Rode all weekend. My legs are soooo tired. I'm actually looking forward to working on the deck tonight.

My ride to work was immediately followed by my ride home from work, due to a death in the family. The rides were a much-needed infusion of peace and nature into my day. In fact, since I'm off for the day, I may go for another ride just to clear my head.

Sorry for your loss, girljen. Take it easy.

Sorry to hear, GirlJen.

Ride in to work was nice. Mid 70 degrees.

Ride home was hot with a side of hot. Topped off with a little more hot. Thermometer said 98. They said the heat factor(whatever that is) was 104. Plus a head wind. Still beats being in a car..

Nice ride home too. A little rain, those large ice cold drops but only lasted a few min.

Morning commute was OK.
evening was rainy, fresh but humid (75°F, 94%).

PS: On my way back my left resin platform pedal broke, so i had to use the axle has pedal, lol. I knew this was gonna happen but never expected this soon, hopefully I will be getting new pedals tomorrow.

90F but felt closer to 100. I'm glad I bought a second water bottle.
Except while at MEC I got suckered into buying a bike computer. I blame you guys.
Now I gotta measure the wheel and mount it up.

1pm was a 5 mile voyage through hell at 105F, took me quite a while to cool down before work. The return trip at midnight was a pleasant 88 degrees. 10 miles in total, which included my fastest time home yet: you'll be surprised how fast you can ride when you gotta go to the bathroom.

got a question for you sweaty guys/gals with a locker... i tend to add in a few miles before and after work into my commute, what do you guys do with your sweaty clothes/wet towel? is there some magical way to get them to dry?

thanks

Coat hangers on the outside of locker. What gross person steals someone elses sweat-soaked gear?! For a towel? In all seriousness I use one of those synthetic chamois you can buy to dry your car. They work great!

All in all a fine ride today. A little sticky at 73 degrees with 94 percent humidity.


Hey "gaberX", you can get one of those desk fans to dry out clothing. I have one under my
desk for general airflow purposes, but they work great if you hang clothes in front of them. Other
than that I just use my locker. I don't really mind putting on gear that isn't fully dry some days.
It's going to be sweaty again in a few minutes anyway.

Excellent ride, till I got to work my spoke broke. But I was already there. Hah!

I drove yesterday because the weather forecasters were saying we WERE going to get severe thunderstorms all afternoon. Since we had afternoon t-storms for 3 days previous, I took the forecasters word for it. Bad call. Turned out to be a gorgeous day, sunny with relatively mild humidity and temperatures. Not a drop of rain or storms anywhere. So I rode my bike today even though the forecasters are calling for thunderstorms again this afternoon. Just my luck, I'll probably get drenched. I've got the fenders on my bike today, however.

Ugh. Sticky. On the plus side, the women runners are dressed as scantily as possible.
:love:

And I work on a college campus. Nice place to jog or ride. O the scenery.:thumb:

Back on the bike today after a week off due to a head cold/sinus infection/bronchitis cough. Sticky morning for sure. Saw 3-4 other commuters on my way in and got waves from most. Should be a nice, hot ride home this afternoon.

Oh the Humidity! 75*F and 90% humidity this morning. I decided to think for once, and left a pair of jeans at work last night to be a bit lighter, so this morning, I was able to ditch the panniers and just use the trunk bag. Result was beating my best time by over 3 minutes, and about 2mph faster overall. It was a nice ride! My wife made some lemon cake over the weekend, and I have been having a small slice every morning w/ tea-maybe that is it!

+1 on the clothing challenged joggers!

I bailed out yesterday too, and was realy bummed out when I saw how nice it was in the PM. Sadly, I bailed out today too, after seeing the weather forecast this AM. Hopefully we just get rain and no TStorms. Whatever the case you'll be soaked by the time you get home either way...rain or sweat.

Weather guys dont know nuthin.:rolleyes:

I overslept, got ready in 15 minutes, then dropped the hammer. I got to work right on time!

The ride to work was really nice, and once again not off the bike, well alright the last hill I did acctualy push the bike up, but that was due to the heavy traffic, and not wanting to start at a step hill where there is a light.

I did the really long hill that I usaly fail at, although I was on the lowest gear and really dead after it. (And that's strange, because usally I forget about the gears).

Home in just two hours, and I will play boardgames on the way. (Although not having panniers, I don't have enough place to put the games on the bike, or in the backpack, so I have todo with what others bring)

Now just to get, what's the best way to bike to the place we play at.

I dropped the hammer once, broke my foot er well nevermind.:lol:

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To the nice woman in the silver volvo who insisted on riding behind the cyclists on Falls blowing her horn for about two minutes as I was riding on the right edge of a wide outside lane.

You might want to look into some sort of meditation or exercise program to help with the stress.

Tomorrow, please slow down a little so I can make out what you're screaming out your passenger window. Maybe you can explain why you were the only motorist today who was unable to pass me without throwing a temper tantrum.

If it happens again, I'll post your picture and license plate here and maybe send the video to the news stations for all your friends to see.

Yesterday afternoon was a miracle...normally high 90s and humid. Well, I got out right after a small storm and there was still a ton of cloud cover and a cool breeze. I squeezed every bit of enjoyment out of it that I could because I won't get another day like that for a very long time. :)

This morning was cool and delightful. I left about 15 minutes earlier than normal and even that made a difference as far as traffic. Very nice.

Almost didn't ride today, but pulled it out at the last minute. Had a very pleasant and fast trip in and then met a nice girl on her first bike commute on the train. I noticed and asked why her front brake was unhooked. She said that it was rubbing on one side and bugging her and she didn't know how to adjust it. I gave her some basic instructions and told her if she couldn't make it work, I'd show her how tomorrow.