Excellent ride home. After attempting to fix my front flat problem 5 times I ran out of patches and tubes. Left the bike locked in our data center. This morning I took the train in with 2 new tubes and a patch kit. While slowly inflating the tire I noticed around 40 psi the bead was lifting up. Moved the tire and slowly inflated it. All is fine. Don't know why that particular part of the tire and the rim did not work together. Anyhow, I can not stand these tires and have lost confidence in them. The heck with a new stem. Time to purchase new tires. Red michelin pro races!

Oh and the commute was nice and warm with plenty of attractive women out jogging and sunbathing while dressed appropriately. What a good day to be out and about!

The heat is here....104 on my way home, and it's only going to go up from there.

My goal was to ride every day this past week and I hit 50%........... a blow to the head by one of our special needs students........severe behavior disorder. Apparently I was out for a couple of seconds and principal required me to go to ER to get checked out. Mild concussion.......no riding for a week! It's Saturday and I'm still fuzzy in the head............friends would probably say nothing new!!? Two days of school next week..........unable to ride either day but Wednesday AM, no more commuting, I'm leaving on a 2 week bike camping trip to Canada and every hotsprings I can find!

For the first time I can remember, I was fast in the morning and not in the evening on the Friday commute. Still a nice week of riding even if I was only able to ride four of five days.

Ouch! Glad it wasn't worse. Re: Hotsprings, After riding all day there are few things better than sitting in the hotsprings, BUT, do not expect to ride more than a mile or two afterwards. From personal experience, I can tell you cycling is somewhat problematic when your leg muscles have turned into something resembling well cooked noodles!!

Last week was a good one, apart from the driving rain and hail on Weds going home. Oh well, after you're wet, why stop?
Nice rides in the morning, early enough to be cool, and light on the traffic, the afternoons have been a little busier, but all in all, enjoyable.Expecting delivery of the Heron this week, that's going to be fun.
Ride safe.

Another glorious morning. :) High 50s and sunny. No wind. I was about to enter the MUP and a rather attractive young woman in roadie dress, riding what looked like a pretty nice road bike, came off the the MUP, made a U-turn in front of me (not dangerously), and then took off in the same direction I was headed.

I had mounted my knobby tires on the Liquid over the weekend for some trail riding, so I decided to see if could keep up with the woman. She was actually one of the fastest riders I've encountered on the MUP. We were cruising along at about 20MPH, and it was making me work with those tires, which were singing loudly. :eek: I imagine she heard me back there. I hung with her for 5 miles until I turned off onto the street close to work. Great ride. Fast!

Very nice commute except for the MARTA bus # 2765 which buzzed the h@ll out of me on North Point Parkway. The bus was less than a foot away from me while I'm doing 25 mph or so on a slight downhill.
WTF is a public transportation vehicle doing buzzing a cyclist? To make matters worse, right after he's past me, he moves over to the left lane which was open the whole time. I think I'm going to call and complain.

Man, almost got hit again today! On Thursday a guy decided to do a rolling stop and hit his brakes just in time, and today a truck took a shortcut behind a building and almost hit me as he was pulling out from the side. Other than that it was great

Here is a tale that makes it clear why when in doubt - ride...

PART 1

This Sunday I had to teach some cycling classes pretty far away (Scarberia, for those who know Toronto). So I took my new beautiful Specialized Tricross and set out. I went through three tranquil ravine paths (without getting lost even!) and hammered through virtually empty Sunday-morning roads catching every green light on the way... Lots of fun. :)

PART 2

As I was teaching, I got a phone call from my mother who said she was coming to pick me up and give me a ride home and then maybe go out together. Since she lives kind of far we don't see each other that often, I agreed to the arrangement. So she came and after my classes were over, we started putting the bike in the car. And you could see that the bike didn't want to be put into the car. The handlebars were just wide enough to make it difficult to push the thing into the trunk. The brakes were a beotch to disconnect for some reason: I just gave up and let the air out of the tires and pull the wheels through the brake pads. And the worst part is that at some point my mother apparently got tired of holding the rear end of the bike and just dropped it!!! Not from a very great height, but still, just dropped it on its carbon seatstay... WTF?? Why can't you lay it down gently? That bike is LIGHT and at that point the wheels were off already which makes it lighter still.

Anyway, eventually we stuffed the poor beast in the car, suffered through miles of boring highway (at least there were no jams) and arrived at my place. And as I was assembling the bike on a grassy patch near my apartment, I managed to step into dog poop with both of my new bike shoes. And I mean REALLY step into a BIG pile. With BOTH shoes. What a ****ing mess!

CONCLUSION

I think it's pretty clear which part out of the two is more fun. ;)

Haha chephy... $hitty ;) :p Which ravines/paths? Rouge valley? :D

I had a slow ride home on Friday partly due to some alcohol and just wanting to take it easy anyway. Didn't ride all weekend, barring a jaunt on one of those quadricycle things at Centre Island, which was admittedly a lot more work than I had imagined (though it was 80% me-powered while still having another adult and young child on the thing :) - good workout nonetheless).

Slowish ride in today, an annoying headwind and just feeling blah generally but still felt great to ride in. Caught the train crossing again, looks like that's becoming a regular for when I leave the house at a good time.

Another slow ride today complete with bike hogging the only decent parking spot available when I got to work. After a week of moving his bike around to accomodate mine, did he learn? Yes! He chained it in such a way to make it harder to move. Not impossible so I moved it anyway and locked up.

First commute in two weeks (vacation), yay! Nice morning for it, about 70, light wind. Riding the roadie after two weeks of mountain biking took a little adjusting. Riding into the university in the summer is nice, so little traffic.

I'm working in Toronto for a month, and had my first commute in this morning (yes, I brought my bike with me). Have to get used to the traffic patterns, but it was a lot of fun.

Bah. Had to drive again. Huge thunderstorm/tornado warning shake the windows over and over and flood the house kinda storm last night. Was out sweeping out a room with water on the floor at 3AM so no sleep for me until 4am.
Got up at 8 so had to take the car. :-(
Car 20minutes bike, 1hr+ :-(

My wife realized two blocks from home that she was missing a foundation garment, and told me to head on without her. That was the most exciting thing that happened to me on the ride. Oh, it was sunny for the first time in a week, so that was nice.

it's official: I'm a bloody psychic. Had a dream last night I got a flat tire on my bike. Guess what happens 4/5 of the way to work? I did the 3km walk of shame as I so rarely get flats I don't bother to carry a patch or a spare.

Pinkrobe, wasn't the sun nice today? Last week was so damn gloomy. But I was surprisingly spared from rain for the most part. Got sprinkled on a few times. Thursday I hammered like a time trial all the way home to avoid getting wet. I thought it was going to open up just as I was getting home, it rained for maybe a minute and a half.

I actually had a chilly ride this morning. Basing my clothing on last weeks' weather not the actual temperature, I chose to just wear a short sleeve 'coolmax' type shirt. Little cold on the arms for the first kilometer or so. Seemed to warm up after that.

Uneventful slow commute today. I had an Ultimate Frisbee tournament yesterday against teams whose average age was probably <25 (I'm 38) and my legs/glutes let me know they're NOT happy with me today. Took it nice and slow.

Ibu.....I need Ibu.....

My new Paramount had her virgin ride this morning. Apart from some minor adjustments she handled well.

caged it today...but i road hill repeats yesterday...so i am good i hope...

Nice ride this morning. A little windy. Getting to the point where I'm feeling comfortable with all the hills around here, and my 4mi commute is starting to feel like child's play. I'm going to have to find alternate routes to stretch the ride to at least 10mi one way.

My GF 29" is a workhorse, but it's heavy and with relatively fat tires (38) is kinda slow. I'm thinking of a tri-cross to pick up on those days that I wake up and feel like I want to travel light and go fast.

GreenAnvil

Had a pretty fast commute today even though I was out riding around for 22+ miles yesterday in the heat. Lots of traffic out this morning and everybody in a hurry as usual, but no big incidents. Gonna be near 100 this afternoon for the ride home.

My rear casset started acting up on my on the way to work today. It would skip from teh 4th gear to 5th and back to 4th, if I shift to 5th gear it does the same to 6th gear. If I shift to 6th gear it's fine which sucks cause 6th gear is starting to get hard and I like to be going 35+kmph to use it with a high enough cadence.

I guess I'll have to drop it off at the LBS tonight and walk home. :(