To all my cycling neighbours to the south, happy Memorial Day! While I have been pushing pedals to get to work I hope you have been pushing pedals to enjoy the day. :thumb:

Well that is nice. thank you.

Great commute today. Roads were almost empty at 7:00 am, so I took my time & enjoyed the ride. :thumb:

-DR

Beautiful :) I bought my first ever camera a couple of days ago... so here's a picture from about midway into my commute home today:

Nice and quiet ride in this morning. Highest morning temperature too at +6C.

first non jacket wearing commute of the year. 9C when i left today, it was glorious!

Got caught in the rain on the way home this morning. Good thing I have fenders. :thumb:

-DR

We've had alot of rain. The grass in the fields is really tall and the farmers are starting to cut it. The corn is about 1 foot high now. I give notice today!!! The new owners are not green at all and frown on the bicycle commute. I am in no way a greenie, I have a big pickup truck and probably every gasoline powered tool known to mankind. Yet, this is a business that designs and builds products for those that enjoy the environment, and one would assume that protection of the environment would be somewhere on their radar. Nope = Dope. My only criteria for the new job was: Do you have a shower and locker room? Yes! When can I start?

Made it to work this morning without getting rained on, which is quite a feat given our current weather pattern in the SE. Yesterday was even more remarkable. My friends and rode 60 miles without hitting a drop of rain, even though there were thunderstorms all over the place. I hope my luck holds as there is an 80% chance of rain today, and I still have to make it home this afternoon.

Monsoon here.... I wussed out and drove :P

Sun starts to come up sooner and sooner, so the birds are up during the first half of my commute now, that is the suburban part. Pretty nice morning, warm, dry and now with music.

I've ridden through heavier rain, but not often (or on purpose). Last June we had the remnants of T.S. Hanna roll through-I was hoping to get to where I was going before it arrived and didn't. This morning felt like that.

And I was running late. At my usual time, I got about 100 meters from my front door before a bolt of lightning came down within a mile or two directly in front of me. I doubled back and gave it about twenty minutes for the cell to pass through. Still got soaked, but I'll live. :D

I thought about taking the bus instead, but it takes longer and is just more of a hassle...

Very strong wind for a morning commute. Luckily it was a tailwind. I saw another commuter pull out in front of me but before I caught up he turned off the road I was traveling on. It was a rare sighting indeed, a road bike riding commuter actually riding on the road. You don't see many of those in these parts.

Nice this morning. Temps around 40F, sunny, and no wind. The MUP was all cleaned up from a marathon on Sunday. Just the occassional empty gu pack on the ground.

Brutal head wind today. I earned my 12mph. Otherwise, nice. About 60 deg, mostly cloudy. Plus, after a saddle adjustment last week, no more knee pain! Woo-hoo!:thumb:

It seems everyone has brisk wind this morning, me included. Not raining but threatening to. I expect to get wet on the return trip.

If you have the option, do you change your route to try and avoid the wind or do you take on the challenge of a harder workout?

I took a longer way in just so I would not have to fight the head wind.

I try to avoid giving up ground on my commute. I have a South to North route and for my current inbound route I found the route that keeps me going north for as long as possible. The wind this morning was blowing first from the northeast and at one point from the northwest. I was getting it full frontal and from the sides. But I stayed the course. I just hope the same wind is there on the way home because it will be a good tailwind then.

52F and grey; brisk I guess. Stopped for blood-draw on the way to work. Otherwise uneventful.

warmer than i thought it would be this AM--50's-ish? and i realized i forgot my shorts for the ride home--i'll be sweating it out in double-layer tights! :twitchy:

i could just wear the boxer briefs, hmmmm...:rolleyes:

Uneventful ride in this morning. Mine was the only bike on the rack; I think the forecast of scattered t-storms all day scared everyone else off (in their defense, my commute is only 4 miles).

It's been a long boring day at work so at 11 am I thought about going home. Then I checked the Doppler for the area. Take a look at the attachment. Needless to say I didn't go.

Surprisingly fresh legs this morning. Just gorgeous weather. Mid-50s, blue sky, soft breeze from the west. Should be mid-80s by this afternoon.

Awesome ride in today. AM Weather is finally above 50F

Ha ha! There's a good reason to stay at work! ;)

finally some significant daylight on my 5 am ride...:)

hihi pardon me doohickie... that's still a lovely looking sunset orange bike! :D

I had the scariest commute of my life tonight. I had to get home early and the forecast called for thundershowers. Got most of the way home just fine, but with about 3 miles to go, I see a huge lightning bolt about a half mile up the road right where I'm going. At this point, I'm so close to home and running late, so I ride right into the worst of it imagining that being struck by lightning is really quite rare. This terrain is mostly flat farm land with nothing but a few scattered houses around. As I'm riding, I see a bright flash and less than a second later the loudest crack I've ever heard. Whew, I thought, that was close. I tuck down and ride as hard as I can through this exposed area. Rain and hail are now pouring down in buckets. With less than a mile to go, two more lightning bolts struck a few seconds apart, both within a couple hundred yards since the flash and that god-awful crack were nearly simultaneous. Never have I been this close to lightning before and it was truly terrifying.

That's what turned me back for a bit yesterday--what I saw was as close as I wanted to get!

And while yesterday's ride had me trying to remember the specifications for the ark (RIIIIGHT! What's a cubit?), this morning's drizzly fog (or was it a foggy drizzle?) had me appreciating the pleasure of picking the best line rather than the stretch of pavement with least running water on it. A bit muggy even though 55F/13C, but I have no real complaint...:D

I have been extremely lucky with the rain lately. It started raining soon after I got to work yesterday and dumped 1.5 inches during the day, but the showers stopped about 15 minutes before it was time to head home, so I didn't get wet. My fenders did a great job keeping the water on the pavement off my and my bike. On Monday, my friends and I dodged showers for 60 miles and never got caught.

The morning, it was foggy but the roads were dry and there were no showers. Hopefully my luck will continue this afternoon, as scattered thunderstorms are predicted later in the day.

I love those big huge ice cold raindrops, not. But a great ride in anyway, very warm so the rain really did not feel too bad. I have to figure out something with my glasses, cant see in the rain with them, cant see at all without them.

Just like MIKEnDC, 20 miles of drizzling mist. On the bright side, supposed to be thunderstorms this afternoon :P