Flimflam

First commute with inlines on my roadie drops, just means I can stay on the tops when needing/possibly needing to brake - which is nice I must admit. Regular commute otherwise, feeling tired myself, body feels fairly fine but I do need to stop the late nights so often. Got passed just before my MUP turn-off by an older guy on a roadie, was nice to see him steam on through, I said a 'morning' but he had what looked like ear buds and a hearing aid in his right ear (he passed on my left) and didn't respond.

I'm not so happy with the way I get across Lakeshore now, so I might go back to my original "go through the Ex. grounds" route, which cuts the corner out and means I don't have to do a pedestrian crossing to come off the MUP (which is where my problem/hassle is). I also stopped riding across Dundas St. W to Sorauren, because I was getting genuinely tired of the stress/hassle of the streetcar tracks and single lane construction/traffic - plus now (or at least last check) Lansdowne was torn up across all 4 lanes now, so it means a sidewalk diversion to take that way home.

Pics of my drops with the inlines on:



From my vehicle gallery: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...1&id=696475547

MyPC8MyBrain

It was one of those beautiful morning where I am clearly not inspred to go to work. So I just puttered around on the way in. It's way to nice of a day to have to sit behind a flippin keyboard.

Tonight a tandem ride through downtown is in order I believe.

timthorn

Relaxing ride, heavy humidity 70's, that allowed me to stretch out after a lovely Sunday morning run. I am not looking forwards with the anticipated 23 degree increase predicted for this evening return, but been through worse.

pinkrobe

The wind really picked up just before we started riding today. I thought it might rain, but it didn't - it was just really humid. The skies have already cleared, but I do expect a sprinkling later today...

HardyWeinberg

Nice ride. Dropped Thing 2 and trailer at daycare, then straight up hill out of town to work, rather than detouring to MUP. Stopped at office depot to pick up 200 blank DVDs. Put them all in one pannier which was apparently way outweighed by the other. I think the result was probably the most balanced load I've had in just about ever, and it really felt great on the bike, like as smooth as w/ no load at all but measurably lower center of gravity. Cool effect.

Itsjustb

No commute today
Frisbee tourney yesterday
And wife home with me

Dwighty83

Nice morning. Around 65 degrees. Crisp cool air. Nothing too special though. Although on the light rail I looked out the window and a homeless man taking a Hit on a crack pipe...at 8 am. gotta love that!

gmule

I had weired encounter with a motorist last night On my way home from work. I was peddaling along at a decent speed when a guy in a red ford f-150 slows down to pace me. He rolled the window down and asked me if I wanted a ride. I replied back that I had a ride but thanks for the offer and I waved him off. I figured that would make him go away but he just kept pacing me for another mile or so insisting that I take the offer. I ended braking hard and making a U turn behind the truck and turned off on several side streets to lose the guy but man that was a wierd situation.

devildogmech

R U Young and Female? Not hard to believe that he might have been a creep wanting to do bad things..... or just weird?

Billy

gmule

lol no I am a 40 year old guy.

Mazaev

Haven't posted here in awhile but I've been commuting quite regularly again. The humidity has really kicked in last week and I came in soaked a couple times (wearing jeans over bike shorts and a jersey on a 9 mile ride). Today I got a pair of Endura Zyme shorts and they're quite the improvement (they're nylon, but look and feel like cotton). I have no problem wearing bike shorts in general, but I don't need a bunch of trader types giving me "the look" in the morning, although it is amusing sometimes.

The ride itself was nice and pleasant as usual. I love riding at night. It's cool, fewer cars out, and they're much easier to detect with lights and such. None of the day-time traffic and crazyness. Legs are sore from a long Sunday ride (solo 130 miles, 12,000 feet of climbing) but in a good way. Off to enjoy a tuna wrap.

mhifoe

Fantastic ride home yesterday.

The record breaking rain has ceased, to be replaced by warm sunshine and a gentle breeze.
I drafted an agricultural tractor and trailer travelling at about 25mph for half of my commute, giving me my best ever time of 1:05 for the 18 miles. Sweet.

vtjim

Low 60s. Comfortable. I saw hundreds (if not a thousand or more) cormorants (black waterfowl) launching out of Lake Champlain and forming a tight ribbon of bird, flying in a graceful arc along the shoreline. Never seen anything like it. It was quite a commotion.

Reeled in 4 womenz. Two riding together, turned off right before I passed. One I passed. One I stayed behind because the view wasn't bad and I was turning off myself soon. Saw some folks headed the other way, including a full-kit roadie maintaining a brisk cadence. I'm kinda glad he was going the other way and not behind me.

luckysnafu

Warm and sticky this morning. Felt good to be back on the bike though, I took Friday off to do errands and yesterday due to storms. My legs were ready to go and I was cruising to work, made pretty good time but my cyclocomputer is on the fritz, saying my usual less than 8 mile journey was 14.4 I have to figure out why it's reading so much higher than it should be.

Itsjustb

I can confirm luckysnafu's report--warm and sticky. You know it's gonna be bad when it's already 70 degrees and 95% humidity at 7 am.

Uneventful ride this morning.

HardyWeinberg

Nice sunny fast ride.

One JAM (it took all 6 cylinders to lug her across lanes) cut me off to get from left straight lane to right straight lane just in time for a red light, then didn't go when the light turned green. I passed her on the right to get to bike lane (which began the next block), other cars passed her on the left to get to wherever they were going.

pinkrobe

To my dismay, I watched a biker cruise along the sidewalk, and then incessantly ring his bell at a throng of people waiting to catch the bus. They jumped out of the way just in time. The worst part was that there is a path directly behind the bustop that he could have taken that is actually faster than riding on the sidewalk. If it was me waiting for the bus, I'd push that ****** into traffic.

workingbike

Great, just what we need, some dingbat making people mad at all cyclists.
Where was this?

caloso

Had a pucker-inducing moment at the very end of my commute this morning: as I was turning into the parking garage my rear wheel slid out. It's just at a red light and I must have hit some oil on the asphalt. It was only a few inches and I caught traction almost immediately but for an instant I thought the bike was going to skid out from under me. Thank goodness it wasn't the front wheel that skidded like that because I probably would have gone down.

Otherwise, an uneventful ride in.

juliebeanpie

Haven't posted in a million years. My commute this morning was especially nice. The birds were chirping in the trees. Overhead the sky was a bright clear blue behind the foliage of the huge trees that make an archway along the park path. I felt lucky to be there, and I didn't want my ride to end. Alas, here I sit in front of my computer. Oh, well, there's always the ride home....

Flimflam

Had a great ride last night, was back & forthing with a fast guy on a mountain bike/hybrid between lights, etc. - once I got onto the Bloor viaduct I dialed it up past him to scoot along at ~30mph for a bit. I was *cooked* when I stopped at the lights at Broadview, he caught and stopped behind me and I said "man, that damn near killed me!" and he smiled and replied "yeah, you don't want to be doing that kind of thing in this heat" heh - felt cool to have that friendliness there, and glad I got chance to chat to him as we'd shared a good number of blocks riding. Having him to pace myself, I made it to the east end in near record time.

Good ride in, went up Strachan alongside a dumptruck (without those lovely and safe guardrails) and was very conscious of the 'wheel sweep' issue that's killed a lot of people in this city.

Uneventful ride in otherwise.

Edit: on the way home last night had some nimrod riding along the Bloor viaduct bikelane, no lights (OK, so there is sufficient street lighting, barely) going the wrong way. I had a guy in front of me with no lights going along with me, and I honestly almost didn't see this other dink - I did my customary "wrong way" yell and shook my head, but this is twice in two days I've had this happen. I can hazard why people do it (eastbound far right lane, next to the bikelane, feeds into the highway, so cyclists have to cross this lane to get into the regular street continuation), but it doesn't make it any more right or safe.

vrkelley

Good news, the MRI showed no Miniscus tears..."just" bad bone bruises...still off the bike

Buglady

Let's form a posse! Heh

doktoravalanche

Had someone try and overtake me on a road that was so narrow that i was able to kick out behind me and hit their headlight. I think he was trying to ride right over me... I would have got out of the way if there had been any space..

Other than that, not bad. At least it wasnt raining...

workingbike

I'll bring the tar, you can do the feathers!