Having some great commute weather lately. Mid 30s in the morning, 50s in the afternoon. Sunny, crisp air. Hardly any wind. The ice is off the lake so the aquatic birds are back. Great blue herons, cormorants, ducks. Not to mention Trail Hotties. :)

I should change my avatar.

So... you don't intend to ride through the summer looking like that?
Maybe I should rethink my wardrobe strategy! :)

So, what are you thinking of for your new avatar? I'd like to try to copy it :D

The ride was great. Warm enough to ditch the knee warmers. :)

About a mile from home I looked in my mirror and saw another commuter about 1/2 block back and though I might have a riding partner for part of the ride to work. I slowed a little so he could catch up but he turned onto a side street that comes out at the intersection I was approaching. When I got to the intersection he was 1/2 block ahead of me and hauling ***. I guess he was late for work. :p

warm warm warm, finally. shorts were in order for the great ride.

Beautiful sunrise this morning over the mountains; light white fluffy clouds. This was a great morning to commute in by bicycle. No flats and fully inflated tires made for a faster ride. Should be good tonight too.

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Ran a red light in front of a police last night ("T" intersection). Nothing happened. Red lights on that street are frequently treated as stops signs. All the lights are for a single large plant entrances and there's hardly any traffic at night so it's tolerated.

No guard dog chasing me last night.

Warm and sunny this morning. No wind. Wonderful ride. Forgot my helmet... was wondering why my head felt naked. :rolleyes: Saw 3 commuters and 2 older folks on bike (don't know where they were going). Also someone who commutes on Roller Blades (second time I see him). All this is pretty cool since my commute is outside usual traffic hours. There are probably more already.

The commute these past days was brutal. Especially for April :p Huge ammount of wind, patches of ice and cold to boot :p But with persistance you can do anything :)

I guess that´s Iceland for you. :-/

I am also experiencing the simple joy of wearing shorts and no layers on the commute this week. Great weather!

2 weeks without a car to use as alternative transportation. It felt to wave goodbye to the old piece of junk as Victory Auto Wreckers took it away. I was wishing I had the car this morning -- raging headache when I woke up. After taking 3 Motrin and catching another 15 winks, the headache was tolerable and I was able to enjoy the commute.

Today was an absolutely beautiful commute. I rode my road bike as I'm going on a group ride this evening. I wore shorts and it felt great, if anything slightly too warm. :)

My first morning commuting on a tandem. I found an old two-seater at my parents house and talked a bike commuter friend from school into bike-pooling with me. Not a bad ride once we figured out how to stop and start without falling over. That thing flies on the strait aways. We took the bike path in this morning but will probably take city streets home this afternoon. It was a fun experiment, but makes it hard to coordinate schedules and I doubt I'll be doing it on a regular basis. Got lots of stares and honks from the cagers, though.

:D Something in a thong? I dunno. :p

Probably just my summer outfit.

Aw, too bad, Tree Trunk... Lost the car and the title game... :D

Beautiful weather in NC: 75 degrees under Carolina Blue skies...

...Lovin' it!

LOL..lucky for Sean May and the Heels that the refs only called the fouls one way!! But I can't blame the refs for it all. Illinois blew three opportunities in the last minute.

Make sure that Carolina weather stays nice. I'll be there May 18-21 to ride the Mitchell ride.

Came up on two fellow commuters this morning. Very nice to see. It's such a beautiful time of year to ride you wonder why the streets aren't packed with bikes.

I'm moving in a couple weeks, new commute will be approx 15miles each way. I did it yesterday after work, weather was great, route was pretty good....did it in 45mins (this one was only 13 miles). felt great to ride that far after work.

now....to find an alternative for that 1 nasty part of my ride. Its a street with narrow lanes that crosses over a freeway. So that means, 1 freeway onramp, then narrow bridge, then another freeway onramp. I think I found a better street to cross at using maps.google.com's new satellite image maps....I think I found a street that goes under the freeway and has no onramps. WOOHOO!!!

Ride home this morning (2am) 62 degrees and 10-15 kn headwind.Enjoyable.
Ride in today around 80 degrees and the mother of all tailwinds - on a geared bike, I may well have been able to coast all the way to work. No prospect of a tailwind for ride home tomorrow morning. Forcast is for high wind to continue, but with temps in the 60s I'm reluctant to complain.

Got a new computer with altimeter. My commute is 36 miles roundtrip with 1500 feet of climbing.

I didn't have to go into work today, but I rode to a buddies' place near DFW airport. The wind was blowing directly in my face, with gusts of 29mph if the weatherman was correct. I was on a singlespeed, and to top it off right before you get to my friends' apartment I have to go up the steepest hill I've encountered in the Dallas area. In fact, it is the hill by which I set my gearing on my ss. I didn't have to dismount, but I was barely turning the pedals over. But the temperature was great and I flew on the way home. Still, I'd take a little bit colder weather with reasonable winds. Riding west today was just brutal, I couldn't even stand up to pump because my chest would catch so much wind that any power benefit from standing was more than wiped out, so I ended up tucked down as tight as possible, riding the drops to knife the wind like I'm racing, but I'm going about 6mph. I'm sure I made some motorists laugh.

Back on the bike this week after almost 2 weeks absence, and it feels great. This morning was rather windy though, requiring some care and attention to hold a straight line.

Cheers,

Ed

Carbon copy of yesterday morning, temps in the low 30s and no wind. There were 5 others out on bikes this morning.

No wind, fog, and 32F with high 60's forecasted for the ride home. I started commuting last summer, in the fall if the temps were in the low 30's I would have put on an additional layer on my legs and a lined, wind-stopping jacket on top of what I was wearing today. It's amazing what is considered cold in the fall compared to the spring! (Plus I learned that I typically was overdressing.)

I had frost on my sleeves when I arrived at work… I should be in short sleeves on the way home!!! :D

Minivans...GRR!

I'm about 50-100 ft from a stopsign ant a T intersection, in light traffic, I've taken the lane so I don't get right-hooked and I'm slowing to a stop. The woman in the minivan behind me decided that I shouldn't have the lane, so she CUT OFF the car that had just turned onto the road from the left (causing it to have to pull halfway off the road to avoid getting hit), pulled up beside me and then moved over toward me. Then she looked shocked and totally afraid when I put my hand on the passenger window. (I'm not sure why I did, it wasn't like my hand would have stopped her from moving over on me.) Then she slammed on the brakes since we were at the stop-sign. Then I started to make my turn and she decided to turn at the same time I did, swing wide, almost take out the truck stopped on the side street and then continued on. I saw her going and turned tight and went off the side of the road fearing she would cut back and hit me. I was right, she would have. What is wrong with people?

Oh, and why did I put my hand on her window? I almost felt like I was a running back trying to straight-arm the defender. There is no question the minivan would win, so why did I do it? It wasn't a consious thing, I just did it. I think I might have hit the window fairly hard too, which might have contributed to her frightened look, but I was only trying to avoid being the speed-bump that she obviously thought I was.

The wierdest thing about all this is that not one person honked their horn. Not the person that was run off the road, not the truck that almost got schmucked and not the lady causing all this havoc. I guess that's the difference between WI and NY.

Well this spring was worth waiting for. Took a while but riding is sweet. Everything is blooming everywhere, riding TO work in a Tshirt.

The classic "I can't be behind a bicycle under any circumstances" driver! :rolleyes:

I had one of those types on my commute home yesterday. Speed limit on the road is 20. So I'm going 20. Person had to get around me, doing probably 30 or 35 to do so before oncoming traffic, then proceeds to pull into a skate park a couple tenths of a mile later. I was past his parking lot before he even parked. Dork.

Anyway, I spotted two muskrats playing in the water on my ride home, and some Canadian geese. I didn't check to see if they had passports. :p

Morning ride was 40F and overcast. Dry, at least.

summer bike, cherry blossoms, tour busses...it must be spring!