Chilly, I wish it'd friggin warm up here in Michigan. It was a nice ride in, light traffic, moderate wind in my face (which is fine since it should, in theory, be at my back on the way home).

I discovered another person commuting to work today. He had his bike in the locker room. Turns out he's started doing it about every other day, 20 mile round trip commute. He asked quite a few questions since he's still on basic gear (bike, no lights, no bright clothing, backpack, etc). I'm just glad to see someone else is riding in :D

I wave them around me when its safe for them to pass. Some of them give me a friendly short beep on the horn.

Seems to be a few more bike commuters out there lately. Unfortunately, most the new riders seem to be on the wrong side of the road or the sidewalk but I just can't work up the energy to yell at them. It's getting to be too much work to determine if I should yell "On the right!" "Por la derecha!" or "На права!"

I've noticed this too (Royal Oak area). Even caught a guy in a full blown suit recently. It's nice to see.

The weather around here's been schizophrenic lately to no surprise. Typical Michigan. Cold ride this morning with leg and arm warmers. Looks to be sunny and marginally warm for the commute home.

Had a very mild situation with a driver today, but it was my first. He got impatient and drove inches from my rear tire waiting to pass. I'm glad I got a mirror so I could keep a safe eye on him. He passed pretty close but no hostility or awkward back-and-forth. I gave him a good stare-down, though. TAKE THAT! :p

The ride in was beautiful, I felt like I could have ridden 100 miles.

I was really tired and had a long day, I was almost considering taking the bus, when a friend walked in sweaty, breathing hard and wearing a camellbak, he proudly announced that he had "Pulled a Robin" by
riding his bike. Skipped the bus and rode home, obviously.

Plus they're weaving until (and while) you catch them so you don't know if you're going on their left or right until you get there...

Had to ride in the rain today. No big deal. I have the gear. Nice steady drizzle.

The first real warm spring night brought out the Bostonians that have spent a winter closeted in homes and apartments not moving their bodies much more than a few feet to go from the sofa to the refrigerator. They all come out onto the bike path with their pasty, white, doughy bodies and run and walk and ride their bikes and roller blades that haven't seen the light of day in 9 months. They struggle along drifting from side to side on the path. It's a painful thing to witness. Suddenly the bike path is a paradigm of their own bodies- a long clogged artery. I felt like a dose of Lipitor dodging the wads of grease and fat that move slowly through their bloodstream.

In a month or two they'll all be brown as berries, fit as fiddles and ready to crawl back into their holes on the first cold rainy day in September.

But in the bike path's favor I found out I dodged a bullet by taking the bike path in this morning when a truck careened out of control on my streets route and took out about 10 cars eventually coming to a stop in a ball of flames.

All in all it was still a pretty good commute. Even though one of the joggers, who was hacking and wheezing as I approached, turned and hocked a good lunga right onto my arm as I passed. And those four college age women, doing their best "Lindsay Lohan just out of rehab impression", who walked side by side completely blocking the path refusing to move for anyone who tried to pass- well, what can I say...

spring is here, sky is blue, birds all sing, as if they knew...;)

T'was a really nice day if you forget the headwind in and the headwind out... :)

My Trek 7500 has more gears than any other bike I own (16) so with that and the drop bars making time into the wind is not a big deal.

Tomorrow is supposed to be nice and I figure I'll saddle up one of the fixed gears since they haven't been getting enough lovin' of late.

Very tired this week its tghe first week of my new job thus a 71km daily trip for me.

Finshed at 9 last night then back in for 9 this morning meant very little down time 350km so far and 1 more day to go totalling 420km in commutes alone this week wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ill be losing my belly at this rate (i hope)

Just barely made the train. I sit down and pull my rain jacket open and the jacket tears alongside the velcro closure. (The thing is already held together by duct tape, so time for a new one.)

I dodged the rain yesterday on my bike commute, but decided not to press my luck today. Yesterday it started raining about an hour after I got to work and continued until mid-afternoon, but it cleared by the time I left. However, this morning a line of severe thunderstorms rolled through our area starting about 5 am and it was still raining pretty hard about the time I usually leave for work. There was also a tornado watch, so I don't feel much guilt in driving.

Sweet ride today. Mid 40s but sunny and comfortable and a light tailwind. Heard my phone's text message beep in my bag so I swung into the woods (off the MUP) and read it. Friend trying to get me to go out drinking. :rolleyes: :D
:beer:

Another MTB rider went by, so I put the phone away and chased him down. He was moving along pretty well too, but he left the MUP shortly after I got to him.

Didn't see any other cyclists going my way.

Today was the first time I've ever commuted to work... 9.47 miles according to my Garmin Forerunner...took me 50 minutes, wasn't too bad other than the fact that I forgot my gloves and it was about 38 degrees this morning....I've decided, I need to find a vintage higher end road bike for my commuting purposes. My 2006 Scott Voltage YZ4 mtn bike just isn't going to do it...heavy frame, mtn bike gearing, knobby tires....I bet I could shave some time off with a more efficient ride. I estimated that it would take me 45 minutes, and it took 50, I got hosed by some traffic lights...

I wish we had bike lanes here in Michigan....drivers are so crazy that I rode on the sidewalk on the busy, busy roads....

Good ride this morning felt like a messanger because I had to drop off a bottle of beer at a buddy's house to be consumed later...yummy.

Sunny and warm, biked in some comfy knickers too, thinking about buying another pair, they are by prana and they are just stretchy enough to let the legs just spin along.

Happy Friday everyone!

yesterday my ride in was a little wet - steady rain. Last night I missed the t-storms by a few hours and it was a great ride at 11:30pm! Nasty t-storms rolled through this morning at about 5:30 and we had tornado watch up until 9am and t-storm warnings for the rest of the day. Given all that and I need to go do some errands right after work, I caged it this morning - BOOOO!

have a great weekend everyone!

This morning's ride was the best so this year for a morning commute. Last night it rained just enough to wash the roads clean, and this morning the roads were damp, but not really wet. The temp was about 60. Conditions were about perfect. And I didn't get buzzed once. I don't have a nice, scenic ride through parks like some of you, but for my route, this is about as good as it gets.

Fantastic commute. Our cycling club got together and about 15 of us cycled downtown together. Upper 50s and little wind...very nice

Didn't get to commute yesterday due to a dental appointment, so I was glad to get back on the road today. :) High 60s and breezy. Very pleasant.

I've also planned out a new route that will be nearly 10 miles (instead of my current 6) and will keep me off of that damned 60mph highway for all but the last few hundred feet. I am so excited! :) I wanted a longer route for a lot of reasons, but it's nice to always have the shorter route to fall back on. Think I'll still go shorter on the ride home. I like to take another ride in the evening after it cools off a bit so I can avoid too much hot sunlight.

Very rainy, but okay. Given my commute is simple and an everyday thing (4 miles roundtrip), it's not much to write about. :)

brisk (30sF) and blinding sun. I totally flew, I think it's a personal best avg speed for a ride initially paced by my 6 yr old.

60F and cloudy. Love love love San Diego's famous "May Gray"

Passed by a local high school just before first bell and remembered why I usually go a different way at that time of day. Hundreds of inexperienced, hormonally addled drivers! Quite a zoo.

Sucked. Summary - At 4.50 am had an hour long discussion with my wife if we should ride in or drive in or do a mix commute. I wanted a ride in with safety net of going back in train if weather got worst, and DID NOT want to drive in. Ended up driving in :( In a very cranky mood today.

Bummer dude, there will plenty more commuting days. What's your commute like?

Will she at least return your balls when you get home :bike2: