Chilly this morning but nice. I saw four deer in the park and got to work with one minute to spare. :) It's supposed to rain soon but hopefully it will hold off until I get home as I didn't ride my nasty weather bike today.

Good. Cagers behaved themselves.

Got into a lot of unexpected mud taking a cool shortcut. Yay, MTB-ing! :D

A near 'tangle up with 2 dogs on long leashes (running all over). Narrow miss. Otherwise a good ride round-trip

Commute home wasn't bad. Much drier than the ride in. I did the whole ride home today and that was 20 miles. I think there is a shorter way, but the way I went I stop by the store my wife works at to say hi since I won't see her tonight.
There was a near run in with a dog, but an alert owner (albeit stupid as he didn't have his dog on a leash) saved me there.

another fantastic tailwind for the ride in today.

Came home a lot slower on the bike path tonight. had no desire to rush home anyway at the end of a long day.

First day back commuting in a while. My wheels needed to be trued badly and I never had time to get to the bike shop. I finally had a friend true them and it made a world of difference. My dad had the day off and rode in with me. It was nice having company. At an intersection we heard a dog barking. We turned to see where the dog was and found it in the yard of the house on the corner... with another dog getting it's morning jollies. :lol: We ended up getting honked at. We typically ride side by side on the big streets as they are wide and there isn't much traffic. When I passed the guy that honked, I noticed the fire fighter sticker just as he drove by and gave me the bird. The ride home was uneventful for which I am thankful.

Yesterday I was riding home and spotted a roadie, pretty far back. I decided to see how I could hold up with the Transworlds instead of the old knobby tires. I cranked it up to 20+MPH (400 watts!) and maintained it pretty well. He never got closer once I spotted him back there. :o

And then there's this alert that just came in this morning... :mad: :cry: :crash:

Discovered Monday night after my bike was creaking the whole way home that there is a crack in my frame where the seat post meets the top tube/seat tube. Took the bike to the LBS last night to have them check it over and they couldn't believe that it was cracked where it was. I am hoping it will be covered under warranty but I haven't heard back yet. Drove in today due to rain but I am going to get out my old MTB tonight and get it ready for tomorrow.

Nice ride in, but the ride home may not be so good- supposed to rain, and my rear fender is on my MTB from the weekend...

On the other hand, I may get out of work early today due to IT doing some work on the servers, so at least if it's a rainy ride, it'll be before the evening rush hour.

:eek:

Interview today on the other side of town in the afternoon, no bike :( First time i've driven to work in well over six months. First time my wife's commuted by public transit in over a year. I hope her experience was a good one.

Nice and bright and brisk on the way in today. As I was going in today I saw a friend from college going into a building close to where I live. I stopped and we chatted for a minute, and as she turns to go into her building she says 'have a nice ride' and I say 'you too' and then correct myself with 'have fun at work!' ... I hate that, but it's still pretty funny when it happens.

ARGH! People are irritating the crud out of me!

Riding down my nearly empty 5 lane street to the MUP. I was in the right lane like normal watching a motorist pulling out from a side street and then the driver attempted to pull out directly in front of me. HA! I foiled her\his dastardly attempt at clobbering me due to the fact I had already switched lanes. Plus, I could see this happening a mile away. It doesn't take a genius to determine that even with a reflective jacket, reflective tape on my bike, a bright blinkie strategically placed on the right side of my handlebars, and a headlight that motorists still won't see me. For god's sake they can't even seem to notice semi trucks. Anyhow, the fool honked at me. Uh? Where upon the motorist received the universal sign for WTH? followed by several one fingered salutes.

Later a camouflaged ped scared the heck out of me. No harm. No foul.

30 minutes after that I rode under a train bridge and was alarmed by the fact that there was two strange persons on either sides of the trail. I pushed it up to 400 watts and hauled arse out of there. Then I blew up. :p
Finally, I was in a crosswalk that I use to meet up with a small MUP I use, where a brilliant blonde lady blocked the crosswalk and then some with her gargantuan SUV while chatting on a cell phone.

Apparently I should have worn my oscar the grouch jersey today instead of monday. Back to sulking in my garbage can.... I mean cubicle.

Uneventful ride in, though I did see a guy carrying a cage of chicks on the back of his bike -- very cute. A guy on the bike next to him tried petting one through the mesh, but it ran to the other side of the cage.

On the way back, I took the long route. There's one part that always scares me -- a pitch-black two-lane bumpy underpass on a sharp blind turn. Not so worried about traffic behind me, but oncoming traffic gives me the willies. As I was passing through this section today, I suddenly saw headlights reflected on the wall, and the sound of screeching tires... when my heart started again, I realised the sound came not from the cars in front of me, but the cars ABOVE me (over the underpass). Creepy. The rest of the ride was uneventful except for a strong headwind.

Bright, sunny ride in. I may have to switch to darker lenses in my glasses. It rained/snowed last night, but all that was left on the road was little 2" circles of frost. Even these went away by the time we got to a well-travelled street. So much for the 4" of heavy wet snow that was predicted.

Nice sunny-ish ride (still some fog). Low 40s (F). Caught most of my lights, atypical.

No ride. Working from home to care for the baby while my wife runs some errands.

Picked the right day; the kid had us up several times overnight, and I've been up since 5.

Cool and rainy. Just the way I like it. Keeps the riff-raff off the bike path.

yesterday, I got in just as a bunch of minor crises broke out at work, and I pretty much spent the entire day in bike clothes. Didn't get a break until 1:30, when I left for lunch, and by that time I figured that I'd just skip the shower for the day. Also, wound up having to leave my laptop at work since it was in the middle of uploading a ginormous zip file to a client's intranet site and I didn't want to stick around to wait for it to finish.

So, since I didn't need to bring my PC home, and since I hadn't used my office clothes, yet, I just left my panniers at work and rode home unladen for the first time in what felt like forever -- just me, the bike and a seat bag with tools and spare tube. Felt like flying.

Ride in was also a pretty nice, and it was neat to be able to get out of the house without running through my daily checklist of ensuring that everything was in my panniers. Just got dressed, ate breakfast, got my keys and left.

Now, I'm looking for excuses to leave my panniers at my desk for another day.

No commute for me this morning. Shoulda have been up at 4:30 to head out the door at 5:30. I woke up at 6:15, so it was the motorcycle for me this morning.

Wow... traffic can really get bad downtown! I rode along a stretch of Queen St. (a two-lane street with streetcars) I rarely ride and, boy oh boy... Everybody is stopped because of streetcars, lights and (mostly) other cars, there is no room to filter and the damned streetcar tracks are just waiting to catch your wheel... Ugh! I actually walked my bike on the sidewalk in places which was much faster.

And, hell, are we gonna get some nice weather this month or what? It's cold, windy and generally yucky.

flat on the way home...peddled 13mi home anyway

Hate how the weather says it'll thunderstorm all day, you heed its advice, and then it ends up not even raining.

No go.

Yeah, I've ridden Queen St. on Fridays at rush hour before -- it's great because you're going so much faster than the cars, but the danger of getting doored is massive. Nowhere to escape! Glad you got through it unharmed...


Edit: As for my commute, I took the long ride in this morning. Fantastic, but it's definitely not winter any more ... need to start wearing a different shirt for the ride in :(

feeling a little tight today and not terribly fluid on the bike. It felt more like an effort than it has in a while. Maybe not enough recovery from two long fast rides on the weekend and then two days of commuting in high winds- the rides in have been fast sprints with lots of spinning and the rides home hard workouts into the wind. I definitely need some recovery rides. Took it nice and easy on the way home.