Don't you know? Bicycles are really really slow; they only go about 4 or 5 miles per hour, max, so there's plenty of time to pull out in front of you. :mad:

As reported elsewhere, windy. And my legs are just beat, but I'm not sure what to do about it.

Let me rephrase that: I KNOW what to do about it, I'm just not willing to do it. I should take a few days off, rest my legs, stretch, recover ....

felt really good today. Yesterday had problems in both ankles, not sure what I did to aggravate them. I actually had someone in a car give me the "thank you" wave for not cutting around them on the right when they were signalling to turn right (lots of stupid cyclists do this here, drives me nuts).

I had someone also honk at me yesterday. I turned to give them the glare, she gave me the sorry shrug and pointed at the car she was honking at. Fair enough. I still can't get over how well my ultra long commute is going. Only one real incident so far, which is outstanding.

There are two routes that I take to get home from work. The faster of the two takes me about 25 minutes. It's 7.5 miles right down the main street of my little town. Last night I decided to cut through the college and hit all the back roads. I don't know how many miles it is this way--I just started commuting--but I know the past several nights I've gotten home at 10:55 and last night I got home at 11:20. For the most part, I had the roads to myself. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

40F, foggy this am. Rode w/a herd of deer last night, freaky. I could have braked to stay behind them but I was going faster so just wanted to get in front rather than have them criss-crossing and slam into me.

23F and comfy.

I ride on a pitch black highway at 4:30 AM. Imagine my surprise today when I met someone walking along the highway. I'm not sure who was more surprised! We visited briefly with him mostly not believing I was there riding in those conditions.

I almost feel guilty posting about my near perfect riding conditions: 49F, calm, clear blue skies. Had two rides this morning: 1) shortened training ride at 7; rode home at 8:30 to have breakfast with the kids and then took them on the trailerbike to preschool. Fun, fun morning.

Do you have a tandem t-a-b?

I ride every day across Grays Ferry Bridge; coming home this afternoon was _brutal_!!! side winds almost blowing me off the bridge, barely made it up over the bridge due to the nasty headwind! I hear there was snow in North Jersey

Backup bike for $50?? My main ride was $50! LOL

It was very cold today, but it was also my first winter ride, The ride home through Columbus will be 43 and cloudy, but "feels like" 38. This morning it was 33 and "felt like" 31. So I got a whopping 7 degrees in difference for the ride home. But I made it through that so this should be much easier.

Like everywhere else in the Eastern US, it was very cold and windy here in NC this morning. Fortunately I was able to go into work late because I have to work late tonight. So I was able to ride into work in the daylight for the first time in a while, but it was surprisingly cold and extremely windy. Even though I theoretically had a tail wind heading to work, in reality the wind was swirling and it made my ride much more difficult. The ride home tonight will be interesting -- in the dark and into the wind and very cold again.

Welp. I s'pose. Getting dressed to fight the wind and cold.

Like tarwheels was talking about. It's gonna be fun - er .. except change the word fun to ugly.

Fairfax, VA, had a 6 mile commute, so pretty short. Was windy and kinda chilly at first, but once I got going I really enjoyed the weather. Commuting is great and no cars decided to try to kill me today!

The commute home was peaceful with mild traffic. I had to put most of my biking clothes back on since they didn't all fit in my backpack. They felt good this cold morning but make for a warm ride going home! I now start to see the beauty of panniers. I did have one kid in his rice-burner cage trying to buzz by me but I could hear his girlfriend setting him straight so he won't be doing that again.
Ernest

Little breezy with 20mph gusts this afternoon but not so bad. I was off yesterday and drove in because of the weather on Friday so it was good to get back out on the bike after 4 days.

Morning was 38f on the north side of A Town where is live. Got to try out my Balaclava. Thought I was still going to be cold and put a second winter beanie on. Head was sweating by the time I got to work. :lol:

Tomorrow it is suppose to be 30f. I'll skip the winter beanie and try a helmet cover so if that works out and gives a little air flow but retains some heat. Rest of me was just fine other then my ongoing battle with the reflective vest I have. Its sad but I could hit Harbor freight with a 3 mile side trip on the way home and just haven't done it. Maybe tomorrow I can hit it while I am out driving for work.

I was blown all over the place on the ride home.

That can't be taken the wrong way. ;)

Gloves would've been nice for the ride home.

Passed (both ways) 30 other cyclists. Somewhat more then normal.

Ugh, cold and raining this morning with a 17mph headwind, then cold, rain and snow at night on the way home. They're predicting 4inches tomorrow so I may bust out the mountain bike for that one but then it's supposed to be 55 and sunny on Friday....

Crazy upstate NY weather...

The ride home was awesome. I was tired and sluggish all day, well i killed it on the ride home. Felt great, felt energized for the first time all day. I stopped off at Micheal's on the way home to pick something up... if i were single, i think i'd hang out there. I mean wow, it must've been 'hot chicks get 40% off day' there or something.

This morning's commute was pretty darn cold. I wore a thermal shirt, t-shirt, longsleeve and summer jacket, along with long underpants and long tights and still it wasn't too darn warm. I did sweat a lot, so I might have to think about some new cycling clothes for the winter.
However, can't say it was cold with the clothes I wore either, so maybe I'll just stick with this.

Ah well... Might have to think this over a few times...

Ride in tonight was cold (32F) & windy 30km an hour from the Northwest.. along with rain that was just turning to snow. Wore my layers and so I warmed-up after I got started. I'm working closer to home tonight so it was only around 7km in. I had a headwind all the way in so I stayed on the lower gears which made steering allot easier. I was not going to ride when the snow came and it's been snowing lightly all night so guess I've got not choice but to go home in it, think I'll stop for breakfast on the way. Nice having time off when everyone is working, one of the advantages to shifts :)

The Shuffle didn't want to give me anything good today but the ride was nice of course.

Windy as heck on the ride home.

Cold this morning (36 when I left the apartment). My layering and windbreaker plan worked fine, but the Gator neoprene mask plan sucked. It kept shifting out of place and blocking my nose or mouth and made it heard to breath. And then it fell off completely.

But, any day on a bike is better than a day in a car.

some days are a fight.. fight the cold, fight the wind, fight the bike, and of course, your body fights back... but by the end of the 8 rounds (miles) you get rewarded with a beautiful sunrise, and a hot shower... who's making the coffee?