Another great morning means another nice ride in. A little warmer this morning though so I was pretty hot by the time I got to work. Saw some more cyclists on my way home last night and the news had coverage of the local ROS. I didn't even know they were having one around here otherwise I would have attended. Next year I will though.

Took it nice and easy on the way in in an effort to keep the sweating to a minimum and for the most part it worked. Still sweaty, but not as bad as yesterday. Traffic was terrible too which kept me from going too fast.

+1 though of COURSE it's the one day of the week I HAVE to take the short route home (Wednesday just started up summer bowling so I gotta go straight home to get cleaned up for that...)

On another note...if your ever out someplace (say a bowling alley in New Mexico for example) and see that they have deep fried Jalapenos...and think they would go great with a big cup of root beer...I don't recomend eating an entire order of them. Really, you just need a few, and then FOR GAWDS SAKE, GIVE SOME AWAY!

Due to deep fried Jalapeno's after effects, I spent extra time "getting ready" this morning, and didn't get out the door in time for my long ride.

Had a fun ride home yesterday. On the path above 96 st up through 125th, me and another rider were trading off doing about 25-27 mph.

Had my second flat in a month this morning, and all from pumping up the back tire. The valve stem got cut last time and broke off this time when I tried to take the pump adapter off the valve. Nice ride in anyway.

Still had to come in early today, but I got an extra hour of sleep [missed my alarm]. Fast and clean on the way in, too warm for shants!

Nice outside and light traffic, but I felt like lead. I don't know if it is allergies or if I'm coming down with a bit of a cold, but I am so slow today. Ugh...

Luckysnafu, you might want to subscribe to the RTP bike commuters mailing list. It had several announcements about the ROS. It also has lots of info about other advocacy stuff in the area. The url is https://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/rtp_bike_ped.

My commute: Better than yesterday's, when I broke a spoke just as I arrived at work. Got the spoke replaced last night, but it made me miss the ROS (plus I didn't want to tell my wife about the Ride. We have an unspoken agreement. I don't tell her about the incredibly stupid/dangerous things I see drivers do during my commutes, and she doesn't try to convince me to stop riding. Attending a ride to remember those injured/killed while cycling would be like waving a flag in front of her).

Rain. All 6.4 miles of it. 50F degrees. No wind. Instrument meteorological conditions.

There were still a few die-hard types out training for the marathon.

My bike is filthy.

jack, What you failed to realize is that the bumper sticker was an instruction to you and all the other vehicle operators on her road.

Bike-to-work day today here in the San Francisco Bay Area. My route took me to two Energizer stations. Got lots of freebies. One dude at the Fremont REI was just yappin' away with the station volunteer. I could tell that the yapper was boring the hell out of the volunteer. I don't think the yapper is a real commuter, just there to yap and get freebies. He was not in a hurry to get anywhere.

It was a good wind.
This chart shows the 10-min averaged wind speed for past 6 days in Tempe. Note the wind increase that occurs nearly every PM commute:


weather station data here:
https://www.tempe.gov/wx/weather1.aspx

Al

Nice ride today, no dramas that I can recall. Potholes in the B.U. Bridge have have been paved out so it's easier to take the lane and stay with traffic. After work rides have been great. I put down 25miles yesterday, I'll do about 15 today and again on Saturday....my first Century is Sunday .

I missed my miles goal because of all the rain we had so I'll have to pace myself, I'm use to short hammering rides.

Big headwind today on my way into work. I hope that means I'll have a tailwind on the way back!

My daily commute, short though it is, involves crossing one major street. I usually wait with the cars at the light, then try to take off ahead of them and get going a good clip before we all stop at the first stop sign -- about a block away. My goal is to make it up to the 25 mph speed limit before reaching the sign.

Today was the best ever: 24.4.

I'm almost there!!

Other Durham commuters: come to Mad Hatter's at W.Main and Broad TOMORROW a.m. for Bike to Work Week stuff...

- free food, coffee and prizes for cyclists. The Durham Bicycle Chain will also be nearby with a free bike check-up station and prize drawings.

https://www.bikewalkdurham.org/

Well, looks like a 100% ride week or what I call a century week since my ride is 10 miles each way. Switched to an old Trek 820 Antelope someone loaned me as my AD-SLE died. Takes getting used to but after a while it is an even a better workout! For May, of the 280 potential commute miles that have passed MTD, I have biked 220 of them. Travel took 40 away, a Monday 'whimp out' took 20. Not bad so far for May. Looking like 80% for May. It is hard to do 100% with kids, work and graduation month!

Today was the only day I've commuted by bike this week. Combining moving, finals and horrific allergies just doesn't aid the bike commute process. However, an empty gas tank and need to do maintenance on the car does. So I rode in today. It was an uneventful ride the first half; made a stop by the post office. The second half, my allergies got the better part of me and before I knew it, I was a sniffling, snorting, sneezing, mucus dripping mess. Then I started getting nauseous, and almost felt like I was having an asthma attack. I think pubilc transportation is in the works for the ride home.

Coming home last night as I rounded the corner onto shephard there was this homeless person. He goes "only 40 more miles". I couldn't help but smile.

Beat the rain by a minute. I know because a minute later I was walking in the rain to my car. Alternate side of the street parking sucks.

I decided to suck it up, deal with my allergies and just ride home. I had a short day, so I took my time going home. Almost got hit by an a-hole Suburban driver who ran a red light to turn right right into my lane. I saw him though and yelled "You wanna stop?!" I guess he heard me because he slammed on the brakes causing me to have to swerve around him nearly missing his rear bumper. He pulled up next to me and had his wife yell some explicits at me. I gave him the one finger salute and turned left behind him. Apparently I pissed him off cuz the next thing I hear is tire squeel. I look behind me and he slammed on the brakes and whipped a left right behind me. He pulled along side, wife screaming profanely. She stopped long enough for me to say "Be a man and stop having your b%$&h fight your battles." He finally passed me up and the rest of the ride was pleasant. If anyone in Sacramento sees a dark blue 2000ish Suburban with tinted windows being driven by a redneck looking guy with long hair sporting Indiana plates numbered 30 F 4121, watch out.

Thanks, mister. I'll be careful on the way home.

My commute today has been great, bright and sunny and cool in the am, I am about to ride home and it is nice and sunny and warm. Supposed to rain for the next week though... my first commuting in the rain, can hardly wait.

the usual, 6.5 mile dst, cagers seem trained! why does no one else do this (bicycle commute) in s nj?

Nice ride both ways, picked up a goodie bag and a banana at the Bike to Work energizer station. i hope to see some of these new commuters next week. caloso, did you ride with those representatives from Antioch?