My commute yesterday was awesome.

In the morning I decided to bike in via the shortest and most pleasent route. I biked to the ferry in Wehawken and took the ferry to 38th street in NYC. Then I headed south on the bike path to the World Finacial Center.

Before leaving work in the afternoon, I had not decided which route I was going to take. I wanted to do the long route for a while now and had not gotten to it. This afternoon I felt good and decided to go for it. The long route is five times my normal commute.

I headed north on the bike path along the Hudson from the World Financial Center. I rode the bike path up to 133rd street. From there, I switched to Riverside drive. I rode Riverside Drive up to 165th Street. At 165th I switched over to Fort Washington Ave which took me to the George Washington Bridge. Going over the bridge was awesome. The views are spectacular. On the Jersey side, I headed south on River Road all the way down to West New York, NJ. I headed into town via 60th street.

This has to be my best commute ever. I am looking forward to doing it again. Next time I want to do it round trip. I want to take the time to take some picture because the views are great.

Quick'n'easy, as usual. I am so blessed to be able to ride through a park to get to work! The air was cool, and smelled clean and fresh. I'm sorry to get off the bike and go into work, I just want to keep on riding.

I hope you heal up fast, truman!

Thanks, Juliebean. Only about 3 of my 11 miles are on streets, the rest is river side paved trail. On the positive side, changing the flat was much easier by street light's pink glare than it would have been on the trail in utter drakness, save for a feeble halogen bar light.

Truman

May you heal well, and soon.

Mid 80's, low humidity, and sunny for my ride home. I stopped by the bank, then by a friend's to drop something off, then to Giant, and lastly, to the corner store for a sandwich and Fig Newtons. I love the idea of running errands on my bike on my way home from work.

My commute home included a stop at EMS for a new camelbak bladder for this Sunday's NYC Century. My old one had some stuff growing inside it that was resistant to anti-bacterial detergent. On the way home from EMS, I was following a motorcyclist who was squeezing between cars when he stopped suddenly. I hit the brakes and my rear tire flew up. Luckily I was on my feet when that happened. I heard the passenger in the taxi next to me say, "Whoa, cool!". The motorcyclist turned to look at me, saw I was right behind him, and promptly ignored me. The rest of the ride was uneventful.

Nice rides except I got stung by a bee five miles from home! He got trapped between the top of my ear and the helmet strap, stung me and then buzzed off. OUCH. Good thing I'm not allergic, I just let out a big [DELETED] and kept riding.

Today's highlights.

• I woke up with plenty of time to make a café au lait. That's always a great way to start the day.
  
• I also had an easier ride in as I found the time to change the knobbies on my mountain bike to my slicks last night so no rumbling noise and more efficient pedaling.
  
• The mornings here have been getting chillier (15C) so I put on what has become my favourite piece of clothing - my MEC zippered cycling sweater. I love this thing so much that I bought one for my wife and she loves it too. The other bonus to the cooler weather is that as the sun rises, it doesn't get super hot so it's a nice comfortable ride.
  
• The pain in my left knee from Monday's fall trying to climb a steep rock on my mountain bike is tons better. Very glad about that. It was killing me durying yesterday's ride to/from work.
  
• I really, really enjoy the ride in. My commute is along a bike path that runs along the river and about 5-10 kilometers south of me is the congested highway I would be stuck on driving in to work. The gorgeous weather we've been having has made it even more enjoyable.
  
• I only had to wait 10 minutes for my commuting workmates at our designated meeting place. Bonus.
  
• The ride home as equally good.

Nice ride to work & home . I didn't see any other commuter today . But had a realy good ride .
Have a good nite .

No commuting this week - I'm on vacation. :)
But yesterday on my way home from my recreational ride I saw a commuter about a block ahead of me who seemed to be having some sort of difficulty. She was walking the bike rather than riding. So I pulled up beside her and asked if I could help. Before looking closely I assumed she had a flat or her shifters weren't working. Then I took a close look at the bike. There was a motor attached to the left side of the rear wheel and a huge battery in the middle triangle where her water bottle was supposed to mount. :eek:
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She explained that she was a new "bike commuter" (her first day) and hit a pothole a ways back and the motor stopped. Now she was faced with the dilema of walking/pushing/riding this very heavy contraption ~2.5 miles to get home.
After a short conversation and checking for loose wires, etc. she got it going again.
She said she bought the bike to save on the cost of gas and to lose weight? How do you lose weight riding this type of bike? I gave my best sales pitch for REAL commuter bikes and she said she would probably get one once she got rid of the excess weight.
Anyway, I mounted my trusty steed and passed her 1/2 block later. Hit the next hill and never saw her again.

Great ride into work today! Beautiful Weather!!!

Last night, got off work, rode home on my 10 mile commute... made it a 20 mile commute... I just wanted to keep going... was very nice out!

Had a nice ride in this morning, except that I hit every red light along the way. Oh well, I will be taking the back way home so that will be nice.

Saw two commuters (I'm guessing) this morning. Passed them as their cruising speed was less than mine. One guy was a major clydesdale on an older road bike like mine. Made me look like Lance, and I'm 6'2" @ 195. He'd pedal for a bit, coast, and repeat. Must be a newbie. :)

Then I came upon an older lady (older = gray hair) on a comfort bike. She was obviously posing so I gave her the look and dropped her. (Okay I'm only kidding about the poser/look/dropping stuff.)

Nice weather, too. Bit of a headwind. That is all.

Had a lot of fun commuting today. I had to be at the university at 8:30 for my class, but I got up at 5:30 and left around 6:40 to be able to go to the swimming pool before my class.

The commute this early in the morning was pleasant - not too many cars, coolth, half-darkness... Then, when I was about 2 km from my destination a real bad thunderstorm hit. Left me completely soaked. Had to stop to wipe my glasses as I was not able to see anything.

So I arrived at the uni around 7:40, run to the pool (getting even more soaked on the way) and... have to stand in line for half an hour to get my stupid access card for this year to use the facilities! Argh! So, no swimming. In fact, I barely made it in time for class - changing into my "respectable" clothes and getting to a building at the other end of this huge campus takes time.

I am not sure what I am going to wear on the way back... The biking garb will not be completely dry, and it's not a hot day today...

I was at the office until 11:30 last night. I knew my wife and kids would be asleep, so I took a little detour just a few miles past my house, into the midnight Delta breeze. The streets were empty and silent but for the wind and the whirring of my tires against the asphalt.

Left five minutes late this morning. Passed two women on cruisers (I'm not saying that's difficult), one says "wow, that's a fast bike". I thought to myself, no, that's a fast me on a bike. Got to work five minutes earlier than usual....

Good commute, great weather, interesting day. Some cretin contractors at Duke were painting my building and got some overspray on my bike :( It cleaned up easily (latex), but I was irate.

On my ride home for lunch, I saw what appeared to be a fly-fishing gym class practicing casting on the field hockey court. That was a wierd and funny thing to see.

I can't wait to get home, 'cause a friend of mine just called to tell me that he picked up an old '60s Triumph (Raleigh) and just dropped it off at my house. Sweet!! It's good to have buddies that rummage for you. He was probably thinking, "Hey, look at that old piece of junk... Jack would like that!" :p

See ya at the Century. :)

Commute was mostly uneventful today. A guy on a road bike passed me on Riverside. I let him go for a while, the chased him. Just as I caught him he turned off. And I wanted to drop him because he didn't look anything like Lance. (sorry couldn't resist the parody -- see Road Cycling forum to be ITK if you have no clue of what I mean)

I did have another of those moments where I wish the cars would go on the sidewalk where they belong. They were in the middle of the lane getting in my way, WTF? :D Aren't cars for kids, you know, Matchbox, Hot Wheels and all that? (caused me to miss a light, dang it)

Ah, parody is in the air! :D

I was out the door and on my bike by 6:45. We had mackerel sky here in Ohio, extending all the way to the horizon. As the sun rose, the light lit up the clouds; the sky looked as if it was set afire. Unfortunately, I had no camera on me.


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It looked something like this, but the clouds covered much more of the sky.

I left work at noon, and rode home under a clear noon sky.

See you there! I'll be wearing a bright yellow shirt with the stubborn remains of some weird puddle I rode through on the E79 St. CP transverse and riding the awesome Haro Vector with the early 90's paint scheme.

No report on the commute since I worked from home while waiting for the bits and pieces of my Yakima roof rack to arrive. As soon as it gets close to 7 pm, it's off to CP to ride around the big loop.

Good ride... but sure is getting light later...(Grrrrrr)

Today was the fifth day that I made my easy 5 mile commute. I got a Trek 7200FX almost two weeks ago,first bike since high school in 1987, with a rack but still waiting for back-ordered panniers, so have been inventive with gym bags and bungee cords. Broke down last night and bought a cheap (but bright) backpack from WalMart to get me through, I had tried to carry some papers in a folder under one arm but that was NOT fun. Usual newbie problems like the first time I tried to pump up a Presta valve and twisted the stem off, also haven't gotten up the courage to try taking the back wheel off to put on a fender, though the front wheel isn't so scary now.

The info about commuting gear and routines I've read here has been most helpful. I can see that buying accessories for one's bike can become a serious habit. Almost got rained on today, am still not sure how much damage it does to get the bike wet and not be able to really wipe it down until the end of the day.
But I'm definitely hooked on biking and hope I can get a refund for my yearly parking fee at work! I've certainly been more awake all morning after riding in.
Russell

Late-summer weather pattern blew a ton of low clouds in from the coast this afternoon, straight S->N up my commute corridor. Oversized Jumbo SuperPatriot Flag at the truck dealer (Stevens Crk & San Tomas for the locals) was pointed straight at me, pinned out flat. Barely made a 13mph avg and that was a lot of work. But there's so much traffic since school started up again that I was still keeping even with the traffic, so that's a comfort :D

You posted a picture of MY bike! How do you lose weight riding such a bike? You pedal! It's just a regular bike with a motor but there's no rule that you have to use the motor all the time! My 17-mile commute is one hill after another so I got the e-bike to help me up some of those hills because frankly, it wasn't much fun. I think it's great that some folks love the hills but I hate them. :( Maybe I wouldn't mind ONE or TWO now and then but there's no such thing where I live. As heavy as that bike is, I HAVE to be getting stronger. I probably use the motor about 20 percent of my commute and I pedal while the motor is running, too. So do I get credit for the 13.6 miles that I pedal alone? ;)

My motor cut out on my the first time I rode it all the way home. Turns out I had a bad battery pack. Anyway, I rode it for another four miles without the motor. But it was 97 degrees and I had several big hills left so I finally called my husband and he rode it the rest of the way home while I followed. Had it not been my first commute and so hot, I would have been able to make it.

Today I had the most fun since I started commuting in June. It was only 84 degrees and lower-than-normal humidity. It felt great! :)

Great ride today, I saw another bike in the bike rack at work. It's unusual to see another bike besides mine and another rider's. Some of the other commuters take their bikes into the office and work areas. I think out of 2000 employees, I think there are about 4 of us that commute. Have a good night.