Nice! My 9 year old girl thinks I'm weird, but she likes ot go riding, anyway.

On my way home today, going through a neighborhood to avoid the wind along the river route, I passed a guy raking leaves in his yard, with his 7 or 8 year old daughter out with him. As I rolled by, I heard her say, "Daddy - He's FAST!"

No such thing, but it's nice she thinks so, anyway.

39F, partly cloudy @ 5:45 AM today & enjoyed seeing the stars on my commute in but all that changed by lunch time. Torrents of rain and a gusty headwind made me struggle to maintain even 14 MPH & some of that rain found its way inside my rain gear. Spent part of my lunch hour changing into dry clothes & hanging everything around the garage to dry.then drove back for the afternoon as I had to pickup a 40# bag of food for my dogs. Weatherman says more of the same is on the way all next week...have a nice weekend.

yesterday's weather was in today's paper. gusts 'up to 55kph', although i don't know if they measured them up on that bridge with no city to slow the wind down. apparently the power was out in parts of the city as well that morning. yeah! officially ugly weather, and was i not undaunted by it? ima give myself a little private 'hardcore' badge for this month on the strength of it, anyway.

today much more laid-back, as far as weather. still raining and cold and windy, but pretty ordinary by comparison. started a tiny bit late because this was one of my kid's late-start fridays, and it's just impossible not to get a slight feeling of sleep-in festival creeping all through the house on those days. nothing eventful happened except i dodged a mid-block left hook from a semi over on the flat side. the driver was waiting to make his turn into one of the accursed strip malls, so i at first i thought he'd seen me, but i was watching him anyway as i went through. and sure enough, he went into the turn as if i hadn't been there. i deked slightly to get clear of his fenders, so no loss - but i got a bit of body language through his driver-side window that gave me the impression he had seen me after all, and had been expecting me to make room for him. wtf back atcha, buddy. my right of way.

paid for yesterday's ride on the way home. i had planned to drive and use the car, and thusly also to be all efficient and custodial parent and bring home a fridgeful of milk for next week. but because i rode, i didn't do that - and one of the reasons i thought i could afford to go with the ride was because i deked a look into the fridge and saw three one-gallon jugs. i thought we were good to the weekend, so off i went. but this morning i discovered that my kid's been doing his drifty absent-minded squirrel-genes act again, and none of those jugs had more than two cups in them. so long detour to the grocery store to fetch a subsistence gallon on the way home. half an hour after i brought it home, there it was in the fridge - looking half empty along with the other three. :D my kid cracks me up. NOT a linear thinker, he's not.

i tell myself that tomorrow i'm going to go get a 'how to give your bike the gears' book and whatever tools it takes to adjust deraillers. i'd better make sure i bring milk home with me.

-24F (-31C) and mostly clear last night. The snow on the trails is getting packed
down pretty good around here. I just got to stay away from the bumpy parts.

A perfect 48 degrees on the way to work, with the usual headwind making it a bit of work getting to work. I decided to take it easy and make up for it on the ride home. On the ride home I made good time and hit almost every light on the green. On one of the red lights a woman decided to lecture me. "You should wear glow in the dark clothes". Gee, Where would I get those?" I replied " I must need them if my dual headlights,flashing lights, reflective equipment, and white clothing aren't enough for drivers to see me on a well lit street". She laughed when she realized I was right. It was a nice 58 degrees, and as always, fighting the headwind. No rude drivers, just cruising along. It's getting addictive riding to work. I'm finding ways to avoid driving just so I can ride.

Hooray! Back from R&R and ready for the Monday morning ride.
Temps are supposed to be in the mid/hi 70s (~24C) later today. :beer:
The ride in should be great with lots of sunshine and temps in the hi 50s (14C).
Sure has been a warm fall, but I'm not complaining. :D

Wow, what a great ride in this morning. Sunny and in the low 50's. I was pumped up for some reason and ready for more riding by the time I got to work, wish I could have just kept riding and riding. Temps going to be in the mid 70's this afternoon for the ride home :)

Nice ride in this morning, lower 40s and little wind...as compared to the 40-60mph gusts we were getting yesterday. Of course there always has to be a fly in the ointment - some idiot flying by me hollering 'GET OFF THE ROAD!'. A-holes do vex me.

Expected to hit 'near record highs' today, with a potential to get into the mid 80's. I was way overdressed this morning with tights and long-sleeve shirt. I'll be putting on shorts for the ride home this evening.

Excellent commute with -3C with no wind. My legs are real tight today after doing a 10K turkey trot yesterday. The bike to work was probably the best thing I could have done.

I am looking forward to a few cm of snow tonight and tomorrow.

Another beautiful morning in Western Kentucky. We were south of the terrible tornados that hit Henderson, KY, and Evansville, IN. Our thoughts and prayers go out to those folks. Upper 50's, high today around 70. Love that Brooks Team Pro, as comfy with slacks as padded shorts. I'll be out riding at lunch. Here's a pic of the haze rising off the fields on the way. Sony-Ericsson cell phone camera.

After hurting my back last wed and getting a massage to relieve the pain I took the weekend off. What a difference that made. I am seeing nice results on the hills that usually kill me.
Thus, this morning's commute was wonderfull. Plus, it was in the low 40s. Nice and warm.

The commute today was boring. I flew along at 20 mph, stayed refreshingly dry and didn't sweat at all. Ends up I've been riding too much. Had to take today off to replenish my stock of work clothes. Todays a blood drive at work though, so when I donate I won't have to worry about falling off my bike later. Be back on the road tomorrow.

Didn't ride today. The boss asked if I could give him a ride to work this morning as his wife's car was in the shop so she was driving his car. So I obliged and drove to work this morning. Used the opportunity to drop-off about twelve bags of cloths at the Salvation Army on the way to work too. Back on the bike tomorrow!

Nice ride in today. It was about 55F and sunny so t-shirt and work pants for the commute in. Gotta love fall weather that's like this cuz pretty soon, it's gonna suck. Got slowed up by some police vans and buses that were crawling along. That's the last time I try to ride like an obedient cyclist. After I swung around the police van and shot ahead of the bus, things were clear sailing. Rode in between two trucks and passed both of them in the middle of Lexington and rode on the LHS to make my left turn at 42nd. When I got to work, one of the other commuters was back on his commuting bike, a Giant Cypress LX. All last week he rode an old red mtb while his new ride was in the shop for maintenance.

Strange weather. 50F degrees. Kind of a side-wind but it pushed me at times so that was nice.

Friday night I was riding home after a visit to the pub with friends. I had my headlight and blinkies going. When I came up to one intersection, there were some people on the sidewalk. One was a kid. He said, "Whoa! Look at that bike!" :o I said, "Hi there!"

What an awesome ride. Base layer (barely needed), s/s jersey, arm warmers (came off after 5 miles), full finger gloves (also came off), "cooperative" cagers, lovely fall colors in the trees, and lots of sunshine. :D

Can't wait for the ride home.

Too bad you didin't have a spare bike for him to ride. :( ;)

You didn't show up on your bike and offer to have him ride on the handlebars? No balls!
:p

Too bad you didin't have a spare bike for him to ride. ;)

62F here in Plano Texas. Nice ride in. But there was one minivan slowly rolling onto my path from a parking lot and it made me mad as hell. When I passed an intersection, a car passed me using the same lane. Luckily I am not a total advocate of VC, otherwise I could be hit. Just be careful about parking lot exits and intersections.

Riding again after two days off [day 1 - went to work early, went home after midnight; day 2 - hungover, food poisoning]. Aye, 'tis chilly! There is still ice on the roads near my house, but I'm sporting the Schwalbe Ice Spiker tire on the front. No sliding, unlike last week when I thought I was going under a car every 5 minutes. I'll throw one on the back in the near future.

By the way, I got my brand new scattante R550 from supergo.com. I love it very much; the ride is much more enjoyable and faster (shortened the commute by about 10 min). But I am somehow wary of those skinny 23c tires. My tires have gone from 26X2.0 to 27X1.25 to now 700X23C.

Overcast, breezy, and surprisingly warm. I kept the window open last night to hear the rain that never came. Didn't really know how to dress when I left the house and ended up taking off my gloves and windvest. I met my buddy for our pre-work 20 mile loop. He's joining a new racing club in the new year and he's really pushing me on these rides. I'm getting stronger but I need a massage and a nap when I get to the office!

A little warm for November but a great ride. My wife wanted me to run by Publix on the way home so that added a couple miles and a couple pounds to my ride. Oh yeah the strangest thing happened to me on the way home, I was spinning along at about 100 rpm and some guy in a Range Rover yells at me to get into a higher gear. Now you can run me off the road, you can tell me to get the f*** off the road, but don't critique my riding from the passenger seat of an SUV.

Finally just before I reach home I start hearing voices. It turns out the shortwave radio I carry in my pack had flipped on and I was hearing the hosts of All Things Considered.