Today was the first work day in a while where I DIDN'T ride. As I opened the garage door to leave this morning, the sky also opened up. I was going to ride anyway but my wife came out and encouraged me that I should let her give me a ride. The lightning and thunder also added to that encouragement. So I drove the family van to work, along with my 5 year old son, 9 year old daughter, and wife. My son was in rare form, whining the whole way -- "I'm hungry (as we passed Burger King), turn on some music (as I turned on the news), how far is it, how long, you said we were almost there, I'm hungry, turn on the music". As we pulled until the parking lot at work, my wife asked "Would it have been more relaxing to ride to work in the rain this morning?". I didn't have to answer that one.

Before messing with the adjustor, try cleaning and adding some light grease to the cables. I always save any adjustments as a last resort.

Thanks for the tip!

Same sky for me. Rain hadn't started yet so I took off. Half way to the train station the sky looked like a giant green loaf of bread was going to roll over and crush me. Leaves were turning over. Lightning strobes were everywhere. Huge gusts were throwing occasional early splats in my face. I was pedalling like the wicked witch. I barely squeezed under cover at the Naperville station when a lake fell out of that sky.

Hi Balto! Yes, I've been commuting a few days per week, but round trip, which is nice. I sometimes post on the very long commute list, sometimes I don't get around to it. I already reported on today's morning commute, and this evening's was fine. Still no flat tires, but I know I'm riding on borrowed time!

Tomorrow I won't be riding cause I'm renting a car and leaving the big city behind for a few days. Looking forward to next week's Bike-to-Work day. There's a caravan that passes one block away from my house, so I'll pick them up.

Good ride to work and home. Still a little mud on the old rail bed .But still a good ride .

Ride home yesterday was hectic. The Reds had an afternoon game that let out about a 1/2 hour before I left. Traffic was a mess. All the backroads were packed because I 75 was jammed full of cars too. The ride sucked.

God I love a tailwind. I think this is the first time I have ever had one on my way to work and that along with some good legs combined to bust my speed record by nearly 2 MPH with an avg speed of 17.3 MPH. Didn't hurt that I hit all the lights green either. Everything was right this morning.

Me too! :p I think it was my fastest ride to work yet. We'll be paying for that this afternoon!

Back to cool temperatures though. High 30s this morning. Some areas might get into the teens tonight, but not where I live. Too low & close to the lake. Winter's last attempt to hold on. Then it warms up again.

C-c-cold! Like, 2 or 3 degrees celcius. Too cold for the shorts and t-shirt I wore, though I didn't sweat a drop! My arms and legs were pink by the time I arrived at work. I'm still a little chilly, but they always have the A/C cranked so high here...


The commute home yesterday was awesome. Why? The power went out in half the city! While cars were stuck negotiating four-way stops that used to be lights, in rush hour traffic, I breezed by on the sidewalks. I was grinning the whole way home, musing how a single transformer blowout could cause such chaos. Fantastic.

no thunderstorms on the way home yesterday - just bluster and spit. this morning it was a lot cooler (barely 40 °F) and quite windy - mostly from the north, which was helpful on the way in; here's to a calming effect through the afternoon, eh?

no sun today, but still beautiful weather. still beautiful commute mid 50'sF/10C Need to buy a new beater, but my sons GF is a good ride. Maybe I can buy it from him.

Enjoy you trip, renting a car! You're carless, nice. I hope to ride Rt from Balto(catonsville) to Beltsville on bike to work day. Will be a long ride. We will see how the weather is and how I is;-)

Good rides all week this week. Yesterday afternoon was nice, took the 20 mi scenic route. Nice and fast this morning.

That is all.

Ooo. Yestday's ride in was very fast with the wind at my back...and I paid for it on the ride home: very challenging wind, soft trail. This morning, the legs really felt yesterday's ride and there was a head wind...so slow and easy I went.
This afternoon...come on tailwind!

I hate to sound like a broken record, but today was another great ride into work. I saw a robin eating a worm and a mocking bird giving a crow a run for its' money. That's about all the nature my short commute had to offer today. It's supposed to start getting hot. Paradise lost.

Boy, it's warming up. I think this morning was my last long-sleeve jersey ride until November. Noticed some chain skipping while pulling away from the stop signs and it occurred to me that I ought to have bought a new cassette while rebuilding the commuter. I'll stop by the LBS on the way home today.

Wow - high temps in the 90's today.
Good conditioning for the summer... at least the humidity is low, a seasonably 'dry' 49%! :p

Some inconsiderate neighbor in one of the hoods my route is through let their two pit bulls out of their yard to run loose in the streets. one of them darted out at me in front of my bike and i hit it and fell ! it was so invigorating. im mostly okay but it must have been the grace of god that kept the other dog from jumping on me and mauling away. other than that it was the usual - good hot summer fun ;).

Today was the worst ride to and from work I have ever had. It rained on the way to work, I got there and realized I lost my lock, and on the way back I got a flat tire. I horrible ride, but still better than a car :).

I had a fun commute home today. I paced a guy on an MTB for about 6 miles. Once in a while he would stand on the pedals and push, which struck me as amusing because it didn't seem to change his speed at all. I decided that to pass him would be rude. He was going 15-18MPH, and there was a nasty headwind, so I just cruised along behind him.

Right before we separated, I reeled him in going up a hill just because I could. :)

Cold to nite on the way home.But still a good ride to work and home . Have a good nite .

I was bad yesterday pm. Traffic was horrendous on a 3 mile stretch of 4 lane suburban street. Both westbound lanes were just jam packed bumper to bumper. This usually means an accident on the adjacent highway, although I could not confirm it. Anyway, I was doing some serious "filtering" through the jam, passing on the right when I could, and when some large-a$$ truck was scrunched to the curb, I would hop on the sidewalk, then back into the lane when it cleared up. I usually despise cyclists who do this, but this seemed like and exception. I made it all the way up this one hill, passing these poor suffering motorists (waaaaaah . . . too bad). Hot and muggy. No fun for them. I was loving it. I mad it all the way up to the stop light and stopped behind and to the right of the lead car. The light was long so a good patch of pavement was clear ahead, until a 4-way stop sign about a mile up. The lane is narrow so I knew I would have at least one lane of angry motorists backed up behind me. Green light. I shot off the stop line like a rocket. Zoom. One car passed. Zing. Another. I'm hauling. I can see traffic backing up ahead. Another car, veering into the inside lane to pass me. It's a sprint. Then a car passes me just before traffic begins to back up again. She veers to the curb and slams on the brakes to cut me off and starts cussing me out. Without losing a pedal stroke, I hop on the sidewalk and bypass her. Hah, she is stuck in traffic again. LOSAAAAAR with a big "L" on your dang forehead. She wouldn't be cussing me out without the traffic jam. It's her choice to sit in a cage, not mine. It's all about "personal responsibility" as some are keen to point out. God help me, but I enjoyed it. I know, it's the devil in me.

I've got some adjusting to do. I worked up a good sweat last night with the temps in the high 40's. Think I'll bring my camelback next week.

It was great!! :beer:
It's gotten warm enough in the mornings that I ditched the cotton T-shirt and wore a plain bright yellow jersey with my PI baggy shorts.
I guess next week I'll start bringing a wash cloth and hand towel with me to clean up at the sink. No showers here. :o