. I skinned my left knee and have some bruises up and down my body.

After I rested for a minute I rode 7 more miles to my son's school for parent teacher conferences. I'm getting a little more sore as the evening passes, but I'll live. I think my pride took the most damage.

Now that the ice is mostly gone I'm definitely going to ride my hybrid tomorrow and leave the studded tires at home.

Nice ride in with what I hope is the last snow of 2016. Just at freezing.

I feel lucky to have ridden this morning without any train or crash incidents. There seems to be a rash of them in the past 24 hours.

It was cool again this morning, but above freezing.

The ride into work was decent itself, 32 F and cloudy, but it would have been better if i wasn't nearly clipped by an inattentive driver. But as they say, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

Ya'll be careful out there! Too many crashes.

I had my first 4-commute week since early January as I got very lucky with the weather. Two cold fronts came through the state during the week, bringing lots of rain, but all of the storms took place overnight and were finished raining by the time I left for work in the mornings. I might have ridden 5 days except I had an out-of-town meeting Thursday that required me to drive. On the down side, the winds have been very punishing for the second week in a row, which is to be expected this time of year.

Didn't ride again today. The weather wasn't too cold, but the forecast called for high winds and snow this afternoon, so I chickened out lol

At the bus station downtown, I did see this bike. It's been sitting for months, and it makes me sad. I'm a little tempted to ask the transit folks if I could take it. Its a Miyata 710. There's also a Trek 930 thats been sitting for a weeks.

http://i.imgur.com/uksHJ8R.jpg

It's starting to become awesome, for commuting weather. Yesterday wasn't that great, raining and low 30's, but since then it's warming, with the sun shining and looks to be increasingly so through next week at least. I haven't missed a day from the weather in recent memory, but I sure do like it when it turns nice.


One thing to be aware of, for those in their first or second year of commuting, when the days first turn nice like this it draws a mass of people out - on foot, bikes, skates - and most of them act like they've never been on a path before. Or a sidewalk or bike lane for that matter. So be ready; it's the time of year when we have the most danger from other users on the Greenways and paths.