That was me. I will keep an eye out for you tomorrow.

Totally foggy this morning. I was dressed well, but it is always colder on that stretch from Hunter Mill to Vienna. My least favorite part of the ride. And I was very damp and my bike was soaked just from the fog once I arrived at the office.

Coldest day of the week, but least ice and very little snow. Weather supposed to get a lot wetter/sloppier tonight.

Warm and foggy morning today with temps in the upper 50's. Uneventful ride to work but I made good time even though I was trying to take it easy. Got kneed on my leg playing soccer Sunday and can still feel it after riding so I'm trying to take it easy. Gonna be a hot ride home with temps in the low 70s.

fixed.riderI'm only doing 1X a week, so it'll be next Wednesday. I commute 1X a week, work from home 1 and drive in 3, if I'm in the office. I might switch to 2X and do Tues/Thursdays, but I don't know if I'm hard core enough to do 4-5X (it's a 43 mile round trip between Herndon/Ballston). My bike was a little damp, but I was no wetter than when I'm just sweating normally. I had to take my shades off, though - they kept fogging up.

I found a neat trick for drying stuff out at the office. We have a stand-up fan in the locker room, so I'll slip my jersey over the fan like a wind-sock. When it's on high, it dries out in less than 5 minutes. Same thing goes for the shorts and tights. While I'm shaving, I'll slip each sock over the hair dryer (on cool), and I can dry both before I get done shaving and brushing my teeth.

It's me again...I'm back to commuting. Wifey had the baby, I sold my car so I'm back to dodging doors and aimless college students...joy :rolleyes:.

You don't sound so happy. Congradts on the baby. Hopefully, you are getting more than 1 hr of sleep a night.

Congrats! (Sounds like sleep deprivation.... Enjoy it. Us dads have all been there.)

Congrats pops! Don't ride when you're sleep deprived.

Didn't run into any other BF'ers on the way home. Ride home was the usual craziness which I think will get crazier as the holidays get closer. Lots of livery cabs and drivers just milling around, pulling out randomly and double parking wherever they felt like. Not to mention the doormen hailing cabs and cabs sweeping out of nowhere to pick up and drop off.

Snowed in yesterday. Drove in today...bike lanes have about 6" of snow and the roads are not plowed. Came home early...another storm on the way.

congratulations!:beer:

I'll watch for you on Comm Ave- I take it on days when I'm running late.

today I was running late and went in on Comm Ave and home via the bike path. Comm Ave is mostly memorable if I survive it intact weaving around the BU pedestrians and construction sites. Not a bad ride in today- I really needed to shake up this cold I've had that has settled in my lungs but it felt laborious occasionally gasping for air as I coughed and snotted my way down the road- I'm sure I'm a gross sight as hack along.

The ride home was great. Somehow the cold shifted and it felt like the clouds had parted in my head. a misty damp ride along the bike path with not a breath of wind.

The weather was once again beautiful here in the Bay Area! :D

I am enjoying the fact that it hasn't rained too much yet.

Update on the commute.....Even though it was foggy this AM in NoVA, I had a good ride in. Felt good climbing the hills, and kept a good pace (having a rider along with me helped).

On the way home, though-I felt like I was flying. I was a little warm because of the long-sleeve jersey and tights, but was able to push some bigger gears than normal on the ride home...and set a new PR for average speed.

When I did this the first time to work and back (21.5 miles each way) back in August, I averaged 13.4 MPH and really struggled to get that. Today, on the way home, I averaged 17.1. On a Trek 7300 hybrid. I can't wait to see what I can do on the road bike......

hideous. temperature 0 but dense freezing rain in a headwind over 20kph with gusts up to 35, and several inches of powdery snow/ice everywhere since it started snowing 8 hours before i left. my mars taillight went completely toes-up - fortunately before i mounted it and rode merrily off thinking it was still working. i have taken a scunner to blackburn the size of which would harrow your soul, if i had the strength to express one-tenth of it. i replaced the batteries and then replaced the blinkie, which involved removing one bracket and remounting a different one in the exposed bike cage before i set out. i got as far as the bridge, and then i gave up. i couldn't keep my eyes open against the rain, couldn't see anything when i did, and was getting direct eyeball hits even with them closed to mere slits. was getting a bit scared about myself whenever i thought of walking over the bridge, so i just went into a starbucks and had a hot chocolate, phoned my kid to reassure him i was alive, and (eventually) caught a series of buses over the bridge and up the hill. i rode about a kilometre home from there. with the wind at my back it was actually pretty pleasant. i am going to be so glad when it just goes back to raining all day.

the woman in the starbucks was so horrified she wouldn't take money for the hot chocolate. half of me thinks she was right, the other half is disappointed about that wind. it might have been a nice ride without it.

It was eerily, unnaturally warm this AM at 62F. The dew point was in the high 50's and water was condensing onto the cold pavement. Very weird! Other than that though it was a fine, uneventful ride. My seat bag was unzipped and my tire levers clattered onto the pavement. Luckily I heard them hit so turned around to pick them up. Supposed to be ~75F this afternoon which will be our last freakishly warm day for a while at least. Supposed to rain tomorrow so will drive to work.

35 degrees, rain, and very frickin windy. I put the studded tires on my bike last night since the weatherman is calling for snow tonight or tommorow...man am I looking forward to that:)

Note to self: Going through a deep (6 inch) puddle is alot of fun, but your toes start to freeze after a couple of miles...)

Every morning this week it has been getting warmer and wetter. I am glad this will be the last "hot" day because I enjoy the colder weather. I had to stop at the bank to make a deposit which added about half a mile to my commute and put me on some busier roads. Also had a woman pass me in a 25mph zone while I was going at least 23 or 24.

I had to drive the car today because of a meeting out in Loudoun (I couldn't talk my coworker into riding the 30+ miles out the W&OD to the meeting). I enjoyed watching at least half a dozen bike commuters pass me while I was sitting in traffic on the George Washington Parkway.

23F and headwind today. I swapped my cranks for compact last night, and the 34T granny helped on the big hill with the wind.

I need to figure out what to do with my toes, especially in the wind. I wore wool socks with zip lock bags and booties, and they are still cooler than I like. My shoes aren't big enough for 2 pairs of socks.

I'd also like to find a balaclava with better ear coverage.

Haven't read/posted here in a while--crazy busy at work the last few weeks. It paid off-I didn't get caught by the lay-off happening in my dept.

Finally got the cyclocomputer working on the commuter. It CAN'T be right. I'm riding an MTB with slicks and a trunk on a rack. My average speed this week has been 15.6mph with a high of 25mph. That seems fast to me. Is it???

A couple of good ones from my commutes this week. Tuesday a driver in a pickup lays on the horn, on a 2-lane each way plus a center turn lane road. He's not even in my lane, and there's no one anywhere around; he did it just be an a$$hole. I wave to let him know I hear him...and then the light in front of us changes to yellow. I speed up a little to catch him at the (now red) light. He runs the red to get away from me before I get there. COWARD!

This morning another pickup nearly hit me. I'm taking the right lane, which is an RTO and ends about 75 yards ahead. I'm going straight, so I need to get over. I check shoulder, see a pickup a good distance back and in the left lane, and signal that I'm moving left. He speeds up, buzzes me (missed by maybe a foot), then gets in the right lane. I figure he's turning right up ahead--I mean, why else buzz me then change lanes, right? No. He now gets back in the straight-thru lane and speeds up again (must have been doing 70 in a 55). I don't need to tell any of you--never used a signal in any of this BS. He's probably the 6th or 7th driver who's done this to me on that stretch of road; I wonder if I should ask the local sheriff to post a car there?

All hail the mighty chinook! Not the salmon, the mass of warm air that flows over the Rockies and causes massive temperature shifts. For example, yesterday morning I rode to work in a windchill-induced -38C, just like on Monday and Tuesday. Today, I rode to work with a gusting warm wind at my back, -1C as the ambient temperature, but it felt like +5C. So sweet!

Thanks guys, I've actually been riding for a bit now...I just haven't been posting. Lately the baby has been going to bed on average at 10:30pm and waking at 3A.M. and again at 8ish so I'm getting pretty good sleep. He's 11 weeks old so it's getting better.

Bumper to bumper traffic on Comm.Ave today which meant I was a lane splitting fool :eek:. A bit damp as well but the raceblades kept the muck off.

Congrats on ducking the blade. And check the tire diameter you input into the comp to make sure it's for your tire size. You can do a roll-out test to get an accurate measurement if you don't trust the chart that came w/ your comp. The speeds you listed are attainable w/ a mtb. I've hit those same speeds on my mtb, usually when there's a tailwind or no wind at all.

This morning's commute was super slow. So much traffic packed tightly together made it hard to filter through. Saw a couple bike cops along the route so I figured I'd play it safe and not run red lights even when the peds were doing so.

When I got to work, the Salvation Army volunteer had set up her donation stand next to the bike rack so I locked up, and donated $1. Hope she watches my bike for me.

-4F on the way in and ofcourse I get my first flat ever! Luckly it appears to be a very slow leak so I just pumped it up and rode it. Will take a better look at it at lunch.

Also fell down on some ice but was going about 3MPH so managed not to hurt myself of bike.

Still had fun!

The LA basin is being scoured by Santa Ana winds. This one's cold (for us) and blowing like h*ll.
My morning commute is dead into the wind. At some points I was in a 39x19 and barely able to grind along.
If the winds don't die before quitting time I'll have a rocket sled ride home!