Holy smokes? Where TF was the owner in all this? I'd SURE to talk to him after this. Beat the dogs off if necessary and give him a darn hard time.

Even if you don't talk to the owner, call animal control - especially if this incident taught the owner nothing and he continues to let his dogs run around. No leash laws doesn't mean you can let your dog run on public roads and bite passersby!

I was reading up on pepper spray. There is a shop here in Winston. I think I am going to pick some up.
If I get a chance to talk to the owner, he looks about 70 years old, without getting attacked again, I am going to tell him he owes me a new pair of Sidi Carbon shoes.:) It doesn't matter mine were 4 year old Diadoro's (On sale):D

Once they started in on me, I never looked back. I have no recollection of anything he might of said. As I mentioned in my post I can't remember what utterances I was making -Screaming, cussing, or whimpering. I have heard of this condition when you hit a certain level of fear/stress where time slows down and you don't hear of feel anything. Surreal. I'm hoping to train them myself with some pepper spray.

Nice, uneventful, sweaty ride in. No dog bites :-) or run ins with construction vehicles. Even saw 2 other bike commuters at ~ 6:15-6:30AM, a fairly unusual occurrence for me.

A little warmer than yesterday morning. Not too bad though. A thunderstorm passed to our north and gave me a few hits of really big rain drops, but not enough to get me wet (or cool me off.) Saw a few people riding the other way, passed a couple of others going my way. I was full of energy today.

Yesterday's ride home saw 95F on the bike computer. :eek: I took it easy. Did a little woods riding. Got home feeling warm but not as bad as one might expect.

Good ride in today, although it's been hot. I've been back to riding my road bike after using my Raleigh Twenty for a week. The Twenty's fun, but there's no doubt the road bike's faster.

warm, muggy, very uncomfortable. icky. sweat dripping down my arms onto my palms & grips.
Otherwise, a very nice ride. Lite traffic at 6:30am! ;)

My commute this morning was pretty blah. I've had to shift my usual river crossing from the beautiful ped/bike only Stone Arch Bridge (closed for emergency vehicle use due to the 35w bridge collapse) to the extremely busy 3rd Avenue bridge where I got buzzed by a black VW bug. Then going through a neighborhood about 1000 ft from the office a railroad crossing had a train just sitting on the tracks not moving, prompting another detour down a really busy street.

However, the weather today is fantastic. The dew point is really low for once, temp is in the mid 70s, and there isn't a cloud in the sky.

No dog bites, and not much traffic either. Everyone is taking today off in advance of the long weekend...

Being that I have a job where I'm carrying 40-50 pounds of computer crap to
different offices and am in a different office every day and also might have to
jump out to a different office at any given time I've not been commuting much.

But, what happened is my wife recently got a commute worthy road bike and
since she wanted to ride in today I figured I'd go with her halfway and then
turn around and head home and get ready for work.

So the ride in was fairly leisurely from Bloomington (MN) north on Penn to
Lake Harriet then she continued north to her work, I split off and sped up
around the lake and headed south to home.

It's been at least two years since I've been able to actually commute and
I miss it. Maybe if I find a different job downtown I can get back to that.

Lots of fun, I hope my wife gets into it actually. She called me and was
quite excited about getting to work under her own power. For me it was
a nice 15 miles or so.

Must be nice... My wife thinks I'm nuts :D

My ex. didn't have any affection for the bike, despite my trying :)

I found and bought a Bianchi last night (see the C&V forum for pics), in somewhat rough shape and it's an old steel road frame, but I'm going to make this my fixie project. All kinds of excited about that :D

No dog bites for me, rode in on street level for a whopping 3 miles of sprint-ish action, warmed up behind a guy hauling ass on an MTB (17mph was respectable, he had bigass knobbies on too) and took the lead after - he was with me the whole ride with various boom/busts with lights (hit 28mph but lights meant I had to keep stopping), I pulled over to let him come by as I was slowing for my office turn off - wished him a good ride :)

Nice ride. 25 min mile to start off (well, 8 minute .3 mile) w/ 6 yr old on scooter to daycamp, then turn around and zip to work. No encounters of note.

This mornings commute was a nice one. Saw one of my freinds who was out for a jog, so I slowed down and coasted alongside for a few minutes while we chatted. Then we went our separate ways and I took it pretty easy coming in. 8 miles in 40 minutes with about 1 mile of it at 6 1/2 or so mph. Really could have ridden twice that distance, but work was calling.

Cool and mellow.

2-5 inches of rain fell in the span of a couple hours last night. Part of the path was flooded but I went through anyway (not moving and not deep). Good fun but now I have wet shoes all day.

Thought about Caloso on last night's commute home. 20+ miles through surburbia and not once did my foot touch the ground. It was a first.

The ride this morning was great, I averaged 16.9mph, a new personal best.

Quiet commute this morning--pretty typical for a Friday. I think a lot of folks here in the Triangle work from home on Fridays, as the traffic is always lighter.

Ain't it cool?

Nothing special this morning, but yesterday on my way home I saw about 15 wild turkeys, most of which were youngsters. :)

My ride home was awesome because I stopped at the LBS to pick up my new (to me) Bridgestone after its tune-up!! Yay! Pics tomorrow in the sticky. It's beautiful!! :D

I am finally going to put my Garmin Edge 305 to work on my commute starting tomorrow morning! I bought it last August and have finally read the instruction manual...;^)

This will be my first morning commute. 27 miles one way...I'll leave around 5:30am and hopefully have some decent daylight after the first half hour.

Wet! Soaking rain coupled with a blustery 20MPH headwind. Only saw one cyclist. I passed her and said, "Nice day, huh?" :) She agreed.

Its Monday...commute sucked.
Actually the riding itself wasn't too bad, its just that 5 minutes into the ride, my FD decides to freeze up and nothing, I mean nothing, is going to make it move. So my old 10spd was a low geared 3spd for almost the entire commute. Still made the 8 miles in about 38 minutes, up from my normal 30 minutes, but now I gotta spend money on a new FD. I think I'll get a new RD as well, the old one probably doesn't have too much left in it.