made the commute today from Brooklyn to Midtown Manhattan in about 35 mins. Not bad with a light rain sprinkling over salt and slush crusted streets. Got to work completely soaked though, and covered with road grime. Poor bike looks even worse...

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I got to work safely and relatively on-time. That's all I can say.

34 and no fog this morning. Started to rain just as I was rolling up to work. I jumped in the shower and as soon as I was fully soaped up, the water pressure started to dropping and within 30 seconds it was gone. Somebody had been repairing the water line the night before and hadn't properly turned the water supply back on. Luckily I had my phone in the bathroom and I called my coworker at his desk to inform him of my situation. He tried to get me to pay him $20 bucks to fix it until he found out I was not amused, then went out and turned the water back on. Talk about being helpless. I'm glad that he was there to answer his phone.

I must have died and gone to heaven, we've been in the upper 40's F (maybe fifties today) and sunny the last few days! What a hoot! I'm getting extra miles in and wearing lighter clothing. This is really spoiling me. I hate to think about going back to our "normal" temps, it's going to be a rude awakening.

Same here, it is absolutely gorgeous outside. I rode my bike to work for the first time in a few months. I think I will take a detour on the way home.

Just from the rain and the melting snow?

47F, light rain & wind from the South at 6AM today. Really had to grit my teeth to get out into it but once I got moving, it wasn't so bad & the commute in was invigorating. Came home for the day at Noon. The sun was out & the wind was gusting from the West which gave me a headwind for 3/4 of the ride home. Have a good weekend all. Don

The Commute & the Furby from H-E-double-hockey-sticks
Morning commute was pretty good... -14c, bit of a cross wind, very slippery with my worn out studs.
Commute home was the most "technical" yet. -18c, 30km/h head wind, 4" of fresh/partially packed snow on top of the ice, snow & blowing snow, so I couldn't see were the ruts were.... spinning/sliding all the way home... averaged 8.7km/h :( (I walk at 5 to 7km/h if I'm in a hurry)

It took me 1hr & 20min to get home (summer rides are 25 minutes, winter rides have normally been 40 to 45 minutes)

I took the sidewalk in some places :eek: I'm very much against riding on sidewalks, but I was desperate to find at least minimal traction... definately getting the Nokians for next winter.

--- On a Lighter Note ---
Last night (~4:00am) my wife & I woke up to the sound of a "Ferby" McDonalds toy (this one plays a saxaphone) in the bathroom sink! I guess one of the kids got it wet & it short circuted & started to play... freaked us out.

I could not get the thing to shut up. I even tried drowning it :eek: I finally got fed up & threw it out the window onto the icy street... "crack".

This morning as I rode past the ferby I noticed it was STILL playing the saxapone! I put him in my pannier & headed for the river...

When I stopped on the bridge to give the little guy a swim, he was Still making music.... I suspect that this spring, some kid downstream will find a furby along the river bank & it will still work :D

Yesterday I rode the 4 miles to work in 32 degrees and overcast. Forecast was for Sun and highs in mid 40s, in two days it will be sunny and 50. HA. Came out of work to unexpected 5" of snow. I have a REI Novara Safari so it was no problem. Cars were traveling a lot slower so it was actually nicer than dry pavement. Felt great.

Manassas Virginia USA

ROFLOL! Oh man...the Furby from HELL! You should have kept him on the bike for company man! Imagine a icicle encrusted Furby commute bike! LOL! :eek:

Chilly, 25F, but nice ride. After this weekends warmup, most of the ice and snow is gone. A few patches remain. PM ride looks to be great, 50F. Groundhog was wrong....Spring is in the air

So, what with having a new baby and being two working parents and not being able to afford as many days of childcare as would be ideal, we have this set-up where, two days a week, I go in at 7:00, skip lunch, leave at 2:00, and come home to the baby, and my wife can work from 3:00 until whenever in the evening she gets hungry (9:00-ish). Notwithstanding the fact that I now have to get up at about 5:00 a.m., this arrangement has two good things going for it: (1) I get more quality time with my baby; and (2) I cross the bridge right around sunrise and get to see the Boston skyline in all its morning glory (sorry, pic taken with phone):

40F degrees this morning. A heat wave in Vermont!

First bike-commute in 2 weeks. The trail is still mostly covered with snow, but it's relatively smooth for the majority of the ride. I saw other bike tracks. One poor person was using skinny tires and dug trenches through the snow. Must have been tough-going!

Cool and partly cloudy, 45°F. Should be in the low 60s for the ride home! I am trying to get rid of this head cold: virus don't like exercise. Happy trails!

I'd have to title todays commute "Open Waters II", jinxed. You know how some days things just aren't clicking? Today's Monday so I put some air in my tires. 100 feet out of the driveway . . . BAM!!!-Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffff. Flat. Bad Omen. Not a good way to start the week. Hobbled back home and fixed the flat. Back on the road.

Last night I watched Open Waters, the movie about the couple on vacation who go scuba diving and get left in the middle of the ocean with hungry sharks. Before the dive, the dive instructor briefed the divers on the "Universal Signal for Distress", ie "HHHHEEEEEEEEELP", waving hands frantically over head. Today, I felt like I was in . . . Open Waters with hungry sharks nipping at my legs, in the form of moms in mini-vans rushing their kids to school. At one intersection, 4 lanes, stop light green, I had the right lane, traffic to my left. 90 degrees to my right, another 4 lanes. There is a car stopped in the right lane, one car impatiently whips around the stopped car to make a right on red in front of me. The next vehicle starts moving. They are close enough for me to see the mom and kids. She looks to her left, past me. I'm 45 degrees from her hood. She looks straight and guns it into my lane. I have very little room to move so with my left hand on the bars, I wave frantically with my right hand, the universal sign of distress. She sees me and brakes at the last instant. Whewwww.

I was jittery the rest of the commute. It seemed like every car door was opening in front of me, every car hesitating, threatening to cut across my path, resulting in instant death. But somehow I survived the sharks today on the . . . Open Streets.

Lovely commute again -1C, no winds, fully infated studded tires. Got to work pumped and fast. I love it.

Good commute this morning although just a little chilly.....-28C with a slight wind. Could easily have been much worse as in Saskatoon (2 hours north) they received 20cm of snow. How was the commute Clevernamehere? Anything over 5 cm and the risk is too great for me to accept. We only got a skiff of snow so the roads are in very good shape in my opinion.

Nice 16 mile commute this morning in foggy Portland/Vancouver. This was my first commute after a bike.vs.car two weeks ago, so a bit tense at times. Nonetheless, 36 oF and not a lot of traffic = good times! 8-D

A little sprinkly but a nice temperature. About 3 blocks from work, I noticed a funny, periodic sound coming from the front tire. I hoped it was a leaf but no! It was my tire going flat. Fortunately, I was close enough and the leak was slow enough to continue to the office. I'll deal with it tonight. Blah.

Well, we are back to reality, weather wise, back here in Minnesota, it was a little bit nippy this morning on my commute in (10F/-12C). It's lunch time as I write this and it hasn't warmed up a bit. Hmmmmm... the ride home afer work will be into the wind... oh goodie.

Had a scare on my ride home from work tonight. It was raining and I had my head down a bit trying to let the peak of my helmet shield my eyes from the rain. I see a black s.u.v. coming dowm the driveway of a factory so I hurry to get past and he drove right across my path. I skid sideways and hit him broadside.I bounce off the truck and land on my back in water. He stops about 15 feet away jumps out and runs back white as a ghost he gives me a hand up and and I see hes just a kid and he kept asking me if I was ok and if I wanted to go to hospital. I said I was ok . We looked my bike over and no problem there so we went on our ways. All I have is a skined elbow.

glad to hear you're ok. watch yourself/bike for the next couple days just in case, take it easy.


...friggin crap ride home tonight, even tho the weather was great

1st - some a-hole decides to pull a U-turn right in front of me in chinatown
2nd - another a-hole in a boxtruck tries to squeeze me into a parked van
3rd - wiiiiiide turning a-hole almost nails me at an intersection
4th - hidden door attack from parked SUV (this person actually looked before performing their action)

...how the hell does anybody ever make it home around here??
some days it just gets to be too much...

At last, with the light traffic predicted (due to post-Super-Bowl calling in sick), today was a good day to try the roads again. The week-ends warm weather had cleared the roadways well, only 3 places that were still only a lane & a half wide. One is about a half mile long, but it is doable. This has been my longest weather related break in commuting in almost 5 years. It sure feels good to be back riding.

SaskCyclist,
yah, we really got dumped on with snow. It started Friday pm & snowed most of the weekend. I rode home Fiday, but decided I couldn't afford 1hr & 20min each way Today, so I drove. (I always feel like such a quitter when I don't ride :( ).

Actually, today would have been ok for riding (doh!), at least on the main roads I could have rode in the tire tracks. We still have ice under the snow in a lot of areas... with my worn out Innova tires, it just doesn't work very well to ride in deep snow over ice.

Still not sure If I'll ride tomorrow. I mentor a grade 4 student on Tuesdays - leave work for around an hour courtesy of my company. I don't want to take advantage of their generosity by taking extra time to ride in bad weather. I'm hoping the city will clear the bike paths by Wednesday - they seem to be keeping up with the trails alot better than the roads.

Good ride to work and home.It started to rain on the way home . But still a good ride . Have a good nite .