Foggy, snowy and cold this morning. Rode the xcheck and loved it. So much faster than the studded-tire singlespeed mtb. Everything was covered in a light dusting of snow. Very lovely. The first time I have had to turn the lights on in the morning.

20 degrees in our nation's capitol today. Rode the fixed to work for the first time and enjoyed it a lot. The pain of my stolen Cannondale commuter is still ripe, but it's helped along its way by my increasing enjoyment of riding the fixie through rush hour traffic. Some day, one day, I just might be a badass. But... probably not. Maybe a grayarea-ass or a mediocre-ass.

:D :eek:

hairlessbill, people tell me I like the color yellow (I have a yellow bike, and wear a yellow jersey and black-and-yellow socks). Based on those pics, you must REALLY like yellow!

42F Adding mileage back to the route now that spring is coming.

freezing fog...Is snowy looking. Looks like snow..probably IS snow! As long as it isn't YELLOW snow who cares :D

Jinx.

I guess it looks that way. My Chrome bag is also a full yellow but really I bought it because it was available. Also my Ducati was originally yellow. Okay, maybe I DO really like yellow! Hmmm, yellow shoes....

Bloody cold today. Big time headwinds and windchill. Fabbed up some handguards from 14 ga aluminium ala dirt bike brush gaurds that worked reasonably well. Just too cold for fingered gloves no matter how thick. Need to dig out/find the inner gloves for my lobster claw miits.

sleet, i can still feel it pelting my face like pin pricks. first time I've come across that.

heh. i had a rheumatologist's appointment on tuesday, so i bought me a floor pump with built-in pressure gauge afterwards. finally got to find out what kind of pressure i've been riding on with those snow studs. barely 20 psi . . . well, i thought the commute was feeling like an unreasonable amount of work these past weeks. going round corners is fun with the tires at their recommended dry-road pressure; you get this zzzziiiipppp sound-effect as the leaning angle brings the studs into contact with the road again.

kind of fighting off the side-effects of a new/extra medication, but hopefully it'll move the benchmark back up in the long run. right now i feel mostly preoccupied with a barfing motif.

I'm so used to the colder temps. 20F is feeling distinctly warm.

Yesterday managed to run an errand at lunch time in downtown Boston in such short time that I can guarantee that no other mode of transport would have been as efficient. Nothing short of miraculous that I accomplished what I needed in such short shrift.

I really love riding along the frozen Charles River on the way in and home (at night). I'm so tempted to just head out onto it on my studded snow tires and ride into Boston that way- this is, of course, a ludicrous idea since there are sections of the river that are barely frozen over and some areas that have no ice at all but.... the idea that I could, hmmmm......

saw a rat tonight- again. fantastic rides these days, though.

Beautiful sdawn this morning - Look east this morning - it's worth it.

Whoo, 19F and 'realfeel' of 10 this morning. Nice and crisp. I usually pass a number of commuters going the other way (into DC) but only saw one this morning. My commuter is a Kona Jake. I probably could have gotten away with a road bike with fatter tires, but the knobbies sure come in handy on packed snow days like this.

First bicycle tracks end-to-end on the MUP today. Some peds with dogs had been out in the snow before me in a couple of sections but otherwise I had a nice untouched ribbon of powder all to myself. :) Temperature in the single F digits.

Got into the city and the roads were so mucked up with wet, sloppy, salty snow that I opted to ride on the sidewalk for the 3 blocks between the MUP and my office. :o I dismounted and walked around a pedestrian. Good for me. :D

Today went okay, though i my legs were tiring out faster than usual (probably since this is only my 3rd time doing my bike commute and i did it yesterday too).

Oh, and my right knee started to get a slight twinge of pain... Probably from my cleats so i adjusted those when i got into work. My road shoes have been adjusted to perfection (i've done 64 miles with no knee pain), but since i use MTB shoes for riding to work they don't have many miles on them so i haven't really been able to tell if they're adjusted well or not. We'll see how things feel on the ride home and over the weekend.

Totally wonderful today - probably about 65 F - clear, not a lot of humidity. Dry road. It was paradise. No cows or chickens either!

Knee issues were an issue for me when I first started commuting. Some proper stretches, and down shifting on hills instead of just mashing up them dealt with it nicely, as well as the occasional icing when I get home when they still hurt.

32f, dampish, foggy ride in. Very fun.

I am glad i went to fatter (1.75inch) tires. there is a lot of sand leftover on the shoulders from the ice a while back. No way skinnies would make it through safely.

There was a body covered by a sheet on I-35, they had it closed down. Looked like some poor fool tried to run across the highway & got nailed.

Yeah, i didn't get to stretch much before heading out. I spin going uphill though. :) Fortunately the the majority of the route home is comprised of a big 4 mile downhill run (which i had to climb this morning). :( :D

Thoroughly damp but at least the rain had stopped by the time I hit the road. Generally fine ride though. No other bikes sighted, a 1st for this last week or so.

Well the fog is mostly gone but it was cloudy and I left an hour early which meant lights on. Pretty quiet that early. Had two foxes run in front of me and then chase each other around a field. Good stuff.

Unbelievable! I'm still sick! The ride in today was gruesome. Even with the spikes, the bike was almost impossible to handle, with the front and rear ends going wherever the hell they wanted to. We're in 4-6" of that awful snow/sand mixture overtop of black ice on most roads. I'm going to shovel my route through Mount Royal on Sunday afternoon...

edit: On the way home I almost got taken out by some **** in a truck. First he gives me a toot of the horn to let me know I should be riding in the snowbank instead of on the road, then he passes me with inches to spare, and he obviously has 6' on the other side to use up. I gave him the finger, which was less effective due to me wearing mittens instead of gloves. &%^$#@%#&^!!!!!!!

Cold and short, but nice. I am picking up one of our boys at a play date after work, so I parked the car at his friends house and biked from there. The arboretum is right between their house and my work so I took a bit of the scenic route. One of the roads in the arboretum was a sheet of ice. The nokians handled it beautifully. Will probably go back there the same way.

street ride in and the MUP home. lost my balaclava so had to buy a new one but I like the new one better.

I am just plodding along on the bike these days. slow and steady into the wind on the way home.:o

Glad to be riding pretty much every day through this January and February in New England. The cold is manageable but it's the lack of snow that's made it doable- I'm sure I've jinxed it now.:rolleyes:

Good hard rain riding in on the MTB. My Redline 925 finally came in today. This evening I set it up to commute tomorrow. Once I get it set up how I like it I'll flip the wheel and try riding fixed. I envy caloso and his no foot commute. Someday...

That's probably how Superman feels sometimes, but don't get carried away.. :)

The ride in to work yesterday afternoon was a fairly uneventful yet joyful ride. Since it hasn't snowed in a week and the roads are dry I came in on my skinny tired commuter.
Now, at 3:00AM, just 3 hours before I get off work I see we have about an inch of snow on the ground. NOT looking forward to my morning commute home on this bike but I'll make the best of it!

:lol: Yeah, I feel like Superman but I'm moving like Elmer Fudd. :rolleyes: