Dang, y'all and that climbing I'll take my no more than 88 feet worth of elevation on my daily commute over that. Some days, I'm thankful to be a flatlander.

I just use a long sleeve baselayer under a short sleeve jersey. Then just leave the baselayer in your bag on the way home. For gloves, I can go open finger or full finger. I've used either one up to 90's F. So no big deal if the full finger are the thin ones for 50's F temps. One nice thing about the full finger is that I can wipe my front and rear tire after I run over stuff (rocks, glass, etc) and not get my hand dirty.

Edit: Don't laugh but I previously used Firm Grip gloves that my wife bought for me from the hardware store for yardwork. Tough to beat at $10 a pair at the hardware store! :D

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Good on you for signing up for that ride. The graph here:

Hillier than Thou Course - 101.6 mi mapped course on MapMyRide

makes it look like its a lot of short and fairly steep stuff. The course profile looks like what my heart rate would be during the event. :) Do you know how much total climbing for the day?

Edit: Am thinking that I'd prolly be whacked using my 39x27 and would have to throw on the compact crank to get the bailout gears.

Dentist today, incompatible with kid daycare delivery by bike. Tomorrow is an MTB commute, and my new MTB is slated for delivery today, so it's st least possible I'll be riding it tomorrow. Thanks to online forums I have a list of worry beads... frame pivot grease and pivot pin fit, NDS rear hub locknut, facing shavings in headset and BB

Do you have an Errol Flynn / Cary Elwes cycling outfit? Be honest.

No, but that would be a good idea for my group's costume ride coming up in a month or so. :D

The 100 mile route has 12,000 ft of climbing, and the 100km route has 7,000 ft. I'm a fool, but I'm not a supreme fool, so I'm doing the 100km route. Still not sure how I'll do.

My butt has recovered very well since yesterday's ride. It was hurting. I think all the miles I've been putting in, on hills and on flat ground, have helped.

Great commute this morning... great weather, minimal traffic, and i had slept well. Generally, the commuter pace was a bit faster than usual, so i got to work a bit early.

A very nice uneventful commute this am with the temp at 53f degrees and clear dark skies.

I took the bail out option last night. My wife was already 5 miles up the road dropping a child at dance practice. Plus the rain was steady and the winds gusting enough that I didn't feel like fighting it.

This morning I made up for it wetness wise.
Drizzle - light rain - drizzle - light rain.
But the winds were pretty light.

I think the worst of Irma's remnants are mostly past here now. South Charlotte had some trees down and power outages, but I only saw small branches and leaves blown off on my commute (well north of town).

So for the ride home last night, 70°F range and heavily overcast. I really need to get a new headlight for the bike - it just has not been in the budget the last few weeks.

As for this morning, as the remnants of Irma head into the Ohio river valley I'm looking at rain for today, tomorrow, and Thursday. It was wet and I rode slow:

I guess it rained last night. Lots of puddles to dodge. Cool, cloudy, and calm.

Wow. 7,000 ft of climbing. Respect! :thumb: What gearing are you going to use? The secret to climbing appears to be to spin like Chris Froome. Of course nobody mentions that he also has 7.5 watts per kilo. One little difference...

Edit: One guy in this thread below says he did it with 36x29 for the low. Compact crank FTW!

http://forums.roadbikereview.com/new...ou-327035.html

A cool 55F - warmer than yesterday and I ditched the tights (and I'm putting together a Cary Elwes ensemble, great suggestion [MENTION=326413]darth[/MENTION]_Lefty!). Hard to imagine but we're expecting remnants of Irma starting this afternoon so windy and rain this far inland and north

Sup guys, been awhile since I've been on BF. Just been so busy lately. Saw the total eclipse in Clarksville TN, dealing with huge rains from hurricane remnants, etc. Got in a couple good rides around Nashville with my son on that weekend of the eclipse.

My last commute to work was last Thursday. I should have ridden Friday but woke up late. And today we have tons of rain from Irma moving through. Last Thursday was the first really "chilly" morning of the season at around 51°F. I wore my wind breaker and thin tights over my bib shorts. Had a good ride, just slow from all the wind.

First commute today on my new creamsicle MTB. A modern MTB is a lot different than anything you may be familiar with if you haven't had one in a while! It's a freaking monster truck and it's not even the plus tire version. I like it a lot, a big uptick in confidence from my old hardtail. Photos after work

I had a really nice ride in today. The weather is nearly perfect as it often is here in September and October. I think they are our months of least rain.

My headwind was fairly strong but not as strong as it sometimes get. I passed a woman on a single speed bike with upright bars. She caught up with me to ask me about my jersey. She said she loved it. It's a wool jersey I got from oregoncyclewear.com. The woman was about my age. (I'm 56.) She could contend with the headwind just as well as I could, on upright handlebars. She had a European accent, so maybe she's from the Netherlands or Denmark where they ride every day from the age of four. I remarked how the headwind makes riding hard, and she said, ah, this is nothing.

Later, as I was climbing a hill, a cyclist standing on the sidewalk near his bike cheered me on, come on, you can do it!

[MENTION=25132]ptempel[/MENTION], I have a thread about my Hillier Than Thou ride, so we can discuss it there rather than here.

I would love to tell you I had another amazing MTB romp on my way home but my bum ticker wasn't feeling so great and I went straight home slowly.

In the interest of saving taxpayer money, they've gone to chip-seal in the city. In the last week, over half my 4 - mile commute is nice fresh chip-seal. It's a horrid surface. Fortunately I put 42mm tires on my commuter a while back, so it's almost tolerable.

This mornings commute was a nice uneventful ride. The temp was 53 f degrees when I left the house. I forgot my phone but realized less than 1/4 mile from leaving the house so I went back home to get it.

Apparently I'm moody today.. think I got that out my system in 7.2 miles though. Fixed the squeaky seat then the spokes were clicking way more than I thought. Jacked with it Monday 2-3 times but still clicked and continued Tuesday. Absolutely nothing this morning though guess it needed to settle. But now my derailleur is making quite a racket.. lol guess I need to put the seat back on.

Besides that went another route which apparently has a bus stop. Well the bus was way too close passing me in the first place, typical of a first student bus. I guess the hood rats doesn't think it's cool to stand at the bus stop so after couple minutes watching them meandering across the street I said f-it and went anyways. Give me a ticket could care less. Second issue.. construction equipment in the bike lane ...again. Stopped and took a pic of it, they didn't like that much. I thought about moving the cones to the center of the street just to see what happens! Third issue.. darn bums in my way of the machines at the park. Going to have to call on them again.

I thought issue's only goes in 3 but I'm up to 4-5 for the day.. screw it may go home and drink some beer!

Bonus mileage! I've done similar, or realized I needed to lube my chain and turned around.

Nice cool commute at 56F with some foggy areas. A good 16 mile ride. I kept hoping for a good place to get a sunrise photo, but nothing came up. So how about a picture of a flower I saw on a walk at lunch yesterday. It had stopped raining just before I went.
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Another nice cool commute in 53F weather.

VFM FTW!
Btw, what material is your base layer? Today I wore a full sleeve compression top under my jersey and that did nothing.

Nice one.
On my way to work, I passed a spot of open field with mist hanging on top of the grass, and rays from the rising sun falling on trees sporting fall colors just behind the open field. It's time to start packing my camera as well now.

Dry ride home last night with temps in the 70's F
This morning, rain and temps in the low 60's F

Rain, wet, cool but not cool enough that I didn't sweat in rain gear. I gotta get a new rain jacket!

Someone who writes a fitness blog called me yesterday to interview me about commuting. She kept asking questions like "how do you fit it (exercise) into your day?" to which I kept answering, "I ride to and from work?!" She finally said "every day?" Yes, every day. "Even when it's cold?" Doesn't every day mean every day? I'll be anxious to see what she really writes

When I can tag along on the school commute, it's always the best part of my day.

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I've had better commutes. Fell for the first time in 10 years. I know better....it was raining, going ~18mph, and strayed onto the painted line on the right while going dead straight. Must have tried a small unconscious correction to get away from the edge of the road...HEARD a sliding sound first. Looked down...and sure enough, I'm on the painted line, bike is already starting to fishtail. Tried to countersteer...but by this time the bike is turned and leaned nearly 45 degrees, so I'm resigned to going down. Went in slow motion...tires I think were biting just hard enough the whole way to slow my fall slightly. Went down on left upper thigh...slid maybe 15 feet, and the bike another 20 ft down the street.

All things considered...not too bad. Back and thigh are sore, but other than that no biggie. Brifter got knocked sideways, and bar tape on the left slightly torn...easy enough fixes. Guess this is about the best way to go down on a bike on pavement lol :(

Edit: Slightly worried about my lower back :( It's getting awfully sore. Wondering if maybe shearing force popped something out of alignment...

Ah, I missed your thread. Will check it out.

Today was a nice ride from home. Did the longer ride since the weather is really nice and cooperating. Will probably be the only ride this week from home but I'll take it. Maybe if Friday has a low chance or rain, then will try it then as well. Fridays seem to be the best traffic days for me.

Excellent. I haven't been able to do that for a while (grades 7 &11 this year). I rode w/ my 7th grader to her id photo-schedule-getting day before the year started, but continued on to work from there and she went home when she was done catching up w/ friends she hadn't seen over the summer.

Today appears to be the beginning of fall. 45F, partly cloudy. Went for long sleeves.