pleasant riding this morning
very little wind and i felt like i had power legs, my commute starts uphill and i felt great

didnt see any other bike commuters and i could easily get by cars and no one was angry...its always nice when you are not being honked at...more room to ride too!

i think it was 30f when i left the house, i think i overdressed a bit but i was pretty comfy
i love just the right amount of air pressure in the tires, nice feeling

looking forward to the ride home!

Excellent easy ride this morning. 60's and sunny. I've been riding with a fellow train commuter, Bob, who bikes the same route as me to work in Irvine. It's cool to have someone to chat with in the morning and it makes the few miles fly by. (If you're out there, good luck at your mtn. bike race this weekend Bob!)

Hung over.

My commute now rocks, i can't believe i never tried the back roads after the henday opened up! Picture deserted country roads almost all the way. No stinking exaust and the only honking i hear is from the returning canadian geese.

A bit of a headwind this morning. I'm looking forward to the ride home.

Two cagers yelled at me to get off the road, one adding 'before you get yourself killed', in the span of less than a minute. :mad:

Granted, I did have a bit of chain skip limiting me to 20 km/h where I normally do 30 km/h in that stretch, but still, that was uncalled for.

Another great day to ride to work. A mild 28F in the morning and a great sunny day with light winds and 40F going home. Sounds like the weekend is going to be a bit warmer.

Really fricking humid. I think weather.com said it was 98% or something.
And it was in the high '60s, but felt 10 degrees hotter b/c of the humidity.

One of my Nalgene bottles made the ultimate sacrifice as well. (Well, the cap did.) It doesn't fit in the cage so I had it in a bottle pocket on my backpack and it fell out while I was sprinting. I looked back but didn't want to turn around in the heavy traffic so I retrieved it on the side of the road later today.
The cap was bent into a V but the bottle (though slightly scratched) was none the worse for wear.

I'm gonna keep buying their products.
As for the bottle pockets, I'll be a bit more careful.

You all can blame me for the snow that's coming down now... I took my studs off yesterday

great ride in today - except for the headwind. Yesterday's was equally as enjoyable. Been going in to work later these past couple of days so I have had daylight going both ways for a change.

Looking forward to the ride tonight 10-11 pm or so - nice and quiet and usually a total of 5 vehicles pass me

I unfortunately didn't bike in to work today.. 2 inches of snow on the ground and I'm definitely not snow equipped on day 3 of riding, lol... tomorrow should be better, I'm looking forward to the ride. Strangely, I've been kinda down all day, might be related to the lack of riding. It's weird, but I think it definitely has an affect on my mood, even after this short amount of time.

nice ride in this am great ride home. Not a soul on the bike path. sweet ride.

now that I have my studs off-it's going to snow! ahhhhh!:eek:

My Aksiums have held up well. I generally destroy wheels in a few months, not these.

I don't ride in Brooklyn so I'm not sure how it compares to riding in NJ.

another day that just keeps getting more interesting more of a relaxed flow it Thursday you know.

Okay, who took their studs off in Calgary? That was one nasty snow squall. (Wasn't me, I don't own anything better than knobbies...)

Luckily I looked at the forecast and decided not to ride today. Couldn't risk the migraine (it hit while I was in Costco... joy).

I don't think the mid-Atlantic is going to get anymore snow this season (he said while knocking on head :D ).

Been a nice week of riding--as always for me, the early morning ride in is stellar (in more ways than one). Mid to upper 40sF with no wind to speak of. Nicely warming afternoons, too. But it's kind of in-between weather. Not quite warm enough for shorts. Oh well. Some problems are nice to have...

absolutely beautiful morning! just a bit of a headwind on one section of my commute.

about halfway through my commute, I saw a faint red tailight up ahead of me. was not sure if it was a bike or not since it did not have that typical 'up and down' movement, but I kicked it up a notch to try and catch up (I was excited - I NEVER see commuters while I'm commuting!) after a few light delays and what not, I finally catch up to him and find that it is a slow moped! It could ot be doing more than 15 as I caught up rather quickly and with a steep hill too. I think I surprise him at the end of the street because my Fenix was in blink mode and reflecting off the stop sign pretty good - newly charged batteries :D

This was the first day all week I've been able to commute. Stupid freezing rain and snow :(
It felt great coming in this morning, but there was a strong headwind. At least it'll be at my back tonight :D

Not so bad. Just a hint of lake-effect flurries to let you know its springtime. In Chicago.

On the first part of my commute, I managed to catch the green on a series of traffic lights through Evanston. I never catch these on a roll, and was wondering when my luck was going to change. I started muttering things like, "Dang, another green light, come on, change, change" in a futile attempt to deceive the fates. My luck with the lights turned when I got to Chicago.

Tuesday it was 32F degrees on my morning commute, today it was near 60F. I'm gonna have to learn what clothes to wear all over again with the change in seasons. I was overdressed this morning, probably moreso from fighting a headwind all the way to work. I've got lots of layers I can peel off for the afternoon commute, however, when it's supposed to be near 80F.

The sun is coming up earlier every day, so my morning commute should be all daylight again by early April. When daylight savings time started, my morning commute was thrust back into darkness the whole route. But now it's daylight for about half the ride. The sun was just coming up over the horizon when I got to work, and it was a beautiful sunrise.

Drove today, but on the ride home yesterday, I was buzzed on the MUP by the rider of a pocket bike
http://www.minipocketrockets.com/images/rider_tall.jpg
heading the opposite way... doing 20+ mph, I'm sure, with a second person riding on the back!

So these pocket bikes cost about the same thing as bicycles or even a little less, but they burn gas (-1) and require no effort on the part of the rider (again, -1). These can be real menaces when used in the wrong contexts - that is, almost any context. (They shouldn't mix it up with traffic of any kind, motorized or otherwise.)

Traffic was light and slow, which meant that I could easily draft off of cars and slingshot around them. Such fun!

Today is my first day back on my bike since early November. Feels great! It was -3C with a -9C windchill this morning, but I was toasty warm. Of course, now there's a winter storm watch on for the weekend with 25 cm of snow coming, so it may be another week before I'm on for good. Oh well, spring is here, if only theoretically.

cold and drizzly. Looking like on the way home it will be cold and rainy. Actually had respectable average speed for am commute despite 6 yr old going s-l-o-w-e-r t-h-a-n u-s-u-a-l for the first leg.

Seems like I managed to miss every stop light on the way in today. Some days you sail in, some days you spend half the time waiting for the light.

most of the snow we got has vanished already. No work today, but I took a little trip to the store. Uneventful trip other than having to do the "land mine slalom" because someone didn't stop for their dog to go and must have made him poop at a trot. One more reason I love my fenders. I didn't hit any that time, but I have before.

After much angst, having replaced my crankset and finding shifting impossible to dial in, last night I lowered the FD (ahem, duh), got it all tuned, cleaned the chain all nice, put on fancy dry lube, victory! I did my own bike upgrade! I'm gonna ride the hell out of this thing!

This morning, after seeing weather reports of a small chance of scattered showers: big, fluffy snow. In Vancouver, in late March. WTF? I have no safety excuse, I was just ground down at the thought of another cold, windy ride.

Feh. Took tranist. Rides to work this week: 2. *sob* :cry:

Woke up this morning to a steady rain. "Great", I said. By the time I got ready to leave it had died down to nothing. I got all bundled up in my rain gear for nothing. Even tho it was just a light 'spittin' type of stuff. I'm gettin' used to riding in at 4:30am. It's so nice and peaceful. Gives me time to contemplate. I've got the news on my radio. The roads all to myself. I enjoy that. A friend at work tells me that her husband is "considering biking" to work to save gas money. I gave her a few links to pass onto him to give him some info. Including this one. For all you newcomers, or folks getting ready for the warm temps. The important part is TO BE SEEN. At least get a tail-light or two. I have three. PerformanceBike has them on sale. And as much as it sounds corny. DO follow the rules of the road, as if you were driving a car. Stop at Red lights, I go thru Worthington everyday. And I stop at the light at 161/High St. if its red. Even if no one is around. I just mosey on up to the crosswalk button and push it and the light changes for me. You don't know how many times the cops have seen me do this. When it comes to Stop signs. I do rolling stops as much as anyone else, but use caution. Give the right of way if you have to. We're talking about waiting for 15 sec. or so. Try to set a good example for other bikers. We know that the cagers are impatient. But one good thing about riding a bike is that it slows the world down. Be safe and practice good habits. Peace out.....Oh yeah, the ride home this aftn was great. A little chilly, 42f. But once again, I had the bikepath all to myself.
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wind was almost with me, Both ways!! went in with bike shorts/goretex rain top and home with shorts/t-shirt!
again, i did not see another bicyclist during todays total of 82 minutes/21.7 miles....traffic seemed better, and i rode 2/5 days this week.
feels good to be starting back up~~!
t

Cold front came back in with 13+ mph headwinds. Although it hit 59F earlier the temps dropped. I ended up putting the glove liners, arm warmers, leg warmers, and silk balaclava back on.