Boy they let 'em out of their cells today. :rolleyes: I'm riding home on the MUP. Nobody out there except the occassional runner. Eventually I come upon 2 young teen males and a young teen female. We're facing each other and they all move to their right, no problems. The girl is out in front and as I pass her she makes this obnoxious screaming sound like she's trying to scare me. (I'm a pilot and a scuba diver. Loud noises don't scare me.) Then the two boys start doing the same thing.

I just rolled my eyes and kept cruising until they started yelling things at me. I caught words like p*$$y and f@gg*t and that sort of thing.

So I turned my 6'2" self around. ;)

This caused them to scatter like scared little bunnies into the woods. I could see them trying to hide in the trees. I stopped and yelled, "You children got a problem?"

No sound but the cool fall wind rustling in the trees.

"You got big mouths! Step up!"

Still nothing but wind.

"Next time I see you, etc etc..." Use your imagination.

Other than that... Nice ride... :D

It takes some doing but I put those little blinkies on my hubs so they gave a 360 pattern. Not sure how effective they were but it was interesting from the vantage point of the bike seat!

Wet, windy, and I was not in the mood... The ride didn't fix the mood issue... Two hours later and all I'm in the mood for is 2 1/2 men and a tall beer!

This morning was the first real ride in the rain in a long time. It was raining very hard at one point. I had my head down for a second trying to wipe the rain from my eyes and when I looked up I had rolled right past a stop sign. Luckily there was no cross traffic at the time. I kept riding about a quarter mile down to road and took shelter at a school for about ten minutes until the worst of it had passed.

After a couple of minutes a frog was thinking the same thing and hopped over beside my bike to wait out the rain with me.

I woke up this morning grumpy, hating life and the fact that I had to get out of my bed when it was still dark out.

.....ride ride ride....

As I pull up to school, im thinking life is actually pretty good.

On the way home i rode by 3 dead rats in the bike lane. They have been there for a while.

i've got water resistant pants from MEC. No pockets though.

I rode my new bike today. It's fast.

Yeah, that what makes or breaks the deal for me. I have a pair of MEC waterproof pants with one pocket, and just now bought a pair of water-resistant pants from there with three pockets. Three small pockets unfortunately. That's why I usually avoid women's pants... manufacturers seem to believe that women carry purses, and put either no pockets or very small pockets on women's clothing. Funny; our cards and keys are the same size as mens'... :rolleyes:

Steady rain on the return ride. I didn't care, it's such a relieve to be able to bike again. My leg strength is steadily improving and metabo is starting to come back too.

really nice ride in and back. I need a new bike bag, the zippers on mine are fakakta. and suddenly my front light was screwed up too- hmmmm bike gremlins.:p

It could be worse. You could be one of the rats :)

My ride was great. There's a great bit where I go through a bunch of trees that are all losing their leaves and it makes the coolest noise when I ride through the piles. Have to watch that if it's wet of course! And my midterm went well, plus I found out I pulled an A+ (96%) on Friday's test, so all in all a very good day :D

We sure have been having some splendid October weather here in Alberta...it was 7 C this morning and the ride in was fabulous as I had some good company for part of the ride and there was very little wind.

The ride home was equally nice as the temperatures are still really decent and at 11 pm the traffic is pretty light.

Had a very nice ride in again this morning. 12C and a slight tail wind made for a relaxing but fast ride. Forgot my camera again.

Better ride than yesterday, although I realized that I'd forgotten to pack underwear. I debated between going commando and wearing my riding shorts. I walked over to CVS in the hopes that they'd have some briefs but they didn't, the friction on that 5 minute walk was unbearable. I'm currently wearing my riding shorts. I may go over to Filene's Basement later this morning after some meetings. Then again, the shorts aren't terrible. Gotta re-stock my backup supply.

I almost talked myself out of riding today because I was feeling tired and run down. But I buckled down and rode anyway and was glad that I did. I felt better almost as soon as I got on my bike. However, I was very congested when I got to work, so perhaps I'm starting to come down with something. I haven't had a cold in about 2 years, or sick in any other way. It must be the biking.

Bad traffic karma day! Caught at all the major lights, plus stuck behind a stopping school bus for a bit. No doubt payback for not being very patient with a truck on yesterday's ride home.

On the plus side, it was a few degrees warmer.

I got to ride my new build today! It's faster, more rigid and quieter [except when coasting]. The disc brakes are working great, although I can feeel the cable stretch already. I was able to sprint in traffic and still cover the brakes! Woot!

Another convert! Sweet!

Great ride this morning! Pitch black when I head out, few cars on my route and a newly cleaned and tuned drive train gave me plenty of time to contemplate. I have a couple of roller coaster hills on my route that I thoroughly enjoyed. Not even the cager that tried to run me over could wipe the grin of my face for more than five minutes :-D

Egads! I need my brakes tightened. I almost didn't stop at an intersection and nearly plowed right into it. I had to apply the Fred Flinstone brakes.

Lately I've been meeting my buddy for a training ride before work. I leave at 6:30, hustle to the parking garage at my building, drop off my bag in my bike locker, and meet my buddy at the trail at 7. We do an out and back on the ARBT, then I sprint back to the office, lock up the bike, take a quick shower and hopefully I'm at my desk by 8:30.

This morning we were the jerky roadies. We were doing 21 and came up on a guy doing probably 19. We announced "on your left" and passed. We heard the clunk of down shifting and looked to see him attempting to latch on. My buddy said "let's go." And we ramped it up to 24. The guy hung on for a few hundred meters and my buddy said "draft me for a little bit." And he ramped it up to 28. That was at least 500W. After a couple of minutes we looked back and he was dropped.

"No free rides."

Nice, made it in during very brief sunbreak.

Yep it's raining now!

Nice ride this morning. I'm glad I have some decent winter gear. The balaclava thing I picked up last year really worked today. I've never had my lungs feel that good after a cold ride before.

Well, today is National Ride to Work day today, and there is a free breakfast for cyclists offered in a few places in Sydney. I haven't left yet, as I'm leaving a bit later to meet up with some friends for some brekkie (in the park north of the Harbour Bridge).

I hope there's bacon butties....