No bike commute today as I had to drive up to Fife for a going away tailgate party for an old friend. I got back to work just in time to enjoy the leftovers from a retirement sendoff for an officer in our field office. Probably take a week of commuting to burn off all the carbs from today. Don

kinda humid kinda warm...sweatin' all the way to my office...my back is still killing me, not a very good day to commute...

anyway tomorrow iit's gonna be damn 9 hours journey (by bus) to northen state i'm gonna miss my ride for a while.

16 degrees C this morning at 7.15 am. Got away a little late, and copped the notoriously slow Queensland traffic lights all the way. As a consequence, most of the actual riding was done at around 34km/h or thereabouts. Still trying to figure out why a particular intersection in Southport has a four-way stop sign.

Raced a thunderstorm home. Made it with about 5 minutes to spare before the storm hit. :D

Humid ride home yesterday. Today does not look to much better. Warm and humid expectations for today too.

Beautiful day for riding. 70 degrees, no wind (rare for Oklahoma). Ordered a rack and trunk yesterday. Cannot wait to get out of the sweat inducing backpack.

How Was The Commute Today, or rather, How I Did Survive The Many Perils To Life And Limb During The Harrowing Four-Mile Journey:

Around the corner from my house, I ride along the edge of a long, narrow park. The street is narrow, not quite two lanes. I came up to a car that was going very slowly and not particularly straight. My first thought is that the driver is drunk. As I got up to his wheel to pass, I noticed that he was reading a paperback! I waited for him at the next stop sign and yelled through the window, "Hey, close the book and pay attention to driving!"

Sheesh.

Okay, about a mile from there, I hit 21st Street a straight, three lane shot across Midtown. I don't see it, but I can smell burning oil and hear a loud buzzing. It sounded like a poorly tuned chain saw engine. Which it was, attached to a scooter with a pimply-faced teenager on it. I pulled along side and said--in a friendly way--"Is that as fast as that thing goes?"

Unfortunately, I think I startled Pimply-Faced Scooter Teen and when he turned to look at me, he veered slightly. So, now I'm having to veer towards the center lane and traffic. I just shook my head, shifted into the big ring, and dropped PFST. And I was so hoping for a bit of a race to the office!

Oh, and then once in Midtown, I had to dodge an oblivious cell-phone talker.

But now I'm here, safe and intact.

that brought a tear to my eye just reading it - what a great Dad you are

been way too long since I posted - I don't know why - I just got out of the habit

Nice commuting year so far - I am ahead of last years ytd mileage total which was one of my goals, aided by the very nice Spring we have had in DC compared to last years monsoon - I do need to get my bike serviced though

After more than a year w/ no punctures I got two in 12 hours and realized my rear tire was fecked - since the new one went on there have been no problems

Can I vent about a disturbing trend I've noticed in DC where bikers are cycling around with those in-ear, earbud headphones - VERY VERY dangerous - a guy I was trying to pass yesterday veered right into my path because he couldn't hear my "On your left". When I tried to point out to him that him wearing earphones was dangerous, he told me where to stick my complaint - more and more bikers are doing this - please stop :(

I have discoverd an interesting tech. to driving in traffic. I ride down a 4 lane divided road on part of my ride to work. The road has about 3 feet of pack limestone on each side for bikes to ride on. There are numerous intersection on this road. The intersection have right turning lanes at them. This causes a problem if I stay on the path because if the right turn light is green and cars zoom to make the light and turn in front of me even though they see me going straight.

The method goes like this. As I am approching the intersection I leave the path and merge into traffic through the right turn lane over to the first straight through lane. I end up passing all the cars in this lane on their right side. As soon as I get to the light it is about to turn green and I can proceed right throught it.

Does anyone think this is a dangerous move or do you think this is the techniue I should use.

this is what I do as well on my commute home - it is a little dangerous but so far so good

Solidly overcast today, temps down into the 50s (f) and quite windy. It's bike to work day! I didn't really remember this morning til I got to work, so I didn't go out of my way to check out the commute stations. Anyway every day is bike to work day for me :)

So I'm off on vacation for a couple weeks, so no commuting for me for a while.

About the only thing dangerous about it that I can see is the fact that you're on the path to begin with.

Colder this morning with thick rolling clouds & a steady breeze all day, supposed to rain so I wore my yellow top & rode with fenders but by lunchtime, no rain came so I took a chance & rode no fenders in the afternoon. Still wore my rain gear just in case I was wrong that way the stripe up my back would be on my slicker instead of my clothes. Its still cloudy & windy tonight but doubt it will rain. Don

Overcast, with mild headwind this morning. Legs still burning from yesterdays 80 mile adventure. Took it easy. Nice ride :)

First decent ride for a while today - last week I was feeling decidedly under the weather with a mystery cold/virus thing. It was good to be back on the long scenic route.

Cheers,

Ed

Temperature just above freezing. Light rain/snow mix the whole way in. Moderate north(head) winds. We had 3 inches of snow yesterday and rain all weekend long. Killed my training rides. Next weekend already looks like a wash as well with more rain. Well, rain for the whole week for that matter!

Well, I've been out of the loop here for a week. I was in training all last week in downtown St Paul. The training was boring but the bike commute was great, 42 miles/67 Kilometers round trip, every day. I lucked out on the weather for the most part I only had rain Wednesday PM and part of Friday. Now I'm back to my regular routine, cool this morning 44F/6C and cloudy (what's new). It should be a dry lunch run and ride home this afternoon... ah, maybe.

Gratified to feel a bit of the snap returning to my legs, so I just hammered the ride in. Looking forward to the afternoon: my wife's taking the kids to Grampa's tonight so I may get in a 40 mile ride out there tonight.

In Minnesota there is actually a "3 foot passing" law. It's a tough one to enforce but I have heard of an instance or two where someone was ticketed for driving to close.

Whoa, great story, thanks for sharing.

First commute to and from in quite a while. I have done a couple of half commutes but this was the first in several months of riding both ways. Nice weather with temperatures in the 70's AM and 80's PM. Traffic was tolerable. Will try again tomorrow if the thunder and lightning stay away in the AM.

Quite foggy at 6:00 AM this morning but by lunchtime we had a sunny day with a light breeze. When I got home this afternoon, it was75F

The ride home was cool. Temps struggling to get to 50F. Head wind all the way home. sure made the climb at the end a chore. Forcast is for chance of rain every day this week. We are above normal for precip and below normal for temps for the month.

Was nice to be dry when I got home for a change. :D

18 degrees C and overcast this morning, expected to hit 25 C today. This is what we call "winter" out here folks. They're promising late rain today, and I really hope we get a deluge.

The ride this morning started out dry but ended up wet as I rode into some rain soaked streets. I missed the rain but the streets were pretty wet. Of and on showers all day today. Time for the rain suit.

Finally met another commuter on the way in today. Said he was a member of the board, but I forgot to ask him for his screen name. So if you see this, Hi!