Somewhere between 700-800 on this one, I think. First time for me. I keep the bike fairly maintained (not really babied, not really neglected) but I beat the crap out of it on my commutes. It was certainly my own doing.

Just another learning experience.

As per my commute today, carpooled it in. It sucked.

Not sure your experiance, but I've snapped every Shimano chain I've ever tried, and never yet broke a Sram... I get about 1500 miles on a chain before it's stretched enough to replace. you prolly know this already, but keep an eye on it - if it gets too stretched it will eat your (expensive) cogs and chainrings as well.

My commute was awesome: slight tailwind, gorgeous weather, averaged 17+.
Cheers

I am officially the biggest wimp evar. I have 9 miles and it takes me 60 min... I was using the mountain bike as an excuse but now I can't do that anymore... sigh. ;)

Today was lovely - first time I've gone the full distance with Sir Lancelot (1984 Raleigh). I think I'm getting the hang of the friction shifting, and wow is that bike ever lighter than my Norco Pinnacle! I was taking it easy and still took a couple of minutes off my time.

The only problem was that evidently I didn't tighten the seat nut enough after adjusting the tilt last night. I had to ride the last mile and a half kind of perching on the seat and trying not to get tipped off backwards! Off to beg a wrench and some Loc-tite from the maintenance guys...

Wow, it is the best weather here! 80°, sunny not real humid. Pity to be working right now. Going to have to take off early and enjoy it. Raced a squirrel over a bridge today, that was fun

Nice weather this morning. Got my 12.38 miles into work in 38:17. New record for me. 19.4 mph average, which is another personal best.

Home commute last night was also a personal best. 10.60 miles that direction, broke my 40 minute barrier at 39:38 and averaged 16.0 mph. (Uphill 750 ft climb going home.)

I only have a grand total of 300 miles since starting, but that's 300 fewer miles on my car. 12 rides in May, 10 in April, 4 in March.

Great weather on a friday = reduced traffic. I am soooooo skipping out of work early to go get pints...

Actually left early enough so that I could ride at a leisurely pace. I had to anyway since I'd left my spd shoes at work (had to take the van home last night), and since I was wearing my dress shoes, there'd be no hard riding or skidding.

When I come through midtown towards the Capitol on L Street, I have a nice bike lane all the way until the edge of the park (15th and L, if you know the area). Because of the timing of the lights between 16th and 15th street, I always have to wait for the light at 15th. What I've started to do lately is to take my spot dead center in the motor lane at the light and just hold that position all the way to 11th. Since I've started doing this, no one has buzzed or even honked at me. I'd mention that in A&S, but I can't stand the pissing and moaning there. So I thought I'd just share that with you guys.

Nice slow ride w/ wife. Ran into strip-mall-mate halfway in, so it was quite a caravan the rest of the way.

Been commuting in the hot weather all week (except Monday). Sticky in the mornings and hot in the afternoons. I have seen a lot of cyclists out on my way home, mostly roadies but some other commuters.

Found out this week that I am finally getting a new frame for my newer road bike and that it should be back together this weekend :)

Today's trip was great. 22C and gentle breeze. No cagers tried to kill me today.

Great commute and got lucky with timing on my nightmare intersection at the end of my commute.
I just came to the stop sign waited till my turn with the cross traffic then went across and didn't even get to the stop light when the light went green and the two vehicles in front started moving up the hill and left on the highway. No one even behind me so I could just glided accross the 6 lane highway at my liesure with no one to buzz me.
Wheeee. Nice start to June! Hopefully this is a new trend.

Neat commute home today...

This morning, I set a PR with an average speed of 19.8 mph. I knew I'd be slower on the way home, but for my first stertch, I had a most generous tail wind that allowed me to go over 29 mph. "Sweet" I thought. Maybe I'll do even better on my speed! Well the tail wind became a cross wind, even a head wind at times, so that idea was shot.

I did turn onto a road behind another cyclist, and after drafting on him for a couple miles, I passed, said "hello" and continued on. Shortly later, he passed me again and asked for directions. He works for CBS sports, and is in town covering the PGA golf tournament.

Cool trip, neat encounter!

Hang in there Buglady. If you're a commuter...you are not a wimp. :D

Had 2 beers at the work-social and had an extra 3 miles to the homebound ride. Road real-easy...it was a very nice 16mi ride.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Motorcycle today instead of bike ... I am not that brave on fridays.

Over 100 for my commute home yesterday.:eek: Ride home was nice, but left from center of town and all uphill, oh well. Ride in was interesting, just about got clipped by a dude pulling a jet boat as he was swerving to miss a car turning left. You would think with the bright lime green vest I would be more visible. I am glad my bike and I were agile enough to get out of the way.

Have a great weekend all!!

I commuted in today (Saturday) for a special event at work. Murphy's Law being in full effect, my alarm didn't go off and I woke up 15 mins after I was supposed to BE here :eek:

I made it in 45 minutes :D - which means I had to be averaging 20kph, and I'm pretty sure I hit 30 or more in a couple of stretches (because there were some lights I had to stop for and a couple of slower uphills). I realize that's not very fast for most of you (20 kph = 12.5 mph; 30 kph = 18.75mph), but my usual average speed is 15 kph (not quite 9.5 mph) so this is quite an accomplishmentfor me!

I was on Sir Lancelot, 1984 5 speed Raleigh touring bike.

Also, I broke 500 km for the year to date! Yay me!

After last weekend's 52 mi trip to Parker I was tired for most of the week. However, yesterday I put in 30 miles running errands around town. Today I went to church (Radiant Church), 20 miles round-trip and I felt pretty strong. I'm starting to enjoy the trail system around Colorado Springs. :D One thing I am NOT liking is this afternoon thunderstorm daily ritual... :(

GreenAnvil

Wow, did I ever get soaked on the way home! :D

Great ride in this morning. Beautiful sunrise and lighter traffic. I love summer.

Nice empty roads at 5am plus as a huge bonus all the lights decided to work for me today instead of leaving me stuck waiting for a car to come trigger them!

Slightly on the wet side of moist. :) Supposed to rain all day. MUP population density, 0.8 per mile. I love rainy days.

Yay! I can finally post to this thread.

Second commute of the year, details as to why its only my second commute of the year can be found here: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=304549. A nice brisk, and overcast morning in the mid-60's, with nothing but open roads down suburban and city sidestreets. Went 8.75 miles to the carpool meeting place in 32:30. Should have a nice tailwind for the ride home, and today should mark the first day I'll get a ride home in the rain. I'm not wussing out unless its raining sideways and crashing lightning all around me. :D

Huuuuuuuuuuumid. Yuck.

Ah well. At least I owned the MUP thanks to the lingering wet. Looks like all the other commuters wussed out today, just me and 2 runners over 4 miles.

Good ride, misty and humid but the trail wasn't too bad (I actually like riding on a wet trail). It's been a hard morning and I was xhausted (allergies still kicking my @$$) but I decided to take the long way in (adding roughly 2.5 miles) I need to start upping my mileage. I guess I'll be dodging thunderstorms on the way home, oh well...