Nice commute home at 71F and sunny with winds from the N @ 14mph. I forgot to mention this morning that there were 9 bicycles on the bike rack at school including mine. I tend to think that I have the longest commute at 19 miles one-way out all the other riders there, which is fine. I could be wrong though.

Strongest headwind in a while this AM... 18 mph gusting to 24. It's died down quite a bit, but I should still have a semblence of a tailwind for the ride home.

Got in a ride or two over the weekend, which is a rarity, so that was nice. One of the rides was post-pedicabbing (i.e., 1 AM)... went for a spin along the river in the darkness (with my lights a-blazin'). Love riding at night... part of me looks forward to when the ride home from work will be in darkness.

Another great day to ride! I expected to have sore legs today after riding something under 40 miles with a friend yesterday who's riding a new carbon fiber bike. I had to push it a bit to not slow him down and I found it hard to stay on his wheel, seems that one gear was too high and the other too low to keep up a decent cadence. A road bike is not the same as an LHT as regards the gearing apparently. I felt really good when I was in front and set a good pace until I was almost spent. Anyway I slept very well last night and surprisingly felt great on my commute this morning. My ride home from work was also very nice although it was 10 degrees cooler. Love this weather.

Good run today. Ran the commuter 25 km on the Grand River Trail again from Glen Morris to Brantford, Ontario and back. Virtually no one on the trail and was able to run my new IPod the whole way. And... I didn't have to pay to park leaving the car at the trail head. I hate paying to park with an unholy passion (almost as much as I hate bylaw officers). Besides, I don't want to leave my vehicle in the car theft capital of Ontario.

I would like to add one more thing I left out of my previous post; I have been using a MagicShine light for a while now and on my way home Friday night one of the lens covers and the internal focus lens feel out on my way home. I wrote GeoMan and asked him if the parts were available and he responded right away, he will mail them to me at no charge. Now that's what I call service after the sale!

Skipped my last class today and rode out to Kincaid Park to hook up with the lady and ride the long way home, through the only sunny part of town. I tried taking pictures while riding, but most of them ended up way blurrier than this:

Riding no handed while operating a camera phone was definitely the dumbest thing I did today. As we rounded a corner, and I almost rear-ended the Lady G'Cakes when she stopped for this guy:

I don't like passing moose when they're facing me, as I've met a couple who seemed to interpret this as charging, and responded in kind. So we waited for a bit:

To no avail. So we pushed the bikes through the woods, over to an adjacent powerline, and then back onto the path past the bull. From the other side, we saw someone else in the same predicament:

I know, that pic sucked. What can I say? It's an iPhone. Anyway, that crappy pic should prepare you for this one, of yet more moose (cow and calf, although the calf is lost in the shadow and blur):

The Lady G'Cakes doesn't think too highly of the iPhone's photographic capabilities:

And another lil' ungulate, at Earthquake Park:

Awwww! Look at the bab....Hey! No, not onto the path! Bad calf:

Another detour around another moose. Welcome to fall on the Coastal Trail. We counted 11 of the hairy buggers on the way home tonight. Here I am about to almost rear-end the Lady, again. And while the sound of my tires skidding alerted one of the runners, the one with headphones on required a ringing of the bell:

My lady, my city:

Man, my poor lil' car just can't compete with the bike. When have you ever driven 20 miles out of your way, for no reason, and still called it a good commute?
The End (I am so getting smacked if she sees this):

First day back from vacation and wow!! 44 degrees when I got on the bike this am! I warmed up pretty quickly, but the tips of my fingers were looking for something other than the fingerless gloves I was wearing.

It was the coldest ride since April at 46 F ( 7 C). I put on the long sleeves, but could not bear to part with my shorts. There were parts of the ride where I wished that I had a hood on.

42F! I went with long sleeves this time, and a headband for my ear parts. Still wearing shorts on the legs though.

Several wild turkeys were wandering around next to my road. I coasted past them and they were wary but didn't scatter. I'd rather see a moose though! Pretty cool.

I reeled in one cyclist like a dead fish. When he realized I was behind him, he sped up to a more reasonable speed. I stayed behind him. 16-18MPH for about 5 miles before we split up. We passed a couple of people, including the guy I rode behind yesterday. I saw bmike going the other way.

I got rained on so hard heading home last night that when I headed back out later, after it turned sunny, I switched to dry socks, and they soaked through from just the wet shoes.

Very nice!

Nice weather, unseasonably warm, with a bit of a headwind. Traffic very heavy with long backups at lights. I expected to get dropped by a pair of biker babes who have passed me every tuesday the last few weeks. But no sign of them.

One of my pet peeves is the courteous driver who thinks he/she is doing me a favor by stopping in the middle of the road to let me cross. I'll have a great plan to time it to get through a break in traffic, when the driver slows down and stops. forcing me to stop and then everyone waits while it gets sorted out.

Gotta get my lights finished, not to many daylight commutes left.

Awesome moose encounters!

Today was my first commute since I had an accident 10 days ago (I still have temporary hearing loss in one ear as a result of the concussion) - a speedy and uneventful 22 miles this morning - hoping the afternoon commute will be equally dull...

Crisp, gray morning at 1C/34F. Nice ride in. Lot of other cyclists out, but the rack where I keep my bike is pretty empty these days, save for a bike which seems to have been abandoned.

Nice pics, GCakes. I like the effect of the first one - blurry around the outside, but still clear in the middle.

Nice commute in to work today along the Crosstown Greenway. It's been a few weeks since I did this route, and it's definitely colder in the mornings now. I can almost justify a jacket! I followed another cyclist through the Brunette river trail and was glad to have the extra lights.

Last day of cool mornings according to the weather forecast, but I soaked it all up today... temps in the 60s, sunny... a pretty perfect AM for a commute. Looks like Indian summer from now through the end of the week (highs back into the 90s), I've been trying to enjoy the cooler temps the last couple days.

Brand spankin' new Alivio rear derailluer should arrive tomorrow UPS. I'm psyched. Hope to stick that puppy on tomorrow night. (The one I got last weekend off a donor bike at the co-op is all wonky and shifts erratically...)

50F and gray. Clammy.

Love the Moose avoidance...I had to swerve to miss an opossum this am....unusually warm this morning with a strong South wind (tailwind thankfully)...switched back to short sleeves. Turned 3000 miles as I arrived at the plant Today. Another great day to bike commute!

I'd prefer moose dodging to what's going on this week. The UN General Assembly's in town and traffic is snarled due to all the street closures. I've been dodging peds, cops, cabs, cops giving cabs the 'wtf' look, open doors, big cement blocks, salmoning cyclists, slower cyclists and more cabs. It's gonna be nuts all week.

Bowling for Diplomats!

Very nice in AM, suppose to be 90 something this afternoon though.

Had a great ride into work today. The 20 km flew by quickly even though I was carrying a second pannier (removed my trunk bag) with my kickboxing equipment for after work today. I ride 40 km then do kickboxing in the evening. :-)

No real drama on the roads today thankfully. About 13C\55F, dry with some leftover puddles of the rain yesterday. The Wellsgo UV glow BMX pedal platforms I'm trying are working out well. I have not lost any speed even though I switched out of MKS quick release pedals with Zefal toe clips. For city riding, the large platforms work well for me.

Nice post GriddleCakes, I guess I'm living in the wrong place, all I've been seeing are squirrels with a death wish.

Yesterday CNN was on and I wasn't really paying attention. I looked up and saw this tall gorgeous brunette and thought it was Juliette Binoche and some dumpy little guy. Turns out it was Les Sarkozy entering the UN Bdg.