Another nice morning today on the way in. Saw about 5 other cyclists last night on my way home and a couple more this morning. Not as sunny today but cooler, temps in the low 70s which is a nice change from the high 80s from yesterday.

Ahhh man what an awesome spring. This has been the best spring ever in Dallas. it was 58 degrees again this am, clear skies, sunny, cool breeze out of the North. Amazing ride in. Loving life right now.
Cheers

Beautiful morning, though rather chilly for May. I rode my newly assembled single speed for the first time and it made me feel pathetic on the hills. :o

This morn I started my commute (11.5miles in) with the idea that I would go easy due to some slight knee pain yesterday. Oregon City was about 43 f degrees this am at 5 ish, so I brought my wind proof tights
to help my knees to stay warm. On the road everything was OK (even though its hard to ride easy when you feel good), at the 3-4 mile mark I was passed by a guy older than me(I'm 50), in shorts and a t-shirt, he was riding really strong. I had to really work at not chasing him down, man I tell you that was tuff to watch his light disappear in the distance.

My wife and I caught up to a scofflaw on the way in to work, but he got away from us by cutting off a car and evading a cement truck. Beyond that, the ride was warm, dry and easy.

What is a scofflaw?

Yes... and go back and use it on the dog's owner. No way a dog like that should be off the leash.

Today's ride was just the typical awesome morning. Nice and cool, not much traffic.

As a bonus I found $.75 laying in the street. I usually ride past the pennies and nickels, but looped back to pick up the booty. How does money like that get in the street ? Seems like I see odd change all the time.

Some cell phone yakin' bimbo buzzed me pretty close. I didn't care much I guess. It's a shame that it gets common enough to elicit no reaction.

One month to RideTheRockies. I need to really start pounding the miles or I'm going to be hating life :)

Getting my Bike Commuter of the Year award. I'd say the commute was pretty good.

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Nice morning, no wildlife sightings today. Got to work and realized that (a) I'd forgotten a clothing item (let's just say my jacket is staying on), and (b) I'm supposed to be at my sister's house at 7:00 *with* all my gear for camping this weekend, but I'm working till six and can't get home in time to get said gear and back out to Sib's house (I live south of work, she lives north and east). I should have brought it in with me. Drat. (Though I'd have had to take the bus, and I can think of few things more annoying than hauling a 45-lb backpack on Calgary Transit, especially the crosstown trip to Sib's house)

:beer:

Kind of a rotten ride this morning. Went about four miles when I noticed I had left my locks at home. So after turning around and picking them up, some moron doing about 60 in a 35 nearly takes off my left arm. Somewhere this morning I lost my sunglass. Oh and I got grease on my pants.

Still better than driving.

I got to practice my panic braking on the way home yesterday. I approached a guy walking his dog from behind while a car approached from the front. Car passes him when I'm about 20 feet behind. He immediately releases his dog's retractable leash and the puppy heads across the road. :eek:

Thankfully, I was going slow enough to stop but it wasn't graceful. He apologized. I told the guy he should look behind him and not count on his hearing. He got defensive and I pointed out that I might have been a car and smooshed his little dog. That struck home with him.

I got home to find a little cut on my calf from pedalstrike in my ungraceful stop. :(

Is that a Rabobank waterbottle?...


Well, seeing as today was "bike to work" day, I decided this was the perfect time to take the plunge so to speak and start a semi-regular commitment to commute three days a week. Ride was wonderful, no sun, nice steady breeze coming of the ocean, but not to strong that I had to fight it. A slight mist, and just an overall pleasure to get out.

I beat a big t-storm home yesterday. The sky opened up two seconds (literally) after I put the bike in the garage and walked in the back door. If I'd taken the trolley, I'd have been drenched on the walk from the trolley stop. Heh.

Scott, after the year you've had you more than deserve it. Congrats. :)

Commute today was uneventful. I'm coming down with something (and 2 co-workers are out sick; guess it's going around) so headed home early.

Commute was hectic. I woke up late. Almost didn't ride in---then looked outside and checked the weather, saw it owuld be nice, and realized I couldn't live with myself if I was too lazy to ride in today. 15 mph headwind--not very fun. Got into work 5 min late. Oh, and my lungs are killing me---either because I have bronchitus or something or because I have been smoke free for a month and they are trying to eject the crap I put in them for the last 15 years.

[edit]---Oh, and then I dropped the arm of my dress shirt onto my chain and spend the first 20 min of work trying to get out a grease stain in the men's bathroom and explaining to people why my arm was all wet

Awesome, Scott :beer:

Ride out East last night was fun, lots of wind/rain burn on my arms and legs, but was just fine. Ride home in the evening was different, it had cooled a lot and I was actually pretty cold - so I stopped shortly after setting off and put on my fleece. Rode the rest home with the fleece on, which was a wonderful thing - so glad I had it as backup.

Ride in today was nice, pretty much uneventful again.

Apparently tomorrow is Bike to Work day for Toronto though I can't seem to be able to confirm it. Bike Week starts on May 28th so I don't know if I heard wrong. Either way, I'll still be riding. MTB time again tomorrow, as I'm hauling the trailer back in the evening with my daughter in.

Congrats - that's awesome, keep it up! :beer:

Could be worse... I went to scrub off a spot of chain grease on my leg, only to find it's a lovely series of bruises. Totally ruins the effect of my best skirt suit! (Bigwigs visiting today. I guess I'll stay behind my desk!).

I find my lungs give me trouble when I am overtired or on cold days. I have had problems with exercise-induced asthma, but it seems to be getting better. It does take a while for lungs to recover from smoking, but good on you for quitting!

Wonderful ride in this morning. It was cold but thankfully no wind. I noticed there were much more bike commuters on the roads. I actually had 3-4 other commuters with me where I'm normally alone. Nice to see people get out of their cars and on their bikes. I'm just hoping that they will continue to do this after today.

IMHO worrying about getting hit by lightning is ridiculous. Example: pick a tree at random. It's many times taller than you, is out in every single thunderstorm, and even so one in 10,000 will ever be hit. When's the last time your house was hit? Probably never. Most houses never are. Same logic; out in every storm, way taller than you, and heck, it has copper wiring up in the air to attract the lightning.

I just don't worry about it. Besides, I found out last year that heading out from under the awning at work while the smokers are under there watching the lightning and dime-sized hail coming down definitely cements your "crazy person" reputation. Just tip your head down enough that the visor protects your face; hail hitting lips is no fun.

Cold!

Yay, Scott! Husband of the Year as well.

And welcome to Bruin11 and DonKristoph! You've stumbled upon the Secret Society. Someone will show you the handshake and code word.

I had a long and fast ride this morning. I'd planned to meet up with a group of legislators and staffers for the ride to the Capitol for Bike To Work Day. Unfortunately, I just missed them as they went over the Freeport Bridge. I continued down 160 towards the Delta for 5 miles or so. When it was getting close to 7:30, I realized that they were probably early and had already gone across the bridge, so I turned around and TT'd back up north to the bridge. Over into Yolo County and picked up a tailwind, so I was down in the drops and just flying. Never did catch the group but when I got to the Capitol, the BTW folks gave me a ClifBar and some water plus some goodies.

Fairly strong headwind while coming up the river into DC. I hope it'll be a tailwind this afternoon for the ride home.

The weather yesterday kept a lot of people home, so I had the trail to myself.