No bike today, I have to get my touring bike in for a tuneup after work and my wife will be picking me up. (It'd be tight to fit a full-frame bike and the folder in the car.)

I've seen other folders on my connute, but this is the first time I've seen another Dahon Curve. And it was the same exact on as mine - a Red D3. Coolness.

My second day doing the full ride to work (21 miles with some real hills). I have rident to the light rail (train) before which was a relatively flat 16 mile ride (about the same as my usual daily ride).

Wow! How exhilerating to ride all the way to work!

My only gripe is with city riding. The roads sure could use some improvment. I will have to look into different tires for my commuter bike. Right now I am using Cont 4season tires (700x23) and I am thinking I probably would find 700x25 a better ride for the city part of my commute. Only thing is, most of my ride is on country roads and the 700x23 probably is better for that.

I am going to try to ride in two or three days a week (yea, gas IS expensive!!!)

Bill

woke up to the sun this morning so the ride in was bright but not too warm, they are saying there is a chance of thunder showers this afternoon but we shall see...i took the day off from work yesterday but i managed to still ride and go for a run also, spent some time stretching and lifting weights too...it was a pampering day

Have not commuted since last Thursday, so I haven't felt much like a cyclist. But back on two wheels today, and feeling really good. Although my road rash, cuts and bruising have been healing nicely (thank you Tegaderm!) I've been having residual effects from the concussion I suffered in my accident on Friday the 13th. I've been woozy, dazey, irritable and clumsy (my motor skills took a hit), and I am unusually tired this morning. I've been really careful on the road, but I can't stay off the bike.

I put in some serious extra time at work since last Thursday (working pretty much through the weekend), so I am going to try and get caught up on my sleep tonight.

Here's to everyone having a wonderful commute today! :)

Today was my second commute. Cloudy and cool - around 60 when I left home.

I re-learned a valuable lesson this morning - don't mess with the bike the night before and not test ride it first before taking it in to work. I had installed an adjustable stem for the handlebars and now the whole front fork vibrates every time I hit a bump. I know I had that thing tight so I'll have to check it out before I leave tonight. I'm SO glad I tossed a couple of tools in the bag last night.

Rear flat again on the ride in. I'm flatting about once per month, and it's getting old. Debating whether to try Conti Gatorskins or just give in and run Armadillos (currently riding on Krylion Carbons).

63F. Clear sky.

Nice cool ride. Made decent time. I haven't really biked it in a week or so due to all the rain in this zone.

Crossing College at St George (Toronto), there must have been 20-25 bikers waiting at that light!

My rear wheel is squeaking again. I tried tightening the spokes and I thought it helped somewhat, but it was loud and squeaky. The university bike club has a tensionometer and it says what the optimal tension range for the spokes is supposed to be. Except my spokes are all over the place! Some are high and some are pretty low. I don't want to mess with it too much because I want to keep the wheel true... I might just wait for a spoke to give out.

Back on the bike today after not riding since last Tuesday, since I was on a golf trip with my father in law. Yesterday, needed to drop wife's car in for service, so she took my car to work and dropped me off, which was good, since we had bad thunder storms all day, and the commute home would have been through lightning. This morning was humid, but nice, and once I pedaled up a good breeze, all was right with the world. I think that this morning's commute put me over the 300 mile mark total for work commuting!! (just started a few weeks ago), so I am very happy with that. My goal of 1000 miles by the end of July is still in sight!

Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!! I'm getting tired of people wearing iPods (both bike riders and joggers/runners). If only they had the sense to stick to the far right, but nooooooooo, they take the middle of the path. You yell at them, ring your bell (my kids do), heck, you can even throw stones at them and they won't budge... Then there are the suicidal ones who when you yell them "on your right/left" they step out to the side you call... Some are so absorbed on the music they don't even know you've passed them!!!

One of these days I'm going to ram one at 20+mph and see if that sends a message...

>:(

The ride home yesterday was uphill into a headwind. Not the most fun commute. But I got home, and the weather was nice, so whatever.

This morning, I slid in right at the buzzer. I spent too long getting coffee.

Raining cats and dogs this morning! I had to break out the gore-tex and everything. I ran flashers front and rear, since the clouds did an excellent job of blotting out the sun. It's supposed to clear up a bit, then maybe some thundershowers, so the ride home should be fine.

Riders with ipods are the reverse bike ninjas.

"I don't want you to know where I am" vs "I don't want to know where you are".

My favorite are the all-black bike ninjas WITH Ipods. "I am alone in my own world ... its very nice"

B

warmer than yesterday but not warm but kinda too warm for my jacket after all.

I make it a habit to never talk about flats that aren't happening (just inviting trouble, ya know?) but I will say that I've been happy with the Bontrager Race Lite hard case (maybe not the exact name?) I've been running - 700x28, pretty bumpy at 110 psi, but not as bad as the Armadillos i used to run on my rigid MTB when I first started commuting...

The ride to work was a bit humid but the temp could not be better a 68, degrees. My twelve mile ride home will be different though, it is expected to go up to 90 deg. with 58% humidity. It will still be great in my mind it is great to get back to commuting and watching the gas prices with nothing to fill up. This sounds a bit dismal at first but I really do mean it is great and feels awesome too.

Beautiful morning - a perfect 70 degrees and clearing to sun as I left the house. Saw two snowy egrets by the creek.

Overtaking a guy on the MUP, I noticed something funny about his cadence. When I got close enough I saw he was riding his MTB wearing a prosthetic foot - a blue metal & carbon deal, very high tech looking. I was kind of curious about it, but the guy didn't seem to want to chat, so I said good morning and left it at that.

Greetings salutations to all you new commuters (commutants? ;)). Despite what your friends and relatives may say, it's not a cult...but please, help yourself to some kool-aid while you're here.

The ride today was good. I rode home yesterday with a coworker. His usual average speed is 19 mph; my average speed is 16.2 mph. Add the fact that we're two competitive males riding bikes and I probably don't need to tell you how sore my legs were this morning.

Terrible air quality again today from the fires in Solano and Napa Counties. The prevailing wind is from the ocean and it just traps all the smoke in the valley.

Nothing particularly interesting except for the woman on the cruiser who seemed intent on riding in the gutter rather than the asphalt part of the bike lane. I thought about saying something but wasn't sure how to approach her. I thought about saying "Hi, I hope you don't mind some unsolicited advice, but you don't want to ride in the gutter because that's where all the glass and nails collect." But then maybe she would have been freaked out by my riding up alongside her (she was a bit wobbly).

I decided not to say anything other than "Good morning!" as I went around her.

ride home yesterday was going pretty good after leaving commuter bike at work since last ride in 6/16/8.
i remembered helmet, gloves, etc but forgot tire patch kit/tire irons, tubes. i left work confident (hoping)to be flat-free, had the wind on my back, stopped and picked up new rx bicycle glasses. Until one mile short of home (i have a 10 to 11 mile commute each way), the rear tire blew out, culpret was a hooked aluminum 8-penny nail, kevlar bead did not stand a chance. i walked the bike with rear panniers on my back, frustrated and called off work today to recoup (and take care of other business). after this note, am going out to repain tubes and attach new 700 x 28 kv rear tire. thanks for asking :-) !

So i'm riding in late after a bank appointment. I see a cyclist walking thier bike in the opposite direction.
"Hey, need any Help?" I call out
"Help, WTF?!" came the reply
"Why aren't you riding, is there something i can help you with?"
"I'm not riding on a f#'ing freeway!"
"Okay... have a nice day"
I couldn't help chuckling to myself, he was the typical crochety old man (late 40's i'd guess). Oh and I have no idea what freeway he was talking about, the road was a city road 60kph (35mph). At least he had a bike.

It's past the longest day of the year and summer is making its tentative appearance in Vancouver, BC. Here's some pics of my pretty 20km commute.

http://picasaweb.google.com/phillip.ngan/BikeCommute

Nice bike & commute dude.

Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day in Denver. Wish me luck.

Terrible... OK. I enjoyed my ride. But still...

It was nice until I did something dumb.
I was riding along (thankfully slowly) and thought the quick release on my front tire looked a bit open. So I stupidly tried bumping it in with my shoes. On the fourth tap I missed and hit the spokes. I bent the wheel a bit and need to true it now... Not sure if I'll ride down or take the wheel down via subway...

Would have been a brilliant ride home if I wasn't sick.

But, then again, I just proved I can do 8.5 miles while sick as a dog.

:(

Tried to get ahead of a major weather system and got assaulted with huge hailstones. I pulled over under a tree, but they were powering through the foliage as some were large marble size, so I had to sprint to a school down the road and get under the awning of the entrance. Just in time! Lighting on all points of the compass within a mile or 2 each way! After it passed, I sprinted again to the town center, and appraised my situation. weather was moving away fast, so I continued to my destination, which was the dealer for my wife's toyota, as they damaged it on last service, and needed to repair it. made it there safe, if not soaking, and then drove the route my buddy bikes home to see if he was stuck somewhere and needed a lift since I had the minivan, but he was able to skirt all the bad stuff and make it home.

All in all, an exciting trip, but i cheated myself out of 3.5 miles of biking. I will need to make it up tomorrow on the way in.

Good luck! I'd ride to work tomorrow too...but it's my day off. Maybe I'll just throw on my khakis and a polo, cruise around town, and eat free donuts. :D

Looking forward to a nice ride home in a while; it was beautiful when I rode in the morning. Road kill to the max; squirrels must be the most prolific of animals otherwise they'd be extinct by now. Their nemesis is the same as ours.

Gah! I'll be on the rode as usual at 430am...no donuts or coffee for me! Have fun Denverites and beware the casual weavers out for the one day a year!!

Off today but cruising on Logan by Washington Park and some A-hole in a van passed me twice so close all I had to do was take my hands off the bars to drag my freakin' finger nails along the side of the van...or slap the side. Whatever...

I wish one of these road apples would stop some day so we could 'discuss' the relative merits of giving me 3 feet or at least more than the width of my shoulders!
And yes, I was out of door range but not taking the lane. Usually not needed there...

My A.M. commute was interrupted 5 miles in by a flat tire.But the PM. ride home was good today.Had a tail wind blowing the entire way. I cant believe i got a flat on a tire that has less than 10 miles on it. This wasnt a pinch flat it was a piece of glass that went thru.