Dang [MENTION=468175]Skipjacks[/MENTION] and [MENTION=175954]Tundra_Man[/MENTION], couple of irritating encounters there.

I just came back to say I forgot to mention that I rode past a Verizon store this morning. There were about 6 or 7 people waiting for it to open. At first I wondered if that was normal, and then I figured it must be the iPhone 8 release day. I wonder if they'll all be back in a month for the iPhone 10?

This morning was uneventful, pleasant 72. At 2p it's already in the 90's... Happy Fall!

With that $1000 price tag?

I'm thinking 'no'.

Also I can' fathom why a company would release a product they intend to replace in 60 days, nor why anyone would buy the phone that's going to get replaced in 60 days and as such will have a SIGNIFICANT price drop in 61 days.

The commute home was much safer but MUCH weirder!

At a stop light a guy pulls up next to me and tries to have a conversation about how brave I am for riding on a road. I'm thinking "Yeah..its super dangerous. Can I concentrate on the traffic now instead of explaining this process to you?" He was nice, but its like "Really dude? You are insinuating that this isn't safe but feel like distracting me is okay?"

Then later on the way home some guy starts SCREAMING at me from a parking lot. Waiving his fist and everything yelling "Our endurance has ended!!!" At least that's what I think he was screaming. That one left me baffled. I didn't even slow down for that one. I'd had my fill of strange stuff today by that point.

Maybe it's the equinox bringing out the crazies.

Friday as I drove to my car/bike swap point it was raining, but the radar promised that it would be dry; it was, so I had a dry ride. Still wore my heavy rain coat, so was a slower ride.

For the PM commute, it was raining a bit as I walked from the office to the warehouse (where I stash my bike), but in 10 minutes it stopped, and the ride back to the car was dry-ish.

Overall, a win, under the circumstances, as I skipped 2 days because of the threat of heavy rain.

Also have tripled last year's total bike mileage (rookie year for commuting), total is over 1300 miles (commute+other) so far. A pittance compared to some, but I am really pleased.

A very pleasant uneventful commute in as the temp was 65 f degrees with dark clear skies.

Damn British weather

:mad:

Decent Monday ride. I left an hour early and stopped at the gym for a bit. The owner there was back after having gone to the Bahamas for a vacation and getting slammed by Hurricane Irma. She was stuck there and couldn't leave for a while.

A warm, dry week here until Friday they say, then a bit of a cool down but still nice for the weekend.

No near crashes or other death causing incidents today! Big improvement from Friday!

Though suddenly in late September it's hotter and muggier in the morning than it's been in July. Go figure.

54 F this morning. After the lows being in the mid 70s to 80s felt chilly. :)

53 degrees this morning, moderate headwind and rain. Took the hybrid with fenders and packed my work clothes in my waterproof pannier. All in all, it was a pretty easy commute.

I know this isn't a weather forum but it's hard not to focus on it. 60F on the ride in - forecast is for 90 this afternoon. That's a 30 degree change in one day.

I changed a gear on my cluster and went the wrong way adding a bigger space in the sweet spot rather than smaller. Argh... and I have ride home with it now!

Are others experiencing unseasonably warm temperatures these last 10 days or so?

I went on a charity bike ride, Bike for United Way (Bike for United Way) from Sept 14-17 and the weather was quite warm for September, 22-27C/71-80F and sunny and rainless which was fortunate because the route was 4 Centuries in 4 days. However, now it has just become stupid, 4 days in a row of 30C+/87F+ of intense sun and humidity and although this morning's ride in at 17C/64F felt much better, the humidity was still high and this afternoon's ride home will be in the heat and humidity again. I hear the Toronto, 4hrs drive south of me, is going to suffer worse. However, the forecast is that today is the last day of this and over the next 3-4 days, seasonal temperatures will be with us again.

Anyway, it was a relaxed commute in today although I was starving on the bike (don't normally feel that way, even though I rarely have breakfast before the commute) so I bought a dozen donuts/muffins (but I shared them with my co-workers at our Monday Morning Huddle, I had the Pumpkin Spice muffin that I was looking for, the rest are now gone).

Have a great day and keep cool!!

I'm actually thinking of downgrading my phone (I guess that would mean buying a second, unlocked phone to keep my family's data plan going) to just a plain phone like a flip phone. I like my smart phone for many reasons but I want to try to get away from the temptation of looking at it so much.

54F, overcast, sprinkling. Opted for long sleeve shirt and no coat. And, shoes/socks instead of sandals.

[MENTION=468175]Skipjacks[/MENTION], those are some stories! Deep breaths! I'm glad today is better.

This morning, I felt awfully sore after yesterday's murderous ride, so I rode the subway. On the ride, I started to feel much, much better, and once again, I regret not riding to work. Well, it's good that I feel better. I have been eating since the ride ended yesterday, taking breaks only in the bathroom and in bed. I have been eating since I got up this morning and haven't stopped at my desk all day.

yes. chicago is currently experiencing an unprecedented heat wave.

we've now had 6 days in a row of all-time heat records being broken.

never before in recorded history has chicago had this much heat this late in the summer season.

tomorrow might be another record-breaker too; that'd make it a full week's worth of record setting heat.

I haven't checked to see if any of these recent days have had record-breaking temperatures but they certainly are hot.

Wow, what a stressful Friday everyone had!

iphone 6 still going strong. Every time I've bought a best-new-phone it's lasted beyond contract up until destruction or loss, whereas cheaper ones are lucky to eke out the two years without becoming clunkers

I buy my phones contract-less and SIM-less.

Bought a 1+1 from OnePlus in 2014 and still-running it on a £15/mo global usage plan from 3, runs all of the newest software and no reason to upgrade. Was £249 when I picked it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus

I still don't have my new MTB back together. I traded rims with a guy in So Cal in order that we both have a matching set (some Diamondbacks come with one black and one color rim). My first go at tensioning the wheel was totally unsatisfactory so I let it all loose and wound it up again with more care. The rim is fine now but the tubeless setup is evading me. I fought with it for an hour and got three of the four beads set but the last one just won't go. I think I'll have to re-tape the rim. I figured I was being a bad neighbor running my dinky compressor over and over at midnight., and I called it off. So no MTB ride for me tomorrow.

I came inside so frustrated I could barely think so I sat down with a snack to level out. It's helping.

But now I'm listening to the boy twin coughing on the baby monitor. It seems like he's had some kind of cold or congestion for his entire 8mos of life. He doesn't wake up or cry any more about it, just coughs into his mattress, which lets us sleep but breaks my heart. He's such a happy goof when he's awake, he lights up when he sees me, grabs my nose and giggles, likes being tossed around, eats like a horse - and coughs and wheezes. The doctor seems to think it's just a combination of his undeveloped windpipe and his sheer size... he was tested for hydrocephalus around 3mo because his head is so big, and he's now in 12mo clothes. The sister is very serious and 2/3 his size.

Don't know if I'll sleep but will definitely ride today. The road bike, meh.

As I finish writing this, seems like he's settled down.

PITA commute home last night!

Rear tire was low... pumped it up before leaving the station. Then a hundred yards later my cog popped off my three speed hub (doh!). Had to take the wheel off to get it back on. A mile or two later, my tire was flat (yes, flat; not just low). I pumped up and rode away but didn't get far. Tube was not holding air at all now. Went for the tool kit... and no tool kit. wtf! I guess I moved it to another bike and not having had any maintenance issues on this bike since December, I forgot all about it. I had to call my wife to come pick me up, which was a first in fifteen years of bike commuting.

When I got to fixing the flat, I found the cause was right at the edge of a patch I'd done in December, so I'd call it a failed patch... but it took a good long time for the patch to fail.

I also found a broken spoke, which I fixed.

And this morning, the cog popped off the driver again. That's really not supposed to happen, and it's surprising that it's happening now, after I've had this hub in use for several years. I removed a spacer so the circlip fits the driver better, so now the cog is a little loose on the driver, but the circlip is seated where it's supposed to be.

I don't mind seeing the weather posts from different parts of the country and/or world. Yours especially interests me because it is usually what I'm going to see about 24 hours later.

Yep, we have a forecast high of 89 for two days this week. Definitely high for late Sept. But Saturday's high should only be 71, so getting back to fall temps.

I saw two deer run off as I rounded a bend this morning. Later on I noticed traffic on one highway I cross was backed up more than normal. This usually means the interstate that runs parallel is backed up too. A couple of employees were late to work because of the mess.

In my smallish city of 90,000 (regional population is 160,000), it is not common to see fancy cars: there's a Ferrari in town and an a Austin Martin as well but a fair number of Porsches. However, last night, on the commute home, I was passed by a Bentley, it was pretty nice.

Warm (28C/82F) commute home but it felt drier, not so humid. I decided to go for a longer commute into work this morning, stretch my legs a bit after the 400km (over 4 days) charity ride I did 10 or so days ago so I went for a 46.1km/28.6mi loop that ended at work and I was able to complete it at an average rate of 27.4kmh/17.0mph which I think is the fastest I've ridden this route to date: yay, my legs are still good! I knew that I was going to start in the dark, at 6:10am but I had hoped that the sky would be brighter by 6:30 but I wasn't comfortable turning my front light from beam to flashing until nearly 7am. As good as I feel about this ride, I have to ride on too many unlit streets and paved shoulder of the highway for too long to feel really comfortable so this loop will have to be done after work or on a weekend if I want to ride it again this year.

It was a comfortable 17C/63F ride in this morning but it, again, it going to be warm this afternoon with a forecasted 27C/81F temperature and a humidex of 34C/93F. However, it appears that tonight it will cool down to seasonal averages of daily highs in the high-teens (18C=64F) and overnight lows in the high single digits (9C=48F).

Have a great day everyone!

Easy ride this morning, only hard enough to warm up which took me just under 29 minutes. I can do it about 4 minutes faster if I try really hard, but it never seems worthwhile in the morning - that's what I like about this time of year. Those lazy morning rides.

Four of us from my company are leaving at 3 PM this afternoon for a three day conference in Des Moines. We're taking the company car and meeting at the office parking lot. It would have been really tempting to just drive to work today.

Instead, I packed up my panniers with everything I'll need for the trip and loaded up my bike. This morning I rode to a client's office (51 degrees with a moderate head wind, wet roads but no rain falling.) Later on I'll ride across town to the office, lock my bike to the rack and we'll load up the company car and head out of town. I'm just going to use my Ortlieb City Roller bags as my luggage for the trip. Late Friday night when we return to town I'll just pop my panniers onto the bike and ride home.

I figure that way I can keep my consecutive bicycle work commute streak going, which as of today is 377.

Thanks for that! So tomorrow you'll see the same as today and yesterday - hot! Had a guy on a scooter yell at me for not stopping long enough at a crossing. I just thought it was funny

Yeah we've had crazy ridiculous hot weather in Memphis for late September. It was around 90 degrees both days over the weekend. Upper 80's so far this week, but finally supposed to cool off tomorrow.

Pretty uneventful e-bike commute yesterday, and regular road bike commute this morning. Been feeling pretty good and strong on the road bike lately, although not any faster than usual. 12.8 MPH moving average this morning across 15 miles.

I don't mind the weather! It's warmer than normal, so I sweated a lot coming into work today, but it's fine. I wore my wool jersey, which is pretty fantastic in the way it handles sweat. No smell, either.

I took a day off the bike yesterday and rode in today. I felt extremely strong, probably from Sunday's big ride and also some vigorous dead lifts I did in the morning. It's a nice feeling.

ridewithgps keeps track of how I do on various so-called segments. I tried to reach my record for the steep hill climb, which is 40 seconds, but I did it in 50 seconds. I really don't see how I ever did it in 40 seconds. I wonder if it was a measurement error or something.

There was almost no wind today, and that helped, too. The wind map shows that I had a slight headwind, but the leaves on the tree were showing that I had a slight tail wind.

55F, overcast but no precip