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That looks very similar to this.. I do need another jersey.
Originally Posted by jrickards
(Post 18707844)
I was thinking that your reflective stripes would be more like:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=517171 Elevengear Cycling |
Quite a headwind yesterday on the way home. I just went slow.
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Broke 50 miles this week for the first time in decades. Rode Tuesday and Thursday 13 miles each way for a total of 52 miles. I can feel the effects but I don't think anything is irreparably damaged.
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Another nice uneventful commute to work today with the temp at 58f degrees. Gotta love the difference between yesterday's 34 f degrees and today's 58f degrees.
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Over dressed this morning. When it's hovering around 50 depending on the wind can feel like 40 or 60! I'll be surprised if I ride home. Had a flat yesterday and the main cause was staple but also found a metal shrad and glass working their way in. Alot of glass this morning. Time for some liners but not sure if that'll even help!
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Wimped out on the rain this morning. I normally leave at 7, and it started lightly raining at about 6:40. By 7 it was coming down pretty good so I woke my wife up. I put my bike in the car with hopes to ride home this evening. It wouldn't have been horrible, but I would have been pretty soaked had I ridden. My biggest problem is not really having a place to put soaked clothes.
And now at 8am it has pretty much stopped outside. So it basically rained for the one hour that I would have been out there. Whatever - IT'S FRIDAY! |
Originally Posted by mgw4jc
(Post 18709617)
Wimped out on the rain this morning. I normally leave at 7, and it started lightly raining at about 6:40. By 7 it was coming down pretty good so I woke my wife up. I put my bike in the car with hopes to ride home this evening. It wouldn't have been horrible, but I would have been pretty soaked had I ridden. My biggest problem is not really having a place to put soaked clothes.
And now at 8am it has pretty much stopped outside. So it basically rained for the one hour that I would have been out there. Whatever - IT'S FRIDAY! Because I too have issues with wet clothes at work, my rule is not to ride if it's raining at the house. However, since a little rain never killed anyone and since I can at least hang my wet stuff out in the shop if needed, I will ride if it looks threatening or if the weather radar and other reports show rain is coming. As long as I do not hear rain actually falling on our roof while I am getting ready, I'll ride. Sometimes this works really well. Sometimes not. Today it worked out well. All indications were that rain is coming. I could smell it when I walked my dogs, the radar showed a big mass of rain about an hour South of us, and the little indicator on my phone said, "Rain to begin in 78 minutes." All of the forecasting was very negative. The reality though was that no rain was falling. So, I rode. And, it was a good call. No actual rain fell during my ride, just a few sprinkles. Perfect! |
Our forecast was rain now, and heavier rain all day. It's really a mental thing, and I avoid all that by simply not making a decision. Rain jacket, shoe covers, plastic bags and go, I don't think about the car. This morning was like that but it turned out to be pretty pleasant.
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calling for rain but i rode anyway I think i am addicted
Today is the 5th day this week I have ridden and I just got to work before the rain started. The roads were wet so it must have rained as I was riding in but just a few drops started to fall. #notTOObad I hope that this evening works out to be the same. I have ridden a metric century in the rain so what is 11 miles... as long as I am not dealing with a thunderstorm. right? :D
plus today is Friday! Tonight is pizza and movie night with the family. :thumb: It is all good. I have 150 miles so far this week! I can't do it every week, wife asked me, not to but that has been some serious mileage for the week. |
Nice easy ride in today. Rain schmain. No problem getting a little wet. Am a little tired with semi crappy sleep the last two nights. Will recover on the weekend. Heard that it might go as high as 80F this afternoon but with chance of showers.
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Cool and breezy this morning, and I'm a bit sore after a tough game of floor hockey last night, so I was slow. I instinctively grabbed my fixie, but between the wind and fatigue, I soon wished I had taken a geared bike instead.
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Fantastic commute. I wrote about it on my ride blog here.
Bike commuting update, April 2016 I often say I ride to work and back two days a week and take the subway three days a week, but I probably really average riding fewer than two days a week. I hope to increase the average, maybe to three, maybe more. Today, I reached my short term goal, though I've done four rides between work and home over the course of three days. Monday, I rode home on the bike I had left at work last week, my Bianchi Volpe. Wednesday, I rode to work on my Viscount fixed gear bike and rode home on my Raleigh Super Course which had been sitting in my office for months. I left the Viscount at the office because I like to keep a spare bike there. So on four rides, I rode four separate bikes. This morning (Friday), I rode my Lemond, which I hadn't ridden in months. I've been thinking I ought to sell this bike because I don't ride it often and it's a bit too small for me. This morning's ride changed that thinking. I had a lot of fun and not a whole lot of discomfort. I like to think that the weight of a bike isn't a big factor in the speed at which you travel, but this bike proves that to be wrong. Besides being more energy efficient, some bikes position me in such a way that encourages me to pedal harder. I made it to work in record time, less than an hour. The distance was 13.8 miles, and my average speed was 15.6, which is much higher than normal for me. It helped that there is virtually no wind today. I normally face a stiff headwind in the morning. The wind was so light that I thought I had a tail wind, but actually, there really isn't any wind, which is pretty unusual for the Hudson River. If you want to see the path I took and an excess of statistics my smartphone app took, see them here. Anyway, I had a blast. Here are pictures I shot along the way. You can click on them for the full size images. https://ridewithgps.com/photos/large/1559131.jpg https://ridewithgps.com/photos/large/1559130.jpg |
Overcast and headwindy this morning. I don't usually mind headwinds, but I had been hoping to use today for low-intensity riding and that wasn't going to happen without taking twice as long to get anywhere. Plus, I didn't have anything in the tank so it felt that much harder. Whine-whine-whine... ;)
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I slept through my alarm! Or, more likely, I turned it off without quite waking up. I know lots of people do this, but it's only like the second time I've done it. I woke up 20 minutes later and realized, if I'm quick about things, I can still catch my train. Out the door in seven minutes, rode like I was doing interval training. I caught the train, but oh, man! was I drenched.
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My commuter (road bike) drivetrain has been making an intermittent crunching noise, no doubt due to being worn out and abused all winter.
The other day I took my steel beater MTB. Less than ½ way home and I ride over something sharp and hear the hissssssssss of air escaping. I unclip and coast but don’t stop—hey, every yard I can coast is a bit less walking! (My patch kit etc are on a saddlebag on the road bike at home.) The tire gets soft (~35psi) and the hissing stops. I limp it home, rip it off and discover it’s a slime-filled tube that had healed itself. The funny thing is, I don’t EVER recall buying a slime tube. There's a hole in the tire the size of a pencil. Anyways, I need to spend some quality time on maintenance. Weather has been amazing for riding. |
Set up my new bike with lights and bag for my first commute in a while. Doc told me to stop until an ortho eval. He told me to get back out riding. A cool 37f when I left the house with temps expected to rise in the upper 40's today. Forgot my phone at work last night so I had to add my mileage manually to Strava.
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Had my first commute of the year today. Also got to ride my new bike, a 2015 BMC GF02 Disc. The bike is a joy to ride. Much different than my 8.5 DS, in the best ways possible. Ride was 15.8 miles and I did it in 1:22:23 of moving time. Not bad for not riding any bike since October. Can't wait to make this my 5 day a week workout!
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This morning I rode to a dentist appointment. From there I rode to our company's office across town. At lunch I rode 8 miles back across town to a client's office, stopping on the way to run a couple of errands.
It's 55 degrees, sunny and best of all only a 4 mph wind (very rare in South Dakota.) It's simply a glorious day. I was kind of bummed when I reached the client that I had to go spend the afternoon inside. |
Once again asked a driver to please stop texting, put away the phone, and pay full attention to driving.
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Originally Posted by rhm
(Post 18710175)
I slept through my alarm! Or, more likely, I turned it off without quite waking up. I know lots of people do this, but it's only like the second time I've done it. I woke up 20 minutes later and realized, if I'm quick about things, I can still catch my train. Out the door in seven minutes, rode like I was doing interval training. I caught the train, but oh, man! was I drenched.
This morning, though, I got up on time. I left the car at work yesterday and rode home, with a little tail wind which helped. This morning I felt slow and lethargic, but I still made it. |
Originally Posted by PatrickGSR94
(Post 18710880)
ughhh I do that wayy too often - missed and failed a college course final exam one time because of it, one that I would have aced. Just this past Tuesday morning I woke up at 6 instead of 5, despite 2 alarms at 4:55 and again at 5.
This morning, though, I got up on time. I left the car at work yesterday and rode home, with a little tail wind which helped. This morning I felt slow and lethargic, but I still made it. First thing I do, typically, is stretch my legs and back while I feed the dogs and brew a pot of coffee. Then I spend a few minutes reading and drinking a cup or two of the fresh coffee, half of each cup filled with cold water. By 5:40, I am in the shower. By 5:50, I'm out walking the dogs which serves as a nice warm-up and gives me a chance to gauge temperature. Before, I know it, it's 6:15 and time to ride. Add in a few minutes to clean the chain or add air, and I am off. |
The commute in was nice with the temp at 43f degrees when I left the house. My odometer fell off going up a hill, since I was lucky enough to hear it I stopped and picked it up. I am not a fan of stopping on hills.
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Beautiful morning for a bike ride! I made good time, felt strong, pushing it a little more than I have been so far this year, and really appreciated the opportunity to start my week this way.
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[MENTION=297321]essiemyra[/MENTION], The stopping part is okay, it's the restarting that hurts so much. :)
Glad you didn't lose your odometer. Nice morning for a ride. 48/50F felt very nice. It was warming as I went and on one stretch of road I was thinking how nice it would be if I could just keep going for an extra couple of hours like this. Happy Monday all! |
Nice ride and blog [MENTION=152773]noglider[/MENTION]
Today's ride in was?? Yes, you guessed it, still in subfreezing temperatures, -3C/27F. I guess the nice morning temperatures 2 weeks ago was an aberration and it looks like morning rides will be in subfreezing temps for most of the next 2 weeks too (into May!!??!!??). However, at least it has been clear and sunny and dry for most of the mornings so far. Finally, the city is sweeping the sand and dirt from the sides of the roads giving us cyclists the ability to move further away from traffic (but of course, traffic is going to nudge up to us anyway). Our local cycling advocacy group, Sudbury Cyclists Union, is organizing an activity where we measure the width of the sand/dirt that is left on the road from the winter (and cars have had no problem dealing with the narrowed lanes) and then approaching the city for painted bike-lane lines on some of the roads. We now have an Active Transportation Coordinator position with the City and that person should be able to help us improve cycling infrastructure in the city. |
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