started my ride without my neckwarmer (-3c/27f), got to a redlight and grabbed it out of my backpack for the rest of the ride. 0c must be my threshold for a neckwarmer.

Do you all find that commuting by bicycle makes you more likely to hate your fellow man? Since my "commute" is less than a mile I usually just walk it, and it's great and peaceful and I get to work in a good mood. I've just started riding my bike instead, and now I get to work in a bad mood, hating all those stupid stopsign-running jerks with their cell phones and their SUVs. They stop for pedestrians, but for a bicycle with the right of way? Forget it.

Maybe this explains that heart attack statistic from the other thread.

Just rode to school. It's amzing how good you feel after even a couple mile of riding. No need for coffee. I just ride to get the same effect. The commute was great today becuase I rode during non rush hour traffic. Drivers were nice and gave me plenty of room.

On the contrary, my commute almost always calms me. The majority of drivers are polite and courteous to me. The jerks are usually quickly forgotten. In reality, drivers are human, too. Think about it - interaction between a cyclist and a driver is just another form of the same communication you have been (or will be) experiencing all day, just a more simple version!

40F @ 6AM with just a few high clouds & bright stars above. It was only up to 48F by lunch time. We got some pretty heavy rain later & when I rode home, it was still raining steadily but had warmed up to 52F. Traffic was light & courteous. (edit)I forgot to mention that I suffered a chain drop/jam on the way in this morning: A quick, multigear shift made the chain drop & jam between the cog & the seat stay. I was able to coast down hill & up onto the sidewalk next to the I-5 onramp. Tightest jam I ever saw but thanks to good illumination from cars entering the freeway, I was able to free it up & be on my way without completely removing the rear wheel.(edit) Don

good ride home. Took a longer way home, but missed a turn because it looked a little nasty, so ended up riding an extra few miles. Got a good workout.

After dinner tonight I went to goodwill and found some almost new Diadora biking shoes for $3.75! they fit perfectly!

Ride home was great tonight - I would have doubled back again, but by the time I got home it was getting dark and my light, as I have mentioned, is not so much a "light" as it is a "slightly less dark". The good news is, I picked up a new cateye at the bikestation - we fished through several trek light packages with batteries included to scavenge so I could test it before I bought it, and I was really happy with it. Most of my riding so far has been on very well-lit roads and a fairly well-lit bike path, but the path has patches where the lights are down for one reason or another, and it can get pitch black before you know it. My original light was pronounced "pathetic" by everyone working at the bike station today (we'd gathered together to do the test, and it ended up in a comparison with like ten different lights laid out to try), but the cateye should help with both the seeing and being seen. It's not the verybright EL500, but it's still pretty darn bright.

I'm thinking about getting up early tomorrow and riding north for a while before I head south to work. It's supposed to be another warmish, pretty day.

Long day at work . all most 12 hour long . But good ride to work and home .Have a good day ..

Nice ride this morning. We are starting to see some Autumn colour in the landscape and there was a definite chill in the air. The first frosts cannot be far away.

Cheers,

Ed

Cool morning with fog so thick I couldn't see the white line on th side of the road. I was quite wet when I got to work, the ride was enjoyable in spite of the fog, traffic was light and the drivers seemed to give me a lot more room then usual, probably do to the poor visibility. The sun is forcasted to shine for the afternoon commute so it should be a good ride home. have a nice day all.

Same here. Lots of fog this morning. My training ride (it's study week so no students whining to me about how much work I give them) was rather "froggy" with lots of mist on the glasses. It was -- not surprisingly -- humid and warm as a result. It's kinda nice to do my commute ride without worrying about getting somewhere... ;)

6:30am, 32f, early enough to require lights and reflective gear. 10.5 miles later and I'm in my office contemplating how to keep my feet warm. They feel like ice cubes. Otherwise it was a pleasant ride. I get a kick out of the incredulous looks from people in their cars.

I had a nice ride in this morning, dark, 42F, but nice. We still have some leaves on the trees and what's left is very pretty. Of course you can't see them in the morning but my lunch run and ride home it should be nice. Daylight savings this weekend will change that a little. I'm feeling weaker when I ride lately and I can't figure it out, hmmmm....

Hi guys, I haven't "checked in" in a while.

The seasons are changing. Got suited up wearing my Goretex pants and jacket yesterday and today. Cool but dry weather. I started commuting on my Catrike Speed and so far it is a lot of fun. Left work a little late last night, and got home when it was dark. So riding at night was interesting on it to say the least. Good thing I had lights. Getting lots of stares and comments about the bike too. One dude saw me this morning smiled and said "pimp ride buddy", I showed him my metal by giving the "heavy metal devil horns" hand gesture, and rode on with a smile.

l8r

Left much earlier than usual this morning (5:15AM). Was nice though because there was hardly any traffic to worry about. Temp was a decent -3C. Will put the slicks back on tonight now that the roads are bare and no ice. Just watch it will snow tomorrow now that I said I'd put the slicks on. Oh well!

Lots of fog is an understatement lol. Fog was dissipating up at Richmond Hill but once I started going down on Yonge st. it just got thicker and thicker. It was like biking through a cloud (which was kind of cool when I got downtown with taller buildings).

45F, gentle rain & a bit of fog rolling off the lake at 6AM so I took the "Yellow Flash" (Centurion with yellow strobes fore & aft plus a 55watt headlight) Trundled in to work & was pleased by the wide berth passing cars gave. 1/2 way to work that gentle rain turned to a downpour & I just rode on through. I've been having trouble with the hearing in my left ear coming & going so I scheduled a Dr. appointment to find out what is going on in there! The sky was clearing up & it was 55F for my commute home.
Be careful out there folks.

Souper-Douper:
Congratulations on the shoes, I got my brand new Carnacs from the same source for $3.95 a couple years ago. Have been checking back since without finding any more shoe bargains but when they have some, the price is right.

60F on the way home. Met my wife at the grocery store, then went home a new way. It's a little further, but probably takes the same time since I eliminate a left turn at a light that doesn't know about bicycles.

I think my brain has somehow shifted into a different gear. Lately, the harder the ride, the more I can feel it, the better I feel about it when I'm done. Tonight, I feel really really good.

Late getting out of a Get Out the Vote volunteer meeting; it was dark, and chilly, and wet from the rain that had stopped about five minutes earlier. At the bikestation I discovered that my handy keycard would get me in to my bike, but not through the second locked door to my locker. Where all my bike clothes were. So, I rolled my (white, of course) work pants up past my knees, clipped my lights in, and rode home. No tights, no nice warm wicking jersey, no nice fuzzy sweats over the nice warm wicking jersey and tights.

I was really surprised to find that:
a) totally dark wasn't too dark
b) drizzly wet wasn't too wet
c) 45* F wasn't too cold

Somewhere around Belmont, I realized I'd been paying so much attention to my cadence that I'd lost an entire beach. I'd been waiting for it, dreading it, because it's always colder and windier on the beach stretches, but I'd breezed through the last one without even noticing it.

And then, right after Recreation, there was badness. My legs, which had hurt a bit but not too much, turned to jelly and started to hurt a *lot*. My ability to steer started to suffer. I started to think I had misjudged my location and that the beach was still coming up. I was breathing okay, deep and steady, not gasping, but I suddenly had to force my feet down again every time they came up. My stomach, which was fine before, started to feel weird and hollow.

I still had two miles to go and getting home required this intense level of concentration -- and was accomplished mainly through willpower. I've been here long enough to know that's a pretty fair description of bonking, but how could I possibly have bonked on a six mile ride when I'd had a latte and a cookie an hour before I started? Is that even possible? The ride seemed pretty tough right from the start, but through most of it my pace was steady, in spite of the weather and the headwind. It was only at the end that things went a bit wonky.

Anyway, it still feels like a great ride, because I made myself finish it and just knowing I can do that feels really cool. Knowing I didn't let the cold or dark or wet or lack of proper bikewear stop me, that feels pretty cool too. =)

Warm! High 40s(F) and almost no wind. Windbreaker & shorts. I left around 7AM and it was just getting to twilight. The woods through which the trail runs was gloomy. I kept my front and back blinkies on but only saw a couple of pedestrians. Used the headlight briefly, too. Lots of leaves in certain places.

Supposed to be upper 20s tonight. Tomorrow will be back to warm clothing!

Merryish, try eating foods with a lot of potassium.

-7c/19f calm morning. I approached a stop sign and out of the corner of my eye, see a car coming, so I look up and it's a full moon just above the horizon. It was amazing, it was so big and bright, i wish i could have seen it away from the city lights. Then I started thinking about the blackout that lasted over a day in ontario last summer. I will never forget that night. It was so pitch black and quiet, all you could see were the stars. Watching the reflection of mars off the lake, just awesome. But to sum it up, nice commute.

Good commute this am. Zero celcius with little wind. It seems to be taking longer these days to get to work however it could be because of the studded knobby tires. I pumped them up to 65 psi since all the snow melted but I think it still takes more power to turn the wheels. It sure is a lot fewer people on the road; all the better to hear those studded tires rolling down the pavement.

Have a Good One!

Put the slicks back on now that the ice is gone. Amazing how quiet the slicks are in comparison to the Nokians. It was a cool -8C this morning. Thought I'd put the shell on with a long sleeve cotton shirt and I was too warm. Will go back to my fleece and breathable mid layer tomorrow.