Damp and foggy...At least it was warmish (mid-50s).

One of my three-year-olds has speech therapy on Fridays, so the other has half an hour with Daddy in the morning. He loves helping me with the bike, so we cleaned the chain (he turns the pedals while I hold the chain cleaning tool) and I drilled him on what turns what in the drive train. He no longer says ROCKET! when I ask him what the chain turns, which I kind of miss, but SPROCKET! is pretty cute too.

So I glided to work today with a clean drive train, big snowflakes starting to fall, David Sedaris on the iPod. I don't know if I'll be able to ride home tonight, since I haven't been able to afford studs or knobbies and the Marathon Pluses are pretty near slick, but the ride in was nice. We'll see.

First ride with the M & G's. Thought I would have to stay seated on the significant hills but no, the traction was amazing. I love these things. Worth every penny!

Otherwise 4 degrees f and comfy thanks to all the info learned here. :)

alright, I cant download a pic. Any suggestions?

Mellow ride on the FG this morning. I spent an hour doing intervals on the trainer in the garage before breakfast so it was nice to just sit and spin and watch the city go by. Looks like the storm has passed east for now. I hear I-80 is closed at the summit, but there are patches of blue sky to the southwest.

I was pretty unsteady on the snow, slush, and ice, but I made it home. Veeery slowly.

Heading home soon, dark, rainy and wet. Fun stuff.

On the plus side, I passed 5,200 miles for the year this week, meaning that I’ll have averaged ~100 miles a week. Not too shabby given that last year I rode a ton on the last couple days of 2007 just to hit 3,000.

The increase is mainly due to my commute length, which got longer by 9 miles a day in Oct 2007, and longer and more frequent weekend rides in 2008.

Awesome commute.

You did it with slicks? I as well have not been able to afford knobbies so I know what it feels like, luckily it hasn't been too bad here.

Semi-slicks. The Marathon Plus has a little bit of a tread pattern, just enough that I was able to ride 95% of the way. I don't think it could have worked on straight slicks.

The guy I met during the other 5% recommended, "When you get home, have a goddamn good drink," which suggestion I have taken.

Lol. I figured they had to have some sort of tread pattern...nicely done. A toast to your success :beer::beer:

Thank you, thank you. And I got to promise my three-year-old we'd have to clean it again, so everyone wins.

Hey, I forgot to post this morning. I think.

Anyway, it was 56 and scattered clouds. The ground was still wet from rain yesterday. It was a very easy commute in a t-shirt and shorts, even on my Raleigh 3-speed. Very pleasant 70 degree temps in the afternoon. I wanted to get out of work early, but since I'm taking all of next week off too I had to take care of several things that came up at the last minute, so I just did about 10 miles in the afternoon when I was hoping to do about twice that.

I have to ride the 3-speed until my hybrid gets new cranks due to the 1997 Shimano recall that I just found out about. Well, I could also ride one of my 80s road bikes but none of them is really fit to ride. I could ride the old Olympic 12 but the frame is bent; I haven't had a chance to get the other two roadworthy yet.

Friday was my "long" commute (17 miles each way) and nice winter temps (56F). I was on track for my fastest ever ride in right up until I flatted about 2 miles from work. That was on a 2-lane country road with no shoulder and ditches or tall weeds alongside. By the time I walked the bike to somewhere I could safely fix it, it was less than a mile to work anyhow and I was already very late to work. I decided to deal with the flat later and just finish walking in. I ended up just mooching a ride home and picked up the bike Saturday when running errands. It needed to go to the LBS for a 30-day new bike checkup anyhow so I let them fix it the tire along with some other tweaks. I haven't changed a flat for probably 20 years and it took me an hour back then. I just didn't have that kind of time trying to finish stuff up before the holidays.

I did email one of the other bike commuters at work asking him to supervise me at lunchhour while I changed the flat myself (to give me a few tips to speed it up!) and to also retrieve the floor pump stashed in the mens lockerroom, but he was unavailable.

The ride in was great. I'm back at it after a week away from work and cycling.

Drivers were polite, the weather was in the high 60s (F), and I had occasional brutal headwinds counteracted by catching a higher number of greenlights than usual.

I got to work about 25 minutes earlier by taking a longer road route rather than the shorter but far hillier bike path route.

I passed a couple of lycraed-up folks on really pretty bikes (yes, going in the same direction) but thankfully for my ego, my route took a turn immediately after I passed them. :D

I'm still cooling down from my ride as I type this and, let me tell you, I feel GREAT. It was nice to get back in the saddle today.

Oh, I've finally passed that threshold where you feel crummy when you don't ride and where you feel great when you do ride. I'm finally addicted. :thumb:

i've only been "commuting" to Church choir rehearsals and Deaconate meetings so far (15 mi r/t). I showed up to the Christmas Concert reharsal by car and just about everyone in the choir asked me if I biked in.

Someday I'll be that hardcore, but there were 8 inches of snow on the ground....

I brought my friend to hear the rehearsal. He lives in Davis, CA and bikes to work. He was cracking up at what a celebrity I am around church just for riding a bike. Totally normal to him. Not so common in the wet and snowy northeast I95 corridor, I guess.

I rode to my group ride today -- does that count as a commute? Saved me about 25 miles of driving, and stretched out my ride to 64 miles. After the crappy weather this week, I needed some saddle time. It was supposed to be sunny today, but the clouds never cleared and the roads were wet for the entire ride. I can't complain though because it didn't rain during my ride, but started pouring about 30 minutes after I got home.

Mid 40's and dry. Nice Ride.

Haven't posted in a while. Well I haven't driven to work since August and have been riding my bike since May. The weather is a total trial and error thing for sure! One thing I have learned is it is better to leave the house with too many layers than not enough. Granted I don't live in the cold temps some of you do but it is still cold at 6 A.M. Now time to update my greenlight.

I am still having fun...

No more commutes for me till Jan 5th. Burning up the last of my vacation days. Neeneeerr Neeeeneeeeerr Neeeneeeerr :lol:

Did go on a 30 mile ride with Atlanta Bike Campaign today. Ran from Little 5 Points out to Stone mountain and back. Little blustery but it was a fun ride. Plan to ride everyday the next two weeks but X-man eve and day. Going to eat like a viking those days and lay around rubbing my belly.

Alright already, I'm convinced!--it's winter: 18F/-8C with a steady 20+mph headwind all the way in. And since we'd had a fair amount of rain right through the weekend up to Sunday morning, I had studs on to boot. Almost didn't have a low enough gear... :o

37° here, with 20-25 mph wind gusts. The temp felt good.. but the winds were awful at times. Supposed to be in the low 50's for a nice ride home. I have to bring christmas gifts in tomorrow, so I wont ride in tomorrow :(

I love the light traffic though.. yes everyone stay home!! Makes my commute that much nicer.

Holy freakin crap! 0F, -20 windchill with a headwind out of the west at around 15mph, gusting to I AM A FREAKIN IDIOT TO BE RIDING TODAY mph. OK, I conceed...NOW it's FREAKIN COLD!

I was dressed ok for it though...Grumpy Old Men hat, balaclava, goggles, log sleeve wool base, 2 wool sweaters, Yellowjacket shell, wool long johns, patrol pants, thin and thick wool socks, Answer boots, glove liners and ski gloves.

Every car that passed me gave me a honk, two actually stopped and asked if I wanted a ride, everyone here at work is looking at me like I'm nuts (it's my first winter at this company).

Temps should be up near 20 for the ride home...and a tailwind. :D

We have over 2 feet of snow, drifts to 4 feet and temps like Chips's. Not worth it, but I drove my bike route just to check out the prospects for tomorrow...

The right lane is still buried, my dangerous part that has a bike lane, buried...and everything else is chocolate mush...not looking good.

Chilly here in Eastern NC (low 30s).

Lovely ride, though, as the Marines are mostly gone for the holiday and traffic was nonexistent.