Great ride home last night. Tempature was around 77(F) and low humidity.

The ride in was nice. A bit cool with temps in the mid 50's(F). Nice and quiet again, the only sound was the gears shifting on my bike.

Cool ride in this morning again. Feeling pretty strong like I can push harder even in a headwind. Like the ride home last night I surprised myself. Brisk headwind (mostly to my left) and I still managed to maintain my 31km/h 100rpm pace. Legs felt sore but not painful. This morning I took it a little easy until I spotted another roadie and tried to bridge the gap, didn't go too well. I have a lot more training/riding to do. Metric century planned for tomorrow morning. Looking forward to it as long as it doesn't rain!

This morning was my first unburdened commute in quite some time. I got a trailer on Tuesday, hauled two weeks of supplies to work on Wednesday, had stuff that required a backpack yesterday, and then today... nothing but the usual minimal roadside tools, keys, $30 cash, and a cellphone in the back of my jersey. 68 degrees, SSE winds at 7 mph resulted in my best time so far, a 20.2 mph moving average for my 12.4 mile commute. It was a good time.

What's up with Segways on "non-motorized vehicle only" bike trails? Especially ones that don't move over when you honk your horn at them... Stopping to chew them out seems like a waste of time; water bottle shower? Call the cops?

Good job!

Yech segways are just gross, but at least they are electric.

I'd tell them: you know, motorized vehicles are not permitted on these trails. And i will report ya'll to the authorities if i see you again.

Any other day, if I arrived at work breathing heavily, coated in a sweaty sheen, hair sticking out crazily in all directions, shoes covered in dirt and dust, and blood streaming down my leg...well, I and my coworkers would be very worried about my state of mind.

When it's a day I've just ridden my bike 11-12 miles to get there, my coworkers still question my sanity, but I feel a lot better about myself. :) I'm just glad I live in Southern California where I can do this sort of thing year round--barring earthquakes, West Nile mosquito attack-swarms, or "ash days" during wildfire season when you don't just see or taste the air, you also wash the air off your body when you get home.

The blood, by the way, is from gouging my calf on one of the pedals, and not from fighting off some rabid pack of dogs or something, although I was thinking of trying to pass it off as an X-Games injury.

2 miles left to arrive to work today, (riding my usual route), discovered that the whole road was blocked due to heavy excavation (!), what a f....! I asked politely to the guy apparaently in charge if I could go jump around the fences, he blatantly told me no!
So I had to go back and take a deviation of 2 extra miles, gave an little longer work out than expected, which included overtaken a Hwy. risky though.
Corsaire

You don't have to live in socal to do that everyday. You think blood is intimidating, try ice hanging from your chin...

Nice ride today. I took a little different route when I got to the city. I rode up over "Flag Hill" to 10th Ave and the back on my normal route at 7th St. It was a little shorter, but included the fairly steep climb. Took off work after about an hour and headed home on the normal route. Saw 3 dogs roaming. Only one of which showed any interest in pacing with me.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Bob

Great ride today. Temperatures were perfect, no headwinds, and the lights were switching pretty quickly when I hit the reds. I hooked up with another commuter on the way, and we chatted for a bit. He showed me a new shortcut throught he university to mix it up a little.

We parted ways, and 10 yards from the driveway into my office, I spotted a patch of broken glass too late to dodge it. I prayed that my magic tires would just repel the shards and I could go about my business.

NOPE. No such luck. I heard the PSSSSSS, unclipped, and started braking. I looked down to see the rear tire acting as a Slime cannon, shooting a pile of the stuff onto the ground. I've decided not to use Slime again, but I'll have to patch this tire up before replacing it tonight. I guess I know how I'm spending my lunch hour.

Fortunately, I didn't spill like I did when the front tire blew on me.

Great ride, cool breeze and beautiful sky. First day of riding in with my wife and son (she works at his school). Then I rode the rest of the way in to downtown Atlanta. Life is grand! (boy, are those endorphins still working...)

Rainy day here with temps in the low 60s. Wore my rain gear & really needed it. To bad I didn't remember my booties, shoes & feet got pretty wet. Don

I'll take 0' F and dry over sub 60 and wet any day. To get really cold, try 45 and downpour after midnight.

heh, had my first flat in 3000km's on friday too. i guess i shoulda kept that tire strip on (had a plastic thing that goes between the tube and tire). but then my rear tire was a hutchy carbon race tire, very soft, and it was gonna happen... patched up the tire and went off, was glad to see my mini-pump and tire patch kit finally made themselves useful to lug around.

sd

Tough ride today... I rode to a soccer field 18 km away to join some friends, played for 4 1/2 hours, and on the ride back I noticed my rear fender was rubbing on my tire. I didn't have the time to fix it (was working soon), so I rode on. By the end of the ride, I was huffing and puffing just to keep my speed above 10 km/h. Probably my toughest ride of the summer in some ways. I barely had enough time to eat before riding to work... in a car. I hate driving.

Woah! easy there our Chris. Sorry to hear you had a bad one.

After a really hot and unpleasently humid night (during which I got precious little sleep) I awoke to pouring rain. The ride made for a refreshing interlude, but then I got to work..

Cheers,
Ed

I had the day off Friday, decided to head north on my bike to practice riding hills. An expected 3 hour ride turned to 4+ hours when I got lost. Arrived home dehydrated and sunburned. Had a great workout, though! :) Biked to work Saturday and Sunday; the weather has been unseasonably, delightfully cool.

This past Saturday I did a 90km ride which I thought it was a metric but my polar doesn't display individual ride distances. If it does I haven't figured it out yet.

I thought the ride in this morning was going to be a slow one. I found though that after having the Sunday off I was still quite strong and plowed on in to work. Now the ride home could be a different story. Pretty damn cool for August. I wish it would warm up bu the forecast is calling for rain all week! Oh joy... :mad:

[edit]...Oh well at least I didn't do the tear down and overhaul I was planning this weekend.

The ride in was great… very quite and cool… 77 degrees. The ride home will be a much different story… at least it will not be 100+. The mold count has been off the scale… my sinuses were killing me this morning. Plus, there is chance of rain through Thursday… oh joy.:rolleyes: Cheers :)

There's a bill under consideration in Massachusetts to exempt Segways - excuse me, "electric personal assistive mobility devices" - from the "motorized vehicle" definition. Woo. (Link to bill: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht01550.htm )

Today was my worst commute yet!

My wife had an early meeting at work, and I had to deliver my son to his mother, in our truck! Waaaaaah!

I guess I'll have to go riding after work while wifey's at the gym.

Hey guys! After a long long long time off the bike, I climbed back on and did my commute again. Since we last spoke, I now have a new baby girl, and we just bought a new house.

My new commute is exactly 1/2 as long as my old one. (Now it's 7.5 miles). Its not nearly as scenic, and its a bit more hairy in one spot. It definately felt good to ride again. I think I'll make it a habit ;).

It turns out they already passed something like this in MN:

Subd. 90. Electric personal assistive mobility device.
"Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a
self-balancing device with two nontandem wheels, designed to
transport not more than one person, and operated by an electric
propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to
15 miles per hour.

I had thought that Segways were faster than that, but after looking through segway.com, it looks like they're only up to 12.5 mph. I can tow a trailer behind a bicycle a lot faster than that. I guess I'll have to play nice (but they sure do take up a lot of space, almost as much as a rollerblader and they're even slower...)

Our rainy weather went away Sunday Morning & we are back into a hot cycle again.
54F at 6AM today meant wearing a long sleeve jersey on my morning commute but by 3:30 PM it was 96F. Hard to work up much speed when its that hot. I saw lots of other cyclists on the way in this morning but none at all on the way home. I was the only "mad dog" riding in the heat. Tomorrow I have to bring a small Bar B Que in for our annual picnic. I'm considering driving in to deliver the grill then return home & make my regular bicycle commute for the day.