It has been a bit of a "charlie foxtrot" at work this week. Computer problems. Application problems. Stupid computers! I hate them all! :mad:

:rolleyes: It just makes riding home all the more fun though. Plus, this week is ride-to-work week here in Burlington and boy howdy have there been a lot of cyclists out and about. The weather has been nice, too. Yesterday there were 4 or 5 bikes locked up outside my building. (Mine stays inside with me.)

I was just leaving and a lady friend came out with her helmet. She lives near me so we wound up riding together. Very cool.

Second day in a row commuting by bike. Warmer - low 50's at 5:00 this AM. Sunny today -ride home shuold be in the low 70's. Nice!

Don't you love that? You can look up at the clock and think, "Only five more hours until nature and silence."

Just barely dodged a right-hook by an Escalade today. Didn't signal. Just sped up to get 2' in front of me and turned. Saw my reflection in the window going "AHHHH".

i started commuting to my job in laurel about a month ago, only been working in the part of the state about a year.5. what's the MUP? as well.. though i enjoy the patutent branch trail i've been taking most of the way, the people in this area seem remarkably ignorant of trail protocol--is this common, or peculiar to this trail?...i'll have to look up some other trails nearby and explore!

Pretty much the same as my post on Sunday. Around 15C temp outside at 430am with minimal wind so Pearl Izumi inner shorts under the pants and a short sleeve merino wool base layer under a short sleeve shirt. Checked the tire pressure and master link screw. The last 2 weeks or so I have my spare wheelset with Corsa CRs (cotton casings) on my bike so the tires hold air better than my usual Corsa Evo CXs (latex). Nice and easy 25km with a few small hills thrown in between with minimal sweat. Another great day riding to work on a track bike with tubulars :)

Nice day today. It's been sunny but cool for the last few days. Very pleasant.

And having just arrived at the office, I now have to ride back into the city for a meeting.

Which I consider a bonus! More time on the bike...

Nice days lately but traffic in the afternoon's has been absolutely horrible!! So many cars. And what's up with people that slow down right behind you and don't pass even when there is no one coming the other way and plenty of room to pass in the first place??? Do you all just keep going as nothing is wrong or what LOL

I made the commute for the first time. I left the house around 4:30am to be at work at 5:00am. I was hesitant to commute because I have to lift boxes, unload trucks, and stock product all day but to my surprise I had more energy. The ride gave me a kick start. Doing it again tomorrow.

Didn't feel like riding today...took the subway instead.

Awesome temperature and nice weather for the ride in. On the way back, I had cloudbursts with 25 mph sustained winds gusting to 35. My legs hurt.

WOW!!!
why did i see 0.0 (zero) other commuters? a perfect 22.0 mile ride!
sunny, temp 65 - 80 deg, low humidity, wind was a non-issue... i hope i still am planting seeds, hopefull to see some fruit shortly as gas prices climb past $4.00/gal.
my commute was wonderfull, thank you for asking!
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a great day but...

biked over to another location for work and on the way back to my office had a little disagreement with a driver.

Sorry but sometimes I've just got to say what's on my mind- like, "You got far." to a guy that just blew his horn for half a block to move people out of his way then cut in close behind me and whipped by me only to jam his brakes on at the light in 50 feet.

This complete ass had his window open. It was so nice to pull up right next to him and look him right in the eye. what an aggressive boob this jerk was. We exchanged some pleasantries.:rolleyes:

fortunately, my ride home was incident free and quite nice along the river at night- lots of rabbits and hawks tonight. my allergy is totally kicked in- sneezing like a fiend and eyes tearing up.

Had a great ride in this morning and had a few hours of working outside before it started raining... there was some light rain on the way home and some good sized puddles but old English bikes thrive in this kind of weather and I stayed pretty dry.

my commute home was a bit slow to start with - I was in a different part of the city, and had to get across the CBD to get to my normal route. I don't know the short-cuts and back alleys in that bit of town, so it was slow going through unusally heavy traffic.

Then a bit further on the police had closed loads of roads (around Pyrmont) - dozens of squad cars, redirected traffic, tape across the street and so on. Dont know what was occuring. They didn't seem to be stopping pedestrians or bikes though, so I was able to take my normal route, albeit a bit slower then usual. I guess this may have been part of the cause of the traffic hold-ups in the city.

All in all a rather frustrating ride home!

Bike/train commute this morning, with the bonus that rhm met me at the train station so I could try out his Downtube Mini. I've been looking to get a folding bike, and have narrowed it down to either a Dahon Curve SL or a Downtube Mini. Riding the Mini has made this a much harder choice.

It's starting to feel like summer coming on in NC. Warm and humid this morning with temp in the mid-60s. Wore a short-sleeve jersey with no arm-warmers for the first time in a while (for morning), but did wear my vest for visibility. I was very sweaty by the time I got to work, probably from the vest but I am reluctant to quit wearing it in mornings because the neon yellow stands out so well in traffic.

Good ride this morning, a little rain was falling from the sky so I wore my bright yellow cycling cape, I love wearing it because people can see me well and I feel like a super hero.
Spotted one other commuter and we exchanged friendly waves with me looking like big bird or something.
I wished it was raining a little harder but it felt good to be out in the warm wet air just the same.

:)

Black clouds of tiny insects! :eek: All I can say is I'm glad I have riding glasses and wasn't pushing, so I could breath with my mouth closed. I took off my jersey at work and in the mirror I saw several of the bugs, dead, on my back! Yuck!

Nice ride though. 60F and broken clouds with a bit of a headwind. Things are greening up nicely. Only saw two cyclists, and they were heading the other way.

Last night i was caught in the rain without my rain gear... actually quite fun :)

This morning there was a hellacious wind, but as luck would have it, this was one of the few times it was at my back. I was cruzing at 50kph for some sections.

Beautiful morning - sunny, mid-40's and just a light breeze. :) The only bad thiing was I had my first flat of the year. :( Small shard of glass punctured on the shoulder of the tire probably just outside the kevlar belt.

Rain turning to sleet turning to snow today. The temperature is supposed to fall from +6C to +1C over the course of the day. Oh, and I switched to 53x18 last night. :rolleyes:

On the way home Tuesday I saw FIVE other commuters (not roadies). I don't think I saw 5 commuters all of last year. Here in SE Michigan, land of the car, if you're not driving you're nobody, so I didn't think even $10/gal gas would put people on bikes, but apparently it will work for some people.

Great riding lately. Nice weather.

One bad note; this morning a coworker who I had gotten excited about bike commuting, and who went out and spent about 3x more than I did on a nice Trek, had a clip-out failure, fell over and sprained her knee. She's at the ER now getting MRIs. I don't think this will put her off cycling but it may take her out of the saddle for a few months.

sunny, windy, brisk <40F. I closed my pitzips, 1st time since its risen above the 20sF.

Nice and dry, perfect weather, good ride! 50% chance of thunderstorms on the way home, we will see if my luck holds. Got soaked both ways yesterday, so it was nice to ride on dry pavement. Bike is a mess from riding in the soup yesterday, filthy, brakes squealing, it will require some attention this weekend.