Today's commute was great (in both directions). I started early this morning to do a recreational ride with a neighbor (we cycled for about an hour and a half before I veered off towards my workplace). It was relatively cool for this time of year in Atlanta.

The trip home was pretty routine, but I took the scenic route by Oakland Cemetery, Grant Park, and Glenwood Park.

70 and sunny this morning, quiet and relaxing. My ride is 8 mi each way, 2/3 of which is on a rail/trail path.

For whatever reason, today it felt so violating when I hopped off the path onto the street and started sucking in all the car fumes. Validates why I love off-road riding so much. None the less, I still love the commute. Thank goodness for the path and all it's clean air...

Nice ride in this morning. Temp was 67F when I left the house. Not a cloud in the sky. Ride home was warm and windy. Temp in the low 90s.

Noted a new chain-link fence which will apparently block the bike path into downtown during the DNC next week. :(

LOL, I started earlier this year than last year and have been more diligent about 5 days a week, driving my car only 1 or 2 days per month, 3000 miles so far this year. Today, I brought the car because I have a noon flight and will head on to the airport later this morning, but . . . my car signaled and made it partway off the road towards a MUP I use as a north-south connector before I realized I wasn't on my bike! Too funny for me.

Nearly ideal ride in today- ~64F with low humidity, and traffic seemed light too. Beautiful sunrise. It would have been perfect if not for my front deraileur acting up. I think the cable slipped, or is getting ready to break. All of a sudden I am getting a lot of chain rub and have difficulty shifting from middle ring to big ring

Nice ride for me too. Upper 50sF, brilliant blue sky. I saw a big fluffy gray kitty crossing the MUP. Only saw a couple cyclists going the other way.

Last day of work before vacation!
:beer:

Didn't ride in today. I was too tired, but now I'm sittting here at work reading the threads and feeling sorry for myself. I got my 21 mile ride this weekend to look forward to.
Ernest

warm commute. 70's. cloudy, looks like rain.

some jerk honked at me and screamed some obscenity at me as he passed. The adrenaline in me told me to give him the one finger salute. And I always listen to my adrenaline.

Anyway, so he saw this and slammed on his brakes about 30 yards ahead, as I closed the distance he thought better of it and drove off. Good thing to, I was in the mood to crush some skulls.

I wimped out today. Just dont feel very good and this afternoon is suppose to be hot. I am a wuss.

Played "catch you at the next light" with a guy on a scooter last night going home. We had some decent conversation and how crappy some cagers treat both of us. It was 80 out and I'm in t-shirt and shorts and he's riding in full leather, man was he sweating.

Little guy had me up on and off all night and my head just isn't with it so I wimped out today too. But tomorrow is another day whahahah.

past couple of days have been great commutes. really nice weather. perfect weather today and I am not riding - BOOOO! Like FredOak above, when I got home at 1:45am this morning from working all night, my 1yr old was up and wouldn't go to sleep for the next 1.5 hrs...so, wimped out...I'm so TIRED!

It's been clear and dry for a month here, but for the last two days it's been overcast. That makes my 6:15 departure kind of dark. I've got my HID off the bike for some maintenance, and rode in this morning on my LED light. It forced me to go a lot slower than I'd like and even so I hit a lot of rough spots on the gravel road part of my commute; moved my time from 35 to 42 minutes.

I gotta get that light back together. I've sort of been waiting for BatterySpace to get a new inline switch/regulator in stock, but I'm going to have to put it back together this weekend without it and worry about that later.

I leave at 7 AM myself. It has been nice weather recently. The overcast is no fun. Where in MI are you at?

Good commute, although I had some annoying headwinds on the way in.

*sigh*
Came in late this morning to see the other U-lock gone. It had only been there a few weeks and it was being used less and less. It was kind of depressing to think they threw in the towel. Maybe they just took it so they could use it to lock their bike at the store?? probably not they haven't ridden since at least last tuesday. :(

Adjusted my rear derailleur last night, per SRAM's manual. I was careful, honest.

Chain skipped this morning, everything I did made it worse, and it finally came off and jammed both wheels.

Got it back on, couldn't figure out how to undo the bad adjustments, chain was skipping all over the place. I am now back home with my kids. Preschool is cancelled and I have grease everywhere.

Apparently rear derailleurs are next on the list of things to learn more about.

noteon: Check out Park Tools. They have how-to guides for doing almost everything you can think of for your bike.

Streets were quiet this morning. Almost like a holiday weekend. Weird.

Nice and cool ... good change after the +30 of a few days ago.

Summer winding up?

Thanks. I chose the SRAM Dual Drive manual over that because, well... it's a SRAM Dual Drive. Silly me.

I took it to the LBS. They said there was something going on inside the Dual Drive clickbox, but since the mechanic doesn't speak English and the owner's translator skills are less than optimal, I don't know any more than that. But after they did whatever they did to the clickbox, all it needed was an adjustment to the low limit screw, and it seems fine now.

And I still don't know exactly what was wrong. One of the down sides to living in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood...

I keep seeing the same guy commuting the other way every morning. Looks like a poor guy, raggedy clothes, commuting on some generic freestyle bike. I get the impression that he bikes because that's the only mode of transportation he can afford.

So I hesitate to tell the guy to start riding on the correct side of the road. He's always on the sidewalk going against traffic. I doubt he's cycling for fun if he doesn't know that basic rule...Oh well. What can you do.

Ojala que this might help: http://sheldonbrown.com/es-eng.html

Nice ride in this morning, no rain for the first time in a couple days.

Hmm... it doesn't have an entry for "The doofus thinks he's a mechanic."

Which they were too polite to say while I was there.

But we were all thinking it.

Just over in Chelsea. The weather has been miserable; it hasn't rained for about 6 weeks. Finally we got some this evening, but we could use that every day for a week. I've been having to water a lot of plants and the gardens daily for weeks now.

If it'll actually RAIN I'd take the overcast every day, and happily ride in the rain.