45F and overcast this morning. No moose, few runners, just a whole lot of wet leaves on the path. About 3/4s of the ride I had the path to myself. It was nice.

Le zing!

Still warm here. 110 Sat, 111 Sun, 107 Mon. Today it is finally a bit cooler (101 forecast) with thunderstorms expected this evening.

This mornings ride in was fun as usual.

111 geeze, I will shut up about how hot is here now.

Nice and dry this morning and I was well-rested and fresh. Left early and saw the sunrise from the bridge. On the roadbike again and it felt very fast today. Tomorrow I've got two weeks working in Central America, i.e. without a bike, which is going to suck if the weather here stays fair.

Forgot to add a big thanks for the moose pics. That brightened my day.

Getting a bit chilly in the morning, I started wearing a thick fleece top Eh... I want Summer back!

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GriddleCakes, that was indeed a fun post, and the pictures had character, don't worry that they were blurry, I enjoyed them too

A warmer ride in, than yesterday. More traffic this morning, and this is all relative at 5:10. The difference was that cars were honking at each other, then speeding around. 5am is too early for agressive driving. The moon was very pretty, and a good companion.

Rode my touring bike today and loaded it up with clothes. I've been riding my racing bikes to work mostly over the summer and can't carry as much gear. Normally I restock on rainy days when I drive but we have been in a persistent drought for about a month now. The weather is great for bike commuting but not so good for the farmers and water supplies. We've now completely destroyed the record for 90-degree days in a year. The previous record was 83 in 2007. We're now up 87 days, and the next 4 days are supposed to top 90 as well.

Back to warm. 61F this morning. Headwind but not bad. Looked like it was going to start raining hard, but I got to work well ahead of it.

Not many cyclists out today. A couple of regulars going the other way, and I caught one guy who was doing about 16MPH and with the headwind I decided I didn't feel like passing him. Later we had split up and I came upon a young woman riding a nice road bike with a milk crate strapped to the back. It held a large bag of some sort. She seemed to be struggling with the weight of it all. Still, my bike was probably heavier.

Yesterday I did an extra-long commute home through woods & fields and going out of my way through neighborhoods and what-not. Trying to get more miles. I'm almost at 10,000 on the Liquid. Bought almost 4 years ago.

Excellent commute this morning at 63F and sunny with winds from the S @ 13mph. Saw about 6 other bicyclists on the road, which is very strange. One passed my with an e-bike. Usually I never see any other bicyclists along my commute. Three were together doing a group ride. I also had two drivers ask my about my bike at two different stop lights.

Loved the moose. "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

Commute this morning was interesting.... 89 degrees, 90% humidity. I was planning on taking a longer, more scenic route, but about a mile in I noticed my lights were flickering every time I hit a bump. I pulled over and checked the battery connection, and one of the spade terminals had gotten kind of loose. I didn't have a pair of pliers to tighten it, so I found a piece of onion ring box on the shoulder, tore off a piece, and wedged it in there to hold it tight until I could get to work. Because I had to stop, I decided to just go on with my regular route.

In town, I passed 3 cop cars and an ambulance (dem amberlamps) just sitting in the road with lights going. There were neighborhood people out looking around, but I didn't see any cops, or EMTs. No idea why they were there.

1C/34F, calm and clear. I can now get to work without being blinded by the rising sun, which makes me feel a bit safer on the east-bound streets. A big thanks goes to the very courteous motorist who anticipated my need to lane change and slowed down to let me before I had even shoulder-checked.

Not much exciting on this mornings commute to work. 7C and a nice full moon.

45F, and tattered cloudcover an improvement over the solid ceiling of last several forevers

FunkyStickman, I was going to come in here and complain about it still being in the low 70s with high humidity when I left at 7 this morning, but I'll just shut up now. :-)

Today is apparently International Car-Free Day. It feels pretty good to be down to one day a week driving into work. Nothing really eventful on the ride in. A squirrel was running along the top of a chain link fence next to me until I finally beat him. Then later I got my regular "way to go" cheer from the one man cheering section on Jackson/Park/whatever it's called at that point.

Yeah, and that's at dawn... will be in the 90's when I go home at 4:30. It's not too bad, I drink a LOT of water because I sweat a lot.

Nice living here in Canuckistan... almost had frost this am and by this afternoon it will be short weather.

Could be working on my tan on Saturday since it is supposed to be summery.

NYC Morning Commute: Commuting by Bicycle from Jackson Heights, Queens to Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan.


Beautiful ride in this morning. I bought a bike in March, and started commuting daily by April. I've been meaning to bring my camera along for a long time, but finally did this morning. About 6.5 miles on the first day of autumn. 65º, low humidity, clear and sunny.

Bike lanes and marked sharrows all through Queens, and slow street traffic in Manhattan. New construction in Queens Plaza finally about to build a safe bike approach to the Queensboro Bridge - though construction has temporarily made a chaotic crossroads even worse. Traffic was a mess and ultimately had to take a detour on Manhattan's East Side for road closures because of the President's visit to the UN. I'll try to photograph that part of town on another day.

Morning Commute Flickr Slideshow

Full Set with descriptions

Was a good commute, 52* and sunny ... half way to work when I noticed my rear tire was a little soft ... starting on the downhill side of a pedestrian overpass that I can reach speeds of 30 mph. So I walked the bike down the overpass and proceded to patch the tube (roadside assistant was home getting ready for work) after 15 minutes was back on the road. Looking forward to the ride home, sunshine low 70's and will take the long way home (12.5 miles).

10C/50F this morning when I headed out. Largely uneventful ride. Two layers of synthetic fabric t-shirts, black leggings and glove weather. Felt good on the hills today.

Car-Free Day here, too. Ironically, today was the first day in about a week I had to drive my car --- had a doctor's appointment in a very distant location. I had hoped to make it back from the appointment in time to ride my bike downtown for the festivities, but that didn't work ut either. I might have played hookie since I didn't get to work until after 2 PM, but my new rear derailleur arrived at my work address today, so I knew I needed to be here to get it. Come hell or high water, I'm installing that puppy tonight! :-)

Let me just say that 2 PM is a lovely time to commute in to work. There were VERY few people on the MUP. Ended up being paced by a roadie who served as a nice bunny for a while... I followed behind (not right on his wheel, but 10-20 feet back most of the time) as we cruised around 20 mph w/ a nice tailwind.

Since I'm riding to meet up with my wife for dinner and a movie then metro-ing home, I've only got about 1.5 miles of rotten shifting left to deal with. In other news, I found some really loose non-drive side spokes on my rear wheel last night. Probably a result of something that got caught in my rear wheel a couple days ago and broke some of the fender mounting hardware, too. Tightened back up a couple turns so they're actually under some tension, but probably need to spend a little time at the co-op or take the wheel over to the LBS over the weekend to get it all fixed up right and tensions properly checked. There's always something to fix... but that's part of the fun as long as it's not too expensive. :-)

One last thing... passed 2500 miles total on my bike for the year on the commute in this AM. Still shy of 2500 commuting miles, but I'll be there soon. Wish I could work in more fun rides and get my touring started...

If that's warm what's hot, you might need a sweater at 101!

Another great commute even though my bike dropped me like a sack of potatoes. 81F and sunny with winds from the W @ 10mph. The incident was clearly my fault. I was coming to a green light turning right and sped up so I could make the light. I was going between 18-20mph and when I rounded the turn, I saw stopped cars not too far in front of me. I panicked and hit the brakes, and the bike slid out from under me. Within about 5 secs I was back on the bike and going so I didn't have to hold any cars up. The only damage to me was a lightly bruised hip. The only damage to my bike was a messed up alignment and a lost bell, which was sitting in the middle of the road. I was going to get it, but figured the light was going turn green any second and there would be cars coming my way. As soon as I was able to, I pulled into a parking lot to fix the alignment and give the bike a good look over. I definitely learned a lesson tonight, at least about that turn. I was very lucky that it wasn't much worse. Once I got going again, I was making a great pace for at least a good mile with very little effort. It was like I had a huge tailwind. It ended up being an very enjoyable commute in beautiful weather even with my little mishap.

I was woke up around 5AM to a loud torrential downpour. It rained all morning while I was getting ready. Got all rain geared up and headed out.

Sure enough the clouds had mostly moved to the North. I should have stopped and took off the rain gear, but I didn't trust the weather to hold. The rain gear makes me sweat a LOT more. I'm going to have to start bringing a change of undies too when I wear that stuff. Normally I change everything else, but this morning they were a little moist. Oh well I have lots of "extra" clothes in my office. I guess some more won't hurt.