Your ride was similar to mine - clear and 29. :thumb: Lots of frost on the grassy dikes along the Red River, but roads were dry and the air was crisp with a light wind at my back.

Actually, a very lovely morning ride for my 4.5 mile morning commute to the office.

Beautiful morning, if unseasonably warm and humid!

Followup to last week's cell phone mishap (details here); but for those who missed it and don't want to read all the details, my android cell phone fell out of my bag on my ride home last week, got run over by a car but miraculously didn't break): I dropped it on Saturday, it fell only two feet to the ground, hitting a glancing impact on the way down, and the screen cracked right in half. Now that the screen is broken, the whole phone is clearly bent in the middle. It still works... but a replacement is on the way.

Interesting, I saw a Bricklin (white) this weekend too. Had to take a couple of looks as I wasn't quite sure what I was seeing and then a couple of minutes afterwards, I remembered what it was.

I didn't know 66 degrees could feel hot, but with 95% humidity it apparently can!

I also tried an alternate route this morning to go around a large hill that I don't particularly care for. Life lesson....just because an alternate route looks flatter on Google Earth doesn't mean it is. The climb was twice as steep.

I got a great workout though!!!

There's actually a Bricklin for sale at a dealership here in my town: https://www.kelolandautomall.com/inv...rchId=19043495

Only about 2800 made and somewhere between 450-1500 known surviving.

44F, overcast, supposed to rain most of the rest of the week.

One of them in orange is in Midtown Memphis. The guy is a regular patron of one of my favorite restaurants in town, Cafe Eclectic. I've seen it parked outside there a number of times when I've visited.

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Another pleasant commute.

I have two bikes that I keep switching between for the commute. One is a mid 80s Bianchi Campione 10 speed and other is heavier Specialized Sirrus 27 speed.
On the heavier Sirrus, I hit higher max speed but lower VAM, probably due to its weight. On the Bianchi, its higher VAM but lower max speed. Both give the same average speed!
Just an observation.

Oh and recently, I had to change my phone mount. The older one used to rattle a lot. The new one keeps the phone steady. Turns out all those vertical vibrations were adding 100 feet to my rides :lol:

I have a good fifty miles into my new MTB so I started playing with the suspension settings. For starters I had set up the pressures per recommendation and put the rebound knobs right in the middle of their range. Today I added a little pressure to the rear and took all the rebound knobs out two clicks. This didn't seem to accomplish much on the fork but the rear felt a lot more active.

Saturday I met a guy who wanted to sell a "like new" tire via Craigslist and I passed on it. It was a premium tire but used up - the knobs were round. He cussed as he left, "I don't know what people expect for twenty bucks, @#$% eighty dollar tire..." If he paid eighty dollars for it, he's a fool, you can find it anywhere for sixty... and if he wants twenty dollars for it now when it's worthless...

This mornings ride was a pleasant uneventful ride with the temp at 55 f degrees.

I was watching Jeopardy last night and the contestant who has won(winning 332,400.00) for the last ten night is a bartender in New York City and a bike commuter who rides home at four or five am.

Mid 50s here as well. I left from home at 6. This is my earliest start since the days got shorter.
Mostly uneventful except at one point when a drop of sweat from my forehead landed on the RWGPS app's pause button. Had to stop and wipe the screen for the app to un-pause,

Thanks for reminding me - I watched Jeopardy too. He also said he has nick names for his bikes. Some he's used or considered: Alex Tribike and Spokey Robinson.

75F with 94% humidity and 73 degree dew point. Ugh. I'm ready for Augtober to be over and hoping it will be less humid in Septvember.

27F this morning and our first hard freeze. I can tell I don't yet have my winter skin, as in three months this weather will feel balmy.

Rain is predicted starting Friday through the weekend. All this moisture combined with the relatively late hard freeze is really not helping the farmers with harvest.

Weather's perfect here. Low 60s in the mornings, low 90s in the afternoon. Traffic is getting heavier on my commute home tho.

Uneventful commute this morning, other than much cooler than in recent days. We've been having lows around 70, high around 90, but a cold front last night dropped temps a good 20 degrees across the region. Today's high is in the low 70's, and it was in the low 50's this morning. Humidity should be MUCH lower today.

In other news, I finally replaced my Grand Prix 4 Seasons rear tire with 3,600+ miles on it. Somehow it was still holding 100psi despite missing some rubber in a few places.

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Cool (4C/39F) with quite a strong headwind (breeze) so I'm glad I bundled up (thick jersey over a light merino baselayer, Buff under my helmet to prevent my bald head from getting too cold and gloves but I was comfortable in cycling shorts and ankle wool socks). Beautiful fall colours on the trees and pink sky in the east (which may mean that the forecast of rain today may actually be correct).

I GoPro'd (is that a word? LOL) most of the ride that I'll put together as a video tonight, we'll see how it turns out. I'd like to add music (copyright free) but although I know that some people I follow on YouTube use SoundCloud for some of their music, I can't figure out how to find copyright free music there so it might just be without audio.

I got off to a late start so I had to go slow to make up for lost time. No sweat no shower, quick change and at my desk with 10 minutes to spare!

Interesting concept, going slow due to running late. There would probably be fewer crashes on the roads if motorists had the same line of thinking.

Especially when you consider that an hour or two lost from one fender bender will account for more than all of the 5 or 10 seconds, added up over the years, that they save by driving aggressively.

Although it's not foolproof, with these mild mornings I could save even more time - I figure a minute maybe - by biking even slower in casual clothes and skip the cleanup entirely. It's a balance between the need for speed and getting there on time. :lol:

To be honest, if I take my road bike and go all out on the direct street route, hit the lights green or at least in the gaps, I can do it in five minutes less including the shower. But that's highly dependent on the traffic so I seldom try it in a time crunch.

Got to ride home in the rain last night, spent the entire ride cursing myself for not breaking down and getting better rain gear than the emergency poncho I use.

This morning 70 degrees and damp. Roads were still wet from the rain yesterday and last night, and I discovered the I better not put off adjusting my rear brakes any longer. (I've been trying to hold out on the adjustment until I could get down to the community cycleworks and have access to the shop tool and equipment.) I had to stop short at a light and almost went over the handlebars because my fronts grabbed so much more strongly. The pads are still fine, but I had replaced cables not that long ago, so I need to do an adjustment to take out the slack from the initial cable stretching.

While I'm still pretty bad about edge riding during most of the commute I'm trying to force myself to be a bit bolder about taking a lane when I need to. It's a work in progress, I think having been hit back in 2009 still has me a bit nervous when it comes to riding in heavy traffic. Trying to take the lane more has seemed to help reduce the number of drivers who think it's okay to pass me on the left only to make a right turn directly in front of me.

After Nate came through this weekend, it's been humid. Sticky, feels-like-90-when-it's-70 humid. You know how lots of electronics spec sheets say something like, "Humidity: non-condensing"? I'd have shorted out this morning if I were electronics.


Almost no traffic since I had to get in early for a meeting; I don't know whether it's better to get started in the dark and avoid the traffic, or wait until the sun's up. At least I'm riding generally west in the morning, so most* traffic won't have to look into the rising sun to see me!


*Never know, though. Some people backing out of driveways are scary, as are some folks who're taking two full roads' width to make a turn.

Smoky here today and the weatherman said stay inside, plus I need to hit the Halloween store this week, so no ride today.

42F, overcast.

Crazy sidewind (and/or headwind depending on which way I was pointing) last night.

That's how I am. I like having roads to myself in the early hours. But in the cold, dark winter it's just depressing to ride when it's so cold and so dark, like I feel like I would enjoy the commute much more if I could leave the house at 8 instead of 6 AM. But I know traffic would be far worse.

Spokey Robinson is his current bike. And come to find out last night all his clothes comes from thrift shops and now he is up to 379,000.00.

Anyway, today's ride was very nice except for the person who I got spooked by standing at the end of the driveway. Due to it being so dark I did not see the person until the last minute and then I said hi!. So that road is off the ride until it starts being light before six am. The temp was a nice 51 f degrees with partly cloudy skies.

Back on my bike after several months running in (not the full distance). Body is telling me I need to give it a break from hitting the pavement by feet.

66F/19C pleasant ride in but boy am I out of synch with my bike commuting routine.

High 40s today, so out came the full fingered gloves, arm warmers, balaclava and tube socks. Also, headwinds.
Tomorrow morning it is supposed to be in high 30s, so I will add tights to the above.

One school of thought here is to just get wet and not worry about rain gear - at least when it's warm. If it's warm you're just going to sweat underneath the waterproof stuff and be soaked anyway.

Major fog turned to no fog and back to major fog for my commute. My arm and leg hairs were all water beaded up after riding. I had to remove my glasses for the last couple of miles. Nice enough ride otherwise though.

Colder this morning but it is forecast to be milder mornings over the next few days or so. Air temp was 3C/37F but the wind chill, colder because I was riding into the wind, was -3C/27F. After the first 3km/2mi, my gloved fingers were beginning to feel cold but I forgot about that a bit further down the road so I must have warmed up more. Nice easy 8km/5mi ride.

That's what I figure. It's just water. As long as you have fenders, it's relatively clean water too.

As long as I have dry clothes to change into when I reach my destination then I don't get too uptight about getting wet on the way there.