Had the good old caring co-worker interaction last night:
"Why don't you take a company truck home?"
"Naw, i'll bike it, thanks"
"Oh go on"
"It'll only save me like 15 minutes"
"That's 15 minutes with the kids, take the truck"
"I've been sitting in that truck all day, i'm looking forward to the ride, thanks anway"

Just wanted to keep riding this morning. But I didn't.:(

My ride in was going along okay for about 2/3 of the way when I slid as I was going under a bridge and wiped out on the wet wood sidewalk. I wasn't going very fast (though apparently too fast for the wet wood...) and was not hurt at all, but my wheels kind of hit the railing and apparently the rear wheel hit it rather hard. I picked myself up, dusted myself off and started riding again after a quick survey of the bike. About half a mile later, I have a flat. Curses! Oh well, I figure I will put on a spare tube. Nope, no tube in my pack. Arg! Okay, I have a patch kit, so that should work. I take the wheel off and pull off the tire then pull out my pump to see if I can find the hole. Unfortunately, my pump is missing one key little piece that will allow it to work with the schraeder valve on this wheel. Curses again! So, after a 2 mile walk to the nearest bike shop, I drop my bike off to be fixed (when I took off the wheel, I found two broken spokes, too...) and take a cab the rest of the way to work.

Did I mention that this was my first day riding into my new job?

Tomorrow, maybe I will ride my other bike...

Had it all this morning...started clear, then rain, then freezing rain, then sleet, then snow...all within 8 miles

31F pea-soup fog. Kinda peaceful.

Nice ride in this morning. Blue skies and sunny but brrrrrrr! I need some gloves. lol. The best part is I found a new route that keeps me from having to deal with a kamikaze intersection that I always hated. Now if I can find an alternative route home since I can't reverse the ride due to one way streets.

First above freezing ride in a while, 33. Nice!

a swift ride in on the road. Am I the only cyclist who stops for the red light on Comm Ave at the BU Bridge? No less than 9 cyclists ran that light while I waited. Then thinking my observance of the law would be appreciated I was practically run down by the traffic as I took off with them whizzing on both sides to get around me. Kind of makes you think it's better to run the light.

The ride home I took the bike path- most of the ice is gone and it was nice and quiet. Got chased by some woman's dog. Finally stopped, talked to the dog and it calmed down but then I gave the owner my "no bad dogs just bad owners" speech and how until she and "Maggie" (the dog) sort out who's in charge Maggie should be on a leash. The dog was probably a pretty good dog but she was ready to nip me on the foot when I finally stopped. The owner looked sufficiently shamed so I didn't get too high and mighty but I was tempted.

Then about 6 miles into my 10 mile ride home I realized I'd left my cell phone in my office. I won't be in the office again until Saturday so I opted to ride back. So my 20 mile commute ended up as a 32 mile commute today.

Could get used to this 50sF coming home...

Windy. Hard work.

Two days after an asthma attack. Measured my Peak Flow today: 175. not good. no ride for me till that gets back up to at least 350. :(

Rode 10 miles into the office and took light rail. Rode 30 miles home and averaged 19.9. 100 miles this week. But the good part was this was the first time I have broken out my geared road bike all winter. Been riding my single speeds exclusively. Gears are good. Got to 38 mph in traffic on the way home drafting a truck. Fun, FUN!....

Only downside, the nicer the weather the more ppl on the MUP.

I had a 20mph tailwind all the way home. Don't know what I did to deserve that one...

Also found yet ANOTHER, better route to work courtesy of google maps. Not a bad day.

What a difference a day makes. 23F/-5C, with 15-20mph headwinds gusting to 30 (only hit a few of those, though). Needless to say, it was a little slower than usual...

Just a gentle reminder that this is, after all, still February, I suppose.

Brutal commute yesterday, cold and very windy. The roads were wet in the morning, so I took my single speed. One the way home, I was riding right into the wind much of the way with just one gear. Plus my legs were tired from piling up a lot of miles lately, so that made for a long ride.

However, waiting for me at home was my new touring bike that I plan to use for commuting. I had just enough time for an 8-mile spin through the neighborhood when I got home, and I rode it to work today for the first time. I'm still getting all of the adjustments right, but it's gonna be a keeper. I'll post another thread with pictures on the Commuting forum.

It was colder on the way home today. Kept it on the big chain ring on the last hill before home and that warmed me up. I can't believe that I was able to replace my front brake pads as good as I did. The Kool Stop Mountain Pads work much better than the stock pads that came with my Tektro CR720's.

Rode Into Town With My Son ....
 

Yesterday my youngest son and I rode into town for his doctor appointment. We had a nice ride together. When we left the doctor, we stopped off at the market to pick up some milk. Price of milk has really dropped! Was $2.99 at this market, and only cost us $2.17/gal yesterday.

I'm assuming you mean inbound? I always stop there. There's rarely a lull in cross traffic, but even if there's a gap at the bridge that I can ride through, I don't. I'm a big proponent of not messing up traffic flow, especially during rush hour, if I can help it, and shooting gaps there does tend to slow down the cross traffic. Backing up one car causes a ripple effect in heavy traffic, and I'd rather just wait my turn and let everyone get through in as efficient manner as possible.

I guess the annoying thing about waiting for the green is sometimes there will be a car on your left that needs to get into the right turn lane past the light and will cut you off like you weren't even there. I guess I've learned to watch out for that, and I rarely have problems.

SO COLD! Here in Knoxville it was in the upper 60s to 70s all last week, and, now, it has gotten back down into the 30s. BOOOOOOOOoooooooooo......

Nice ride in today. My hands got abit too warm in the gloves so i took one off at a time for awhile to cool them off. A very light power of snow covering the ground.

I thought I was strong. But this morning's head wind here in Philly kicked my ass! Almost ground me to a halt on Washington avenue. But it didn't.:thumb:

Today's commute was AWESOME.. There was a wicked headwind, and it was a brisk 25 degrees, but I got my Dawes SST yesterday for my birthday and it was just the best!

So I picked up a 1979 Volkscycle 10-speed fixed up with modern driveline/wheels for 170 bucks off craigslist. Replaced the tubes, brakes, added Mr. Tuffy's, made a few adjustments and it rides wonderful! The next day I was going to head to a friends house in Glendale, and I live in Calabasas, which is 31 miles away. So I thought hey why not. So I biked to Glendale and back later on in the day and wow! This is my first real commute with a road bicycle and I think I'm in love. I've only driven really crappy mountain bikes and this thing blow them out of the water so hard. On my way back I timed it so I hit the streets at rush hour and beat the traffic soooooo easily. :-D

30F peasoup fog. No ice (that I saw).

I think the BB is going out on my FG. Seems like it's a little too soon until I started thinking about how much I abuse that danged bike. 3 winters of wet commuting and even a little SSCX has got to be hard on the BB. Time to place an order with Lickton's.

Holy crap it was windy coming home tonight.

I would gladly give up every tailwind if I never had to ride into a headwind.

Yeah, I did mean inbound. And you'd think after roughly 30 years of riding down Comm Ave I'd be used to the way some drivers use Comm Ave like it's a speed way from traffic light to traffic light but I still shake my head with wonder at times. I guess I thought all those drivers would think I was such a nice law abiding cyclist and deserved a little respect- :lol:

Today's commute was rough- this whole week was a rough one for me. Smashed my right knee x-country skiing Sunday night then broke my little toe on my right foot (smashing it into my wall!!). Hit a bottle on the way in yesterday and ended up with a slow leak on the way home. Completely forgot until I went to ride in this morning and lo and behold flat!- then I had to quickly change it. But realized on my ride home tonight that the sidewall on my Nokian studded tire (after 3 seasons and about 4,000 miles) had finally begun to give out.

And man it was cold and windy riding home tonight. It was 25〫F, which at this time of year is downright tropical but tonight it felt brutal for some reason. Slow ride home.:(

I decided to ride my tallbike back to work after lunch. I took a fall in the parking lot at work. Trying to mount the bike on a slight incline is not something I'll try again.

No injuries, just some soreness. More importantly, only one witness.

Short commute today, only 6.57 miles, but got a lot accomplished. Got to spend most of the morning with my oldest son, riding around town. Took him to the dentist first. We were the first inside to sign in, and out by 8:20. Rode to InShape City for a good workout. Then picked up some steaks and other stuff at Food 4 Less, and rode home.

Nothing really unusual. After lots of rain for the past couple weeks, I've had to spend a lot of time cleaning the bikes because of all the rain, so the dry spell is nice for a change!

nice ride in. Had to put a regular tire on the back wheel instead of my Nokian 26x1.9 studded and man, what a difference- rides like I hardly have to pedal.

I'm going to the Schwalbe's for my next set because they make a 26 x 1.75 and I really need a narrower profile because the 1.9's slightly rub the chainstays.

My ride in was speedy- ended up so early I had time to grab breakfast!- which I'd missed for the first time in months before I left the house.

Ride home was speedy, too.