zirger726

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDCvQbOdig That's how my commute was today.

cehowardGS

Yesterday, I had a sweet commute in the rain. However, at the middle of the day, I started feeling a little woozy. Anyway, the rain had picked up, and with me feeling not up to par, I called the wife to come pick me up. Left the bike at work. Today, much better. Wife takes me to work, but at lunch time, I am feeling bad again. However, it is not raining. I got about 9 to 10 miles to get home. I took the bike and rode the 9 to 10 miles home. Thanked the beater #1 bike for getting me home quickly and safely. It was cold today too. .

trevor_ash

I'm outside of Chicago, it was definitely chilly today. I had to stop halfway through and put on a second head cover as my head was starting to freeze (bald head).

richard4993

I have to pick up one of those helmet mirrors it wopuld make riding in NYC a little eaisier.

Other than a car racing past me only to turn right in front of me my commute was nice. The one thing i thought was strange is that somebody locked a Trek 7.5 FX to nothing. The bike was in the rack with just the frame locked to the front wheel with a really cheap cable. The bike was also 100% quick release.

Mardmakarm

First time open and clean BB myself, much easier than i thought.




There's some water left inside after riding in the water many times.

However, water level here's slowly decreasing.I hope everything will be back to normal soon.


Btw, This will happen if you don't plan how to manage junks while in the flood correctly.

consumes

those are some disgusting pics .... wow .... glad you got the BB all cleaned up

my ride in to work today was 43 F and rainy ....the sun was just setting ...

the ride home is forecasted to be 40 F with a windchill of 30F ... 17 mph winds .... and more rain

Chalupa102

Didn't ride the past 3 days because I've was working on my trike. I'm slowly turning it into a corovelo (coroplast velomobile). It still needs work but it's now rideable.

Great commute this morning at 35F and dawn to sunny with mostly headwinds from the W @ 11-14mph gusting to 21mph. Made pretty good time despite the headwinds. I owe that to the coroplast shell. Hopefully the wind continues from the West so I'll have nice tailwinds home.

tarwheel 

Coldest commute of the fall with temps in upper 20s and low 30s. Felt good but my hands got cold. Might be time for some new gloves that will handle temps better in the 20s since my commute distance is longer now. I've got some PI Amfibs that are good down the teens (at least) but are too warm for temps warmer than mid-30s.

My main headlight battery ran out of juice on the ride home for the first time. Fortunately I have another light on my helmet, so I made it home fine. I knew that I was pressing my luck and thought about charging it Weds night, but was also curious about how many days it would last with my new longer commute. I didn't factor in all of the time spent at traffic lights as well as having to run my lights longer yesterday due to clouds and rain. Anyway, I have no complaints about the light (L&M Stella 300) because I got about 6 hours commuting out of a single charge.

Igo

39 yesterday. My new low temp. It was still a great ride so I still don't know where my bottom temp will be. 67 on the way home . Great ride as always.

JPinWI

Almost didn't bike it Today but I couldn't pass up a 15mph tail wind....30 degrees. Excellent! Hope the wind will switch 180 degrees for my ride home.

gecho

-11C with fresh snow, not a lot but enough to make riding tricky. The front wheel was floating on the loose snow and very squirrelly. I probably would have been better off with my touring bike with narrower tires today. I'm glad I left extra early so I could stay in the driving lane without having to frequently move over to allow cars to pass. The ride took 65 minutes and would have been longer if there was traffic. The path under the railway was completely blown in, so I had to walk that part.

One annoying thing about fresh snow, is that in the absence of painted dividers, drivers take the racing line through the curves, which means bisecting the curb lane.

wphamilton

You can get pretty amazing performance I think especially with a low-slung trike and that nice front windshield. I'm not that tolerant of cold so I thought it was funny this morning, that I was thinking 30 degrees was kind of warmish for a windbreaker.

Pictures please, let's see what you've done!

idc

Temperature was 33 ish? My first commute in a couple weeks, felt great other than some chilly fingers. Although I was a little surprised how much slower I was and how sluggish I felt at times. Darn you flu.

Raleigh GP 08

Cold commute in this morning, definitely below 30 with the wind chill. Had the full winter kit on, so didn't have any issues once I was warmed up. In fact, seems like I sweat more with all those layers on by the time I get to work.

GriddleCakes

-5* and no wind (finally), and apparently some joker painted target on my jacket last night. Got cut off and brake checked in front of the high school, and ended up rear ending a minivan. Almost managed to get around, but the front rack caught the corner of her rear bumper. I was already on the brakes, so I just came down on the top tube and took the left side of the handlebar to the gut when it was wrenched around by the collision, which sucked but didn't cause any real damage. More importantly, the bike is fine. Rack wasn't knocked out of alignment, or even scratched!

I'd been riding in the center of the lane, because I'd been coming up to one of the entrances to the high school, which was stupidly busy right then (I usually pass here 15-20 minutes earlier, but I was running late). Like maybe 40 feet before the driveway, the van whipped by me in the oncoming, then cut in front and SLAMMED on her brakes to make a right into the school. I pulled into the parking lot behind the van and had a little talk with the driver about stopping distances in the winter, and asked why she felt it necessary to pass me right before the driveway instead of waiting 5 seconds for me to pass it (she said she didn't know how fast I was going, which is mind boggling as she had just overtaken me ).

And what was she in such a hurry to get to? The 15 car long drop off line. Anyway, she was very sorry, and in the end I just asked her to be more careful (I even said please). But now I was really late. After that incident it wasn't too hard to put the hammer down, but at -5* it was damn hard to keep it down. At a light a bit later on a woman in the right turn lane rolled down her window and told me that I'd been doing 22-23 mph on the previous stretch, on my 55 lb. cruiser with studded tires. I have no idea why she felt the need to report my speed, so gave her a thumbs up and said thanks.

Ran out of nitro about a mile from school, so I was probably only doing around 15 mph when the next idiot decided to try and ruin my day. There's a 20 mph road that snakes around the back of campus, and this knucklehead decided to try and pass on a blind 90* turn (it's got a Dangerous Corner sign and everything). Oncoming traffic forced him behind me; and after the corner there's still more oncoming, but he went ahead and squirted through the center to beat me to the stop sign that's a 100 feet away. As he passed less than a foot from me, I hauled off and punched the rear cab window, then he ran the stop sign and turned right; I went through going left so I didn't catch him (not that I wanted or had time to).

Showed up 5 minutes late for lab, and now I'm kind of anxious about the ride home. Definitely gonna hit the road before rush hour today. Y'all be careful out there.

shine

Mighty fine commute today. Up early. Trade winds picking up this morn, showers cruising in. Rode with tail wind like sailing, sea to my left. Bare feet on retro pedals. Sweet air, morning sun glisten on sea. I take our new path part way. Rockin. Yesterday's ride home on highway, put my head down, clicked in to gear, made it happen.

richard4993

I didn't have work or school but I did have some things to do in Manhattan today. Overall it was a nice 35 miles round trip only issue was a guy honking me on First Avenue on the UES. One question I have always wanted to ask these types of people is where do you want me to go, I'm in your lane cause my bike lane has a truck in it. It would make life so much eaisier if they extended the protected path all the way to 125th. I also met a real nice guy riding an extremely cool looking Cannondale Solo. We spoke about different routes that are fun to ride and he mentioned that he actually thought of buying a Utopia.

wphamilton

I was nervous on the ride home because someone had fidgeted with my bike! Gear was changed, kickstand down, tail light on, stuff in the tailbox out of arrangement and the fairing strut was slightly out of alignment. It might have just fallen over and someone helpfully picked it up. I doubt that someone actually tried to ride it but I got to thinking, I didn't check the quick releases or tire pressure other than my normal quick visual before setting off let alone brakes, cables etc so I couldn't be 100% that all was well.

Mark Stone

38 degrees for the morning half of the commute, but no wind. It was an absolute pleasure to ride, still dark before sunrise, everything fresh and new. 38 sounds chilly, but on the bike it's very comfortable. Then the ride home, playing "Dodge Teenager", was fun too - had a good, stiff tailwind pushing me down the road. I pass by two high schools on the way home, and they always react positively - they think it's cool for an old grey-headed geezer to ride, I guess

dcb23

Chilly ride in this am, somewhere around 40 I think. been fighting a cold all week so it's been tough.

Bud Bent

It wasn't a good bike commute week for me. Last week's severe head cold turned into the week's severe bronchitis. I rode to work Monday, but wheezed and hacked so bad that I took 3 days off the bike. I rode to work today, still hacking pretty badly. Not much fun.

2011 days ridden to work: 196
2011 commuting mileage: 4791.1

Easy Peasy

Balmy 40s here, no wind, dry. Just perfect.

gecho

I stayed at school until 9:30 to attend a function tonight. For the ride home it was -18C with a 24kph headwind, coldest ride yet this year. I was pretty comfortable for the ride home which took 68 minutes. About half-way I stopped to put my mitt shells on, and about 4km from home I stopped to turn up the heat on my electric foot warmers. I was amazed to find that my entire route had been plowed, aside from two side streets that never get plowed. If I had to deal with unplowed roads the whole way it would have been a very long ride.

Getting dressed for a long cold weather ride without starting to sweat is difficult. I try to move fast and that's when I get a little careless, like forgetting to latch my trunk bag in place. I heard it bouncing around and stopped to lock it in place. The battery in my main headlight gave out on the way home so I needed to switch to the backup. I charged the pack last night but only got 20 minutes on high power before it fell back to a lower setting.

I'm impressed with my electric foot warmers. I wore just a thin wool sock and my feet weren't at all cold. Normally riding in these kinds of temperatures my toes would be quite cold and red by the end of a ride. The cables and battery packs are a pain, but will be worth the trouble if my feet can stay warm all winter.

GriddleCakes

-10º F this morning. Coldest I've ridden in this winter, and I kind of over reacted when I saw the temp and over dressed. First time that I've ridden down the Hillcrest MUP since the previous wind event; wicked bumpy packed single track winding it's way through four foot tall snow drifts, intermittently buried in road plow spray. The next closest bikable corridor into downtown takes me three miles out of my way, but I might use it anyway until the Hillcrest trail improves.

But not tomorrow, as I'm probably calling in sick. Got hit with a serious sinus headache, sore throat, and back of the throat mucus drip half way through work; even begged a ride home of off a co-worker, I felt so bad. I shouldn't be riding around in sub-zero temps anyway, if I'm ill.

MaverickBanksy

12c a tad warm in leggings and two base layers needs to be a tad colder, clear weather, in the dark now its winter at 0645, 6 miles of urban jungle including a mile long steep bridge and a hectic main road, jumped a few traffic lights so i didn't have to slow down, and overtook a car that was in my way.

All in all very good, accompanied by some dubstep i did it in 17 mins. New PB.