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:

Nice ride in the pouring rain both ways. Rode single speed on the new 925, will try fixed Monday or Tuesday. The moustache bars look odd, but feel natural to me.

45f and overcast, wind from the SE, nice ride, little traffic. averaged about 17mph, not bad for a sleepy SUnday ride.

not exactly a commute but heres yesterdays ride

enjoy

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Sunday, my favorite commute day of the week. Rain in the morning was light, and it was dry in the evening going home. I've been commuting over a year and my coworkers still ask "you rode your bike?". Now I just ask "Did you drive your 9 passenger suv with just one person in it?";)

I couldn't look- too painful to look at pictures of beaches with summer sun and warmth! :eek:

lucky you. I'll send you some pix like that next July and see how you like it. :p

Gotta first time ever back to back honks this morning. It was about 6:45 am. Both drivers immediately turned into a school bus motor pool parking lot with lots of buses pulling out. I think they were late for work. I just happened to be the last thing they slowed for and I got all the rage. I can just hear them now.

"Sorry I'm late, I got stuck behind some jerk on a bicycle."

Boss - "You couldn't pass?"

"Well yea but ..."

"So it took you 15 minutes to pass this bicycle? Must have been one hellavu a bike"

:D

Sssshhhhh!
:D

Nice commute this morning for me. Light tailwind. Temperatures in the low 20s F.

Some time not long ago I passed 1,000 miles on the Trek. This morning the odometer said 1,050. That's mostly commuting miles, since I bought the bike in September. ~50 gallons of gas.

snow has fallen everyday for the last week. yesterday it snowed all day. the roads in the suburbs are unridable, so I sidewalked surfed 80% of the way to work. i'm not proud of it, but i did feel like a soldier when i got to work before the doors opened and there was a cager sitting in his running car keeping warm like a little sissy. I stripped down outside can i was overheating. riding the sidewalk taught me one thing, there are a lot of people who don't shovel their walks.

a chinook is on the horizon.

No riding today, did some mega miles yesterday so I decided to stretch my legs with a walk in. I know I was walking because I saw MapTester, who probably thinks I don't own a bike anymore.

Got rid of the combination brake & fender rub on the front wheel this weekend. What a difference it made! So much less effort was expended and as a result, I was sweating less and pretty comfortable the whole ride in even though it warmed up to 32F this morning.

Passed by the remains of what looked like a weekend accident. Wood splinters were scattered around a manhole that had a 4" deep square dug around it. It was also blocked off from traffic by a sawhorse. Looks like a car bust through the previous sawhorse that was blocking it off, hence the splinters. As I rode through the splinter field, I heard a loud POP! and thought it was the car next to me, then thought it might've been my tires. Turned out to be just some random unexplained POP! so I continued on to work.

edit: The POP! was not a gunshot.

Ah, -19C today, and I'm finally over my cold. My wife wimped out and took the bus, but I made good time by leaving 5 minutes early and taking the lane. As Wulfheir mentioned, the cold should be done by Wednesday, and then we're in for a big fat Chinook. It will be -17C riding in, but -1C riding home. At that point, we'll be riding in slop for a week until it all melts away and I can go back to skinny tires.

I passed 8 people going the opposite way from me into DC this morning, this is way more than usual for the winter, and on a par with the highest days in summer- I guess the NoVA folks have gotten used the the cold, or maybe wanted to get in a Monday commute before this next storm hits. Actually felt pretty warm this morning, esp compared to Saturday, when I rode up the C&O Canal Path but could only manage an hour b/c my feet were starting to freeze solid.

Had a pretty good commute today until the chain on my Lucas Valley snapped. Silly me forgot to put the chain tool in my pack after switching to my larger camalbak for the winter. Ooops. Luckily I had already compledt 10 miles of my 13 commute and I was able to get a ride the rest of the way from a buddy at work.

Howerver, the trail I ride on was glare ice. So I spent 6+ miles loving my W106 studded tires. Just amazing what you can ride on with those, if your careful.

32 degrees in our nation's capitol this morning, and like knucklesandwich, I saw quite a few commuters out this morning. It wasn't warm out by any stretch, but after last week's cold run, it seemed very nice out this morning.
Am still adjusting to doing my commute on a fixed gear. Love it, but I'm definitely more out of breath by the time I arrive at the gym. Good times.

First week of my new 1 day on 1 day off commute. Trying to see if having recovery days on Tue and Thurs helps. Those days I will weight train at the gym. I am also wondering if I will be able to hammer it in Mon, Wed, and Fri. Quality over quantity.
That and today is the warmest day this week. Wed should be in the single digits to low 20s. Brrrr.....