I put an wireless indoor outdoor thermometer on my x-mas list. The news this am said it was a balmy 25F this morning, so I dressed a bit lighter. When I stepped out the door it felt much cooler, like about 10F to 15F. Sure enough, when I passed the thermometer coming up the hill, it said 12F [with a stiff breeze].

There is a big big difference in 12 and 25 in regards to how you dress. Needless to say my hands, and feet were cold when I got to the office. Thank goodness for a steamy hot shower on arrival :)

I noticed this am that when it's getting light, the cars tend to give less clearance. In the dark, they are 1/2 in the next lane. When it's getting light, they just move next to the line.

Very fast ride in today. I was trying [failing] to keep up with my wife on the ride in. She was on her road bike, and I was on my single-speed mtb with spiked tires front and back. Thanks goodness for red lights, or she would have completely dropped me on the flats. Traffic was kinda nutz all over the city, but our route in was pretty clear.

It was about 20 degrees when I left this morning. I was wearing 5 layers to keep warm: 1) coolmax T shirt, 2) long sleeve cotton T, 3) fleece vest, 4) fleece jacket, and 5) Performance commuter rain/wind jacket. In addition, I wore my skull cap, wool socks and, full-finger gloves. I left late and was slow but not that cold. The exposed parts of my face were cold but everything else was fine. When I got to the garage some lady (in her car) and the guard were chatting away-blocking my entrance to the garage. I waited for a minute then asked the guard to pick it up a little, I was starting to get cold. He replied that I wasn't the only one. My ride home looks to be only slightly improved with about a 5 degree warm up. I've also been slowing it down a little to keep an eye out for tacks on the trail. Didn't spot any this morning although others have.

You sure it was the wind? Maybe it was the rotweillers. :D

Nice calm commute home last night, with a stop at a local restaurant on the way home since I had missed dinner.

Nice ride in today. Had to stop for a while to merge across one lane, but that's no big deal. There's this one section of road construction, too, the last two days. It's fun drafting behind a car for a few hundred feet and keeping up. :) Of course, once I pull out of the draft and the car accelerates back up to normal speeds, I get left behind.

17F at 0645, beautiful clear sky, bit of a head wind on the westerly ride to work, 9 miles, should be fun going home :) We have had the driest fall I can remember, very little precip here in Boulder. Got the commuter back from the shop, will put the fenders and rack on tonight. Got some arkel samauri panniers for my bday so will also try those out on tomorrows commute!

hi Scott

Which one is Roy Rogers Rd? Towards Sherwood?

Anyway, I live really close to Beaverton and part of my commute's on Beav. Hillsdale Hwy. Did you think the ice was worse this morning? I thought so... there was deffinitely more of it. There were also less bike commuters. I could see the tracks of two :( and saw only one cyclist on my way to work.
Take care

I rode in this morning at 20 degrees...a lsight headwind which made it worse. My finger always take the worst of it when it is anything lower than freezing...I had mild frostbite when I was a kid so my fingers are more suceptible than the average person's are. othe than that I was fine. Was wearing old military polypro pants (thin and thick), t-shirt, "wicking" long sleeve and a Cannondale LE Jersey. I also had balaclava. again the only thing bad were my hands!

off from work today to use personal time and work on thesis, so rode further than commute. COLD (+/- 24f) but refreshing study break!

Nothing unusual about tonight's commute which is fine w/ me. Took the direct route so I could park the car. Now it's time to be an obnoxious cager online w/ Midnight Club 3. Get home safe everyone!

Saw four deer on the way to work this morning. Two and then two more a little later.

I got almost home this afternoon to find the county ran the road grader down the road I live on. :rolleyes: Which means it's too soft to effectively ride on with tires narrower than 1.75". Dismounted at the end of the road and started walking the bike home. Now, the second house on the left from the end of the street sits back off the road. It's one of the older houses that were here before this area was a neighborhood. They own all the way through to the next road. Anywho, they also have four dogs, all mutts, that always bark at me. The one that looks something like a shelty is almost always loose. The one that looks like some kind of terrier is always tied. The one that looks sort of like a black lab and the one that resembles a Chesapeake Bay retriever are almost always tied. Well today I'm walking the bike by there and the lab and the chessie come running out. Barking, growling, hair all the wrong way, I'm on the wrond side of the bike to use it for a shield, can't just spin the bike around with the trailer on it. Great, now I'm going to have to fight two big dogs. :rolleyes: I start talking to them. Unafraid, because I know I could take either one, it's just that there's two is what I'm not sure about. The lab stops at the edge of the road. Hair still standing up she's not growling or showing teeth, she's just sniffing around, but I suspect she's waiting until I'm not watching her. The chessie get to the edge of the road turns around and trots back up toward the house, so now I'm watching the lab. Here comes the chessie. But, now she has a soccer ball? WTF? Just a few seconds ago you were making like you wanted to rip my legs off, and now you want to play? Women. :rolleyes: ;) So she drops the ball in the road and rolls it to me. I pick it up, throw it up in her yard and start to walk off. No way buddy, you're not getting away that easy. Here she comes with the ball. At this point the lab goes back to the house and I don't see her again. This goes on for about a dozen throws when I start walking on down the road. Here she comes following me. I tell her to go home and she turns and heads back to her house. I start walking home and here she comes, now without the ball. She won't get close enough to let me pet her, but she follows me all the way home and sniffs around the yard until I get my gear off the trailer and in the house, the trailer off the bike and inside, then bring the bike inside. I think if I'd stayed on the porch she'd still be out there. :o

Good ride to work and home . I thing i am the only person still riding to work, at my work . So I have the bike rack all to my self . Have a good nite .

Good ride this morning, I just can't stand the damn car fumes !!

I almost choked at one point, and this was right in front of a school ouch !

Anyway, today is my short ride, only 5.4 miles in each direction.. 2morrow I'm going to try out the other ride, its more like 7.x miles but I'm not 100% sure yet...

I like this commuting thing !!! =)

After 18 mos. of commuting I finally got a mirror. The helmet mounted variety. It took about 500m to get used to it. I think I'm going to like seeing behind me. Commute was great.

Down around zero F degrees. Several people out running, which is several more than usual. More lake effect snow. Light and fluffy.

Could be a big storm coming tomorrow, which might kill my bicycle commute for the season. We'll see.

Since we are having an ice storm here, made the wife happy and took the train in to work. First time in months.

Tomorrow I'll be back on the bike! :D (and to think I use to live this way... :eek: )

Ride in was flowing. Only had to stop at two reds. The first came after a mile of nice and easy riding. Changed 3 lanes of traffic in about 20' of forward movement so I could make a left so I could catch the green light. Weather warmed up to 22F today so only had 3 layers on. Undersilk feels nice and dries out quick.

Brisk ride in today. My wife is still riding her road bike, and I think I'll switch back to skinny tires tomorrow, as there is no snow in the forecast and the ice is sublimating away. I really had to struggle to keep up with her today. She beat me to 8 St., 17 Ave. and would have dropped me if it weren't for all the peds crossing 8th. We shared a quick kiss illuminated by the headlights of the cars all around us in traffic, then departed for our respective workplaces. [Awwwwww!]

Just before I got to my designated parking facility, an SUV [long and dark, shiny and black] stopped abruptly in the right lane. I went to the left, then a Benz minivan cuts across from the far right ahead of me. Thanks! Hard on the brakes, I didn't see if my spiked tires threw up any sparks on the pavement. I tailed the Benz into the parking garage and then blew by him/her at the gate.

[QUOTE=MyPC8MyBrain]I put an wireless indoor outdoor thermometer on my x-mas list. The news this am said it was a balmy 25F this morning, so I dressed a bit lighter. When I stepped out the door it felt much cooler, like about 10F to 15F. Sure enough, when I passed the thermometer coming up the hill, it said 12F [with a stiff breeze].

There is a big big difference in 12 and 25 in regards to how you dress.QUOTE]

Been there, done that, I got mine for Christmas last year. I wouldn't be without now.

Late night ride home last night was rather calming after a difficult day. And the weather has held up nicely. This morning, I was feeling a bit tired, so my ride in was at a more relaxed pace. Still a great time, though, and some much appreciated time on the bike. :)

no ride today since i'm not working. probably use the bike later for a few local errands, but i left my lock in the rack so i won't take it downtown for the major purpose.

maybe it's the celsius thermometre, but i'm ready to swear the world at 0 degrees and below is just a different paradigm in every way from the world at +0.5. instantly discernible too; i took my bike outside yesterday into about -2 and every fibre said 'COLDDD!' it wasn't even the temperature really, just a different feel and a different smell, different bite in the air. i can't even really tell how much i like it, but i'm grateful for the ice-pack effect through the ride and the rest of the day. but then i go into work, where they keep it so warm in contrast that i have to get up and go walkabout outside every hour or so to avoid falling asleep.

i'm starting to flail and choke a little, but i don't think it's really the ride. it's winter itself and all the freaking darkness that's making me feel so sweaty and feeble and disoriented. the solstice is coming not one day too soon this year. it's always like a beach i feel like i'm hauling myself up on to gasp in the sand.

songs: come back to us barbara lewis hare krishna beauregard, john prine; willie mcbride, eric bogle.

Get a Fahrenheit (sp?) thermometer. When it hits 0F, you'll really know it's cold. And cheer up, the night has its own magical qualities.

7ºF & breezy for the morning commute. Roads are pretty much bare and dry until I hit town. Then patchy ice is the norm. Not bad.

Expecting flurries for the trip home. :)

but then i'd miss all the fun of having every day feel perceptibly different from the previous one. it's not that i find 0C all that cold, anyway - it's felt so warm to me this winter that i keep wondering if i'm losing the plot. it's more the fact that as soon as you hit the freezing mark, you get that smell in the air that you can't find anywhere else unless you go down to the supermarket, stick your head in the deep-freeze and hyperventilate. society appears to Frown On making a habit of that.

. . . because as soon as christmas is under our belts, we'll be on our way back to BASEBALL SEASON.

GO YANKEES!!!
On a different subject, my commute home was warmer than the past few days which is nice. Of course, it's warming up so it can snow tonight and rain down freezing water droplets tomorrow morning which may or may not be the first day of the transit strike. All this of course means I have to wear the clipless shoes to stay on the pedals and carry my shoes somewhere. And wear my rain gear. At least it'll be warmer sort of.

I dressed up this morning ready to head out on my bike after I waited out the peak traffic. Then I changed to my normal work clothes and drove to work. Sometimes, when I am depressed or occupied by something else, I don't feel ready to face the perceived danger on the road and it's too strenous to ride the 9 miles to work. What a coward am I!