Uneventful ride to work this morning. I think it was mid to high 70s. Humidity was down, and I could feel just a bit of coolness, although it will be 90F when I go home. Maybe I got too early of a head start, but I didn't encounter any other bike commuters, except for one ninja rider that pulled up next to me at a T-junction. He had no lights, no high-viz clothing, nothing at all to let his presence be known on the road.
My rear lights need their AAA batteries recharged; one pretty much died, and its two companions were beginning to go weak. At least the sun is still out when I ride home and I don't use them in the day.

rain the drizzling annoying to all glasses wearing riders kind of rain. about 70F though so I eventually took the rain coat off. It was so hard to ride off this morning in the dark, drizzling rain. about halfway up my street I almost turned around but by the time I got the end of the street I realized I was pretty much wet and pressed on. Glad I did it dried off took rain coat off and then I found more drizzle.


took a different route to work for a change of pace and it has less school busses. I left later than usually because I originally had my vest on but disliked the water on my arms went back for rain coat.


what are you going to do? glad it is Friday though.

[MENTION=134924]RidingMatthew[/MENTION] - All of the rain that's been dumping on us in Raleigh and ENC this week finally moved in your direction. Hopefully you need the rain as bad as we did. It's been very dry here since early July, after an extremely wet spring and early summer. We are still 7-8" above normal for the year, despite the dry spell.

I just remembered in Ireland they would have called it a soft morning

This week I been commuting on my Super Huffy MTB in preparation for the Ashtabula Covered Bridge ride I am hosting Sunday to make sure the bike is trouble free and so far I had no issues...
https://www.bikeforums.net/great-lake...9-25-16-a.html

Here is the thread on the build of my Bike........
https://www.bikeforums.net/mountain-b...-mtb-ever.html

It's my "Go To" bike and it's awesome!

[MENTION=86492]tarwheel[/MENTION] i am not sure if got enough to offset the dry spell. I feel like I have been very lucky to not have to commute in the rain this year very much but it took some mental fortitude to not turn around this morning. I seriously debated it. When you say above normal is that Raleigh or the state of NC?

Had a few of those around here.

The rainfall has been running well above normal in Raleigh and ENC, but I think it's been much drier toward the western part of the state.

The commute this morning was chilly 38f degrees. It seems I can not remember one year to the next what to wear for cold weather as my fingers were a cold halfway through the ride. I needed a warmer second layer glove. Other than that it was a nice ride in the dark with a 1/4 moon and stars.

Brrr.. still wore shorts and was ok but my hands and ears were freezing. Guess I'll try a few things tomorrow.

Woah! Cold. Long pants, long sleeve shirt, gloves, and a cap under my helmet. This is the first time I've come to work in long pants since April or maybe May.

I rode a 200k brevet yesterday, and it kinda knocked the stuffing out of me, which is not unusual. Sometimes when I ride a century on Sunday, I'm so slow on Monday that I miss my train. So today I made a point of leaving a little early. Nonetheless, when I got to the station, the train was already there, and I hustled... got to the platform just as the train was pulling out. Looked at my cell phone for the time... ooops. I was seven minutes early, and that was the local train I'd just missed. The express came in and left on time, with me in it.

Ha! That one took me a second. Love it.

Wet wet wet. I don't often have to start out in rain. I tried leaving a few minutes later than normal hoping it would clear out, but it didn't. It stopped about 2 miles from the office, which was nice so I could get a little wind drying out before getting there.

Heavy clouds this morning but cooler temperatures, lower humidity and no rain. I'll take that. Our weather is supposed to be very "unsettled" this week, with possible rain almost every day but at least it has cooled off. I am getting sick of hot, humid weather. Saturday, I rode 76 miles with some friends and it was my toughest ride of the year due to temperatures in the 90s and very high humidity. One of my friends called his wife to pick him up at about the 50-mile point as the heat was making him feel sick. I ended up cutting my ride about 5 miles short just to stop the misery.

48-degrees as I left the house this morning. Felt awesome!!! Especially after being off the bike all last week for a business trip.

Drove; too much work to do to have time to ride home in the afternoon to meet the older kid and take him to the dentist. Although I do hope to bike to the dentist with him.

Should have worn a warmer shirt, but otherwise, it was a pleasant commute.

62 degrees this morning - that's a little chilly for me. Took about 3 or 4 miles till I was warm and able to enjoy the ride. Finally got the saddle tightened down enough that it doesn't sink anymore while riding. Passed 2 other commuters; always glad to know others in my town are riding. No rain in the forecast this week, so I should be able to easily put in 100+ miles on the ebike by the end of Friday.

For some reason I woke up a little before 3 AM last night and never did go back to sleep. Had my alarm set for 5:30, but got out of bed at 4:50. I figured if I did manage to fall asleep in that last half hour I probably would feel worse than if I just stayed up.

So as a result I was running ahead of schedule this morning. Went out for a 5 mile run. It was about 45 degrees, humid and pretty windy which made things quite chilly.

Got back to the house and showered/dressed. Still had 25 minutes before I needed to leave for work, so I sat down in my chair. Sure enough, I fell asleep. Woke up 10 minutes past when I was supposed to leave the house. Hopped on the bike and rode to work, along with all the other drivers who had left late and now were in panic mode.

Rode straight into the wind. Hopefully it won't shift and I'll get a push on the way home.

was getting ready to ride to work this morning and heard rain... sure enough quick rain shower and looked at the radar and said I am going to continue getting ready and ride anyway. 63F spitting random rain drops here and there but not a bad ride.


kind of tapering down this week in preparation for my ride across NC Banner Elk to Atlantic beach next week.

Was not too bad. But I did the park and ride so dressed for 56F (city) as opposed to 48F (Bloomfield).

Congrats on the brevet. I never get more than 1h 30m to 1h 45m ride time in one session nowadays. So my endurance is probably crappy. Where in NJ are you? Central?

I catch the train at Hamilton, so... yeah, that's central NJ. You?

I'm north in Bloomfield (between Montclair and Newark). The Montclair-Boonton Line is my train. But I don't really use it much since starting the cyclecommute about three years ago. I see that Hamilton is on the Northeast Corridor Line. You get far better service than I do.

I left much later than [MENTION=73614]rhm[/MENTION], so by the time I got on the streets, the temperature was in the 60s. I wore shorts and a polo shirt.

My Raleigh International, my usual commuting bike, broke a spoke on Friday, so I rode my Bianchi Volpe for the first time in a long time. It doesn't fit me as well, though I'm not sure how. My foot cramped in the way it had been troubling me for years, and I worked that out on the Raleigh. I guess I should so some measurements.

Today was my first commute since June 16th when I was hit by a car on my way home from work.