Hmm... only a Darren Burke, but he lives in NYC and is from Ireland. :)

yah, I love my panasonic. I'm aware that they're well enough regarded. Mine clearly did hard time in NYC before I picked it up at a Lower East Side junk shop/ thrift store for $40. it's an '81-ish dx2000. Mine is scratched to heck and generally pretty rough, so I'm hoping it has a little of the urban camouflage thing going on.

My total travel today, including my Just completed "Commute" to church choir in the next town over, was about 22 miles of riding all told and three miles of walking. The main thing that is sore are my upper arms.

The next snag I've got to worry about is picking up my kids from Day Care two days next week. My wife's put her financial foot down and won't let me get a folder so I can pick them up on the way home and take the bus. I could threaten to take them 8 miles on busy roads in the kiddie trailer.... :rolleyes:

First day in a while with no significant wind. It was frigging beautiful. I celebrated by making a little Tour de Cambridge before finally heading home.

Nice morning. Slight headwind. Quite warm. 21mins 10.79kms Avg 29.8kms. I want to get under 20mins. First time this week under 22mins mostly because of the southerly wind.

:lol: That's funny every once in a while I just shoot over into Cambridge and ride around Harvard Square for a diversion. In spring and summer it's great to stop and get a beer somewhere and walk about before I ride the rest of the way home.

And Welcome to STANDALONE!

My commute was the usual leave at the last minute. Rode in on the streets and a nice ride home on the dark bike path with tons of ice but it was really fun- lots of rabbits! I also have to do an afternoon location change twice a week and ride about a mile out and back to do that. Rode to the market after I got home and did a little late night shopping.

hmmm, haven't done it yet. Freezing rain with about 3-4 inches of snow on top of it and a winter storm warning. Should be an interesting ride! :thumb:

^^^Yikes! I'm hoping we're done with all of that around here. Temps around the freezing mark with a light southerly breeze (for me an unusual cross wind). Just enough to make my fingers feel cold--but then I'm easy that way.

And I, too, join in welcoming the newcomers (either to commuting or to BF or both), and also throw one out there to you lurkers, too. I remember when...:D

The commute was an adventure. 15 degrees F, a heavy blanket of snow already down and more coming, unplowed roads. I'm still trying to figure this winter riding thing out and discovered today I need a pair of goggles. Other than that, nice and comfy.

I might add that the shuffle on the ride spit out the Annie Lennox song "Why". :)

My answer... because any ride is a good ride.

It was an idiot parade today. If they weren't blocking lanes, changing lanes AND then blocking them, or pulling out abruptly in front of fast moving traffic, they were riding me into the curb so they could stop illegally in the bus lane. It was like a convention of morons.

Rebuilt wheel on touring bike felt great - solid and quiet. Fairly warm this morning, low 30s. Supposed to get into the 50s but might be raining this afternoon.

Standalone- congrats on the first bike commute!

I had a good ride in today, 60ish degrees and a little humid, headwind, which is fine on the way in since it should mean I'll get a nice tailwind for my uphill ride home.

Coldest commute yet at -28C when i left my house. Have i earned my winter commuting badge yet? I was actually quite toasty with the exception of my toes.

My bike computer did not like the cold. I pressed a button to see the time and nothing happened. So i pressed it again thinking my gloved hand failed properly depress it... nothing, after a couple more attempts i give up. I looked down on it a few minutes later to see that it had changed 3 or 4 functions (probably the exact number of times i pressed the button). I'd like to think it was reporting the speed too slowly but i know it wasn't.

Great ride in this morning. I've ridden in when it was 17 degrees so now that it's 36 in the morning it feels like a spring day!

Nice. 40F -ish and calm otherwise, uneventful. Oh yeah, hit 26 mph on a stop light sprint from 15th and Independance to Constitution. I did it to accomodate the traffic that had been behind me, keeps them from honking and zipping around me.

Nice ride to the station this morning, only I annoyed the conductor by not having my ticket ready. Same guy as yesterday. I look like a scrub in my raggedy wool commuting gear, so I'd better make nice with him before I try to convince him to let me on with a 26" folder I found for cheap! :)

And thank you buzzman and heather!

28F and icy. 2 hr school delay and not my turn w/ the kids so I just went to work myself. No real slips (kind of morning that makes me wonder about marathon winters; if I didn't dislike my schwalbe snow-studs so, for my conditions, I'd still have them on but...)

pleasant riding this morning
i would like to put some skinny tires back on but it may be too early for that
:thumb:

40*F, light wind but the rain had stopped from last night.
First ride with my new Garmin Edge...I found out I was pretty accurate on my miles and speed calculation all this time...kind of good news but I had hoped I was going faster then that ;)

First ride of the new season for me!!! Yippie!!! My heart rate was 20bpm above normal. I am really out of shape. Yikes! But unbelievably happy to be riding into work again.

It was a windy bugger this morning. maybe 20-25mph out of the west. Winds have now calmed down a bit, and it's supposed to rain this afternoon.:D Gonna be fun on a bun!

30F degrees and not too windy. I had some sleet for two or three minutes, but it didn't matter. I picked up the pace a bit today and shaved two or three minutes off. I think I'm down to about 53 minutes to work, which is uphill. It's a 10 mile trip. Overall, it was pleasant. I'm feeling strong going uphill.

an okay ride in this morning but witnessed a strange incident. I'm riding along down Comm Ave. and it's a section where I have to take the whole right lane due to parked cars and double parked cars and trucks that I'll soon have to move into the left lane to pass.

I'm booking along about 18 mph and I hear coming up behind me a high powered car that's going about 50 I move over and let him squeeze by me and he barely slows but then traffic slows him to not much faster than me. Eventually I catch up to him while he's in the left lane and I'm in the right lane and it's a guy in his 50's in a black BMW on his cell phone. I ignore him and keep riding. He weaves through traffic, around some construction and guns it again. There's another cyclist a 1/2 block ahead of me and he pins him to a truck!- just wedges him but I don't even know how much actual contact there is because they've both just come to a halt and then the BMW peels out and goes. The cyclist pulls over (to gather himself?) I say, "hey, you okay?" and the cyclist (messenger bag, road bike/maybe fixie) is like, "yeah, fine." no big deal. I said, " the guy just almost took me out, too" I was tempted to chase the jerk down and we both actually did catch him at the next light but since the other cyclist didn't seem too interested in making a big deal of it neither was I and off we went. But whew!

The ride home, on the bike path , was relatively uneventful. The ice is melting.:)

buzzman, I too was almost taken out by a cellphone talking BMW driver today. I was walking on the sidewalk when the guy pulled into the driveway I was about to cross and almost took me and another guy out. The cop this happened in front of seemed more interested in making sure he was cleared to park in the garage than telling him to put the cellphone down and drive safely.

not riding in today
woke up late
sore all over
company moving today will need to be very physical, maybe
appointments after work in distant cities
excuses excuses
hey, I got the bike out and even built a custom rear reflector mount

Man oh man, what a nice ride in this morning! 45F/+7C with light to moderate southerlies--just flat out balmy!

Of course, if it were August I'd be wimpering... :D

good ride
 

Today was very nice. It was about 30 F (-1 C) and it felt warm. I overdressed a bit, but not too bad. It is supposed to turn crappy with a cold front this afternoon, and hopefully I get out while the weather is still warm. Anohter month or so, and the warm days will return.