Did you get his plate #?

No, just the first couple of digits. In retrospect, what I should have done was to snap a pic of his plate with my camera phone and email it to the Sac P.D. traffic office.

Ride home included a convo w/ another commuter in my bldg. (diff. cos.) about, what else, bikes. Then I rode home and was only slowed by dogs and their owners on the skinny sections of the MUP.

great ride home today. it's becoming noticeably easier, and i'm feeling more confident on the bike, which is making the rides much more enjoyable. i caught quite a few bugs to the face on the first quarter home, that's never happened before. i took the long way home (10.6 miles) and got it down to 45 mins. :)

Your words are kind... :)

astounding isn't it... so many people refusing to own up and be accountable for their actions... :(

Hope some of you are able to make it out to your local Ride of Silence...

I think it would be really cool if we all made national news...

Something like "Cyclists Across the Globe Unite in Memoriam, Awareness; Share the Road"

Commute was hot... Also had to drop off my road bike for repairs on the way home. That meant walking the rest of the way home.

I hope I adjust to the heat soon. I almost bonked on the way home yesterday and then again on the way in today. :(

usual. at lite (that does not "see" bicyclists), i received several nods, smiles, or waves riding home today!
that's some-what different to the past 6 years commute. a nice change. i'm starting to see a small up-swing of other bike commuters, but no decrease in car drivers, no real big change (car #) here in s nj yet!

Great ride today, it actually wasn't raining for once! Though it is supposed to start in the afternoon, so we'll see. It doesn't matter so much when I arrive at home all soggy and wet.

The new tires on my trike are FANTASTIC, so much faster! It really is an incredible difference. Now all I have to do is find some fenders...

I'll let you know what the commute will be like later this morning - I'm still at home. :)
I'm going in late and working late to do the Ride of Silence.
That means I'll also be heading home much later. Hmmm. What surprises will the cycling gods (or traffic gods) have for me today??? :o

No rain!
 

Yes, finally, I could ride to work here in Maine without rain. Sunshine, warmed up quickly. But I encountered the worst headwind of the year, and I really worked up a sweat. Felt great! :)

Another great ride in this morning just like the past two days. Sunshine and temps in the low 50s with not much wind. Had a woman cut in front of me turning left though an intersection this morning. I was going straight and went around some cars waitint to turn left and she obviously didn't see me but when she finally did she hesitated and made the situation worse for me having to slam on my brakes in order to get around her. She should have just kept going, crazy how people freak out when they see a cyclist. I saw 5 other cyclists last night on my ride home which was nice since I usually don't see many out and about. It must have been since I took a main road home which I usually avoid.

Legs have felt spent after a weekend of plane and car travel and some weight lifting sessions. Saw three people on the ride home last night which was nice even if I didn't get to say hi. Up early to do my first ride as a commuting mentor for the local transit authority. Strange experience. I've led many group rides for recreational cyclists but we're out in the country with no stop lights or traffic and it's easy to keep track of everyone. Commuting, I'm so focused on traffic and staying safe and used to being alone, it's difficult to maintain a reasonable speed, hold a good, unobstructive line and call out turns and hazards.

Ride home last night was fast- flying on the W&OD, tons of other bikers out there.

This morning tried a different route and got lost a bit, extending my normal 5.5mi/25min ride to over 40min.

Fantabulous morning ride, bright sun, mostly dry roads...I had to remember where I put my tinted lenses. No cager drama to speak of, the lights are still out at the B.U. Bridge but I managed ok. I can't wait to hammer out 25 miles after work.

My average speed is finally climbing due to two items:
1) Body is adapting to the 45 mile RT commute
2) I started watching my cadence and now stick to 90 is a min and 105 as a max. Below the min I shift up. Above the max I downshift. At least I think that is how the terminology goes. :p

The commute this morning was great....until I blew a spoke. Never happened to me before. :( Fortunately it happened just as I reached my building.

The bike shop two doors down from my afternoon appt. is backed up, so I'm trying to find a way from the other bike shop (more like 2 miles from the appt.) to the appt.

hads to ride back to work late last night. i was in a rush and really pushed it. i think i burnt my lungs out a little bit and today i have a hangover quality head ache.

day off and i wanted to put in 30 or so, maybe it will just be 10

Another pre-dawn ride today. It was cooler than yesterday, but I was moving pretty quickly and was sweating pretty hard by the time I got to work. I passed a roadie on the flats. This wouldn't be remarkable, but he was hammering in the drops, and I was on my SS. I have mad skills?!

Did 20 home yesterday. It was a really nice day, and lots of cyclists out, I was very nice to them all, dispite their lack of awareness on the trails. One lady was overtaking a runner and I broke hard to give her room cuz she didn't know I was coming. Then at the last second (after she had already pulled out and would have cut me off if I hadn't seen it coming said "oh i'm so sorry" I smiled and said "it's alright, your fine, I'm just glad to see more people on bikes" It made me feel really good.

Then I was almost to my house and I cross over a pedestrian bridge. Long before I reached it I saw two ladies walking dogs who were going to reach the bottom first. In classic pedistrain iodicy they took up the entire width of the bridge, and dispite my yelling, loud whistling and calling out to them, didn't notice me untill I was about 5 feet from them. Then did the typical ped panic and actually got their dog leashes wrapped around themselves, caused me to unclip part way up the ramp, and in to high a gear to start up from a dead stop, then gave me a nasty look and made comments as I walked by pushing my bike and shaking my head. It was all I could do not to chew their asses. But I'm trying to be a nice cyclist :-)

Ride in this morning was short, my wife and I went shopping for new shoes for our Vegas trip this weekend, that and a trip to the mall for a new phone charger got us home kinda late and I just set my alarm in time to take the shorter route. The company I work for had a tent set up close to work with fruit, granola bars, gatorade and juice, "guess the gas price next year" game, free raffle for cheezy bike prizes, and friendly faces. Funny, i've never SEEN so many people biking to work in the 2 years i've been riding! They must have smelled free stuff! Also funny that just yesterday I was trying to look up what the company was doing for bike to work week this year, and couldn't find anything...must have missed the memo.

Lastly, the shower room I use (have yet to see more than about 1 guy a week using it besides me this year) was FULL when i got there, and had 2 people waiting to use the 3 showers when I left! I dubbed today "trendy people ride their bikes to work day".

I'm gonna miss the ride of silence here, but I'll be there in spirit.

56F when I rode wearing a t-shirt and jeans. I got to work soaked w/ sweat. And it's not even hot out yet. I hope our new office has a shower, but somehow I doubt it. The ride in was uneventful except for a half-mile sprint where I took the entire lane and caught all the green lights to where I turn off. That was nice, but probably added to the sweatiness.

I think I keep running into this blond in a white infinitum car on the way in, in the mornings.

Crashed for the first time on the road since commuting last Friday. We were riding on this almost-ready-to-be-paved section of road that was closed off to traffic until Friday. Friday morning the newly paved road was open to traffic, so we knew Friday evening we'd have a bit of a different route somehow. Well, of course it was all new and different and confused every driver on the road; not to mention the fact that for us it was way more crowded on the road since we were riding home an hour earlier than normal. Needless to say we couldn't safely cross over to get to the old side of the road that was now closed off (they're widening the street) so we stayed in the skinny lane with drivers, which thoroughly either confused or angered everyone around, but I was trying to get up on the white curb to ride as opposed to the new asphalt. Forgot I had a locked out fork and skinny tires and as I tried to go up the inch gap I just crashed into the curb and dirt shoulder. Luckily no road rash, just a few scrapes and bruises.

Otherwise commuting has been fine. Legs are dying this week. Will probably have to go down to commuting 3 days a week to recover from leg day on Tuesday at the gym and get ready for riding approx. 30 miles and climbing 6000 ft. over the weekend on the mountain bikes.

hahaha. That sucks.
They did that on this big road that my apartment is by. And while it's not confused the drivers a 3 lane road where i pull onto from my apartment turns into a 2 lane road with no shoulder. So needless to say I have to some how navigate my way into the 2nd lane with traffic competing for my lane :(
Sorry to hear about your crash :(

Not much new to report. I've settled into the 3-day-a-week commuting scheme with a longer group ride on Thursdays. I pile on a long ride on my roadie on the weekends. I think I'm up to about 100 or so miles a week on average.

I miss san antonio :( I was easily putting 150 miles a week in the summer. I'm getting about 60 miles a week commuting