Heavy drizzle. I was dressed completely wrong so now I sit here w/ wet socks, and dirty wet pants. I should've put the other fender on my bike, not that it would've helped. Dunno what I'm waiting for.

15 miles of near bliss... 76*F - a bit warm and muggy, but it IS nearly June in TX, so that's the way it is. 25 MPH winds, but from the SSE, so they worked in my favor for the most difficult half of the ride in. Ride home tonight will probably be a different story. To top it off, I took a bit of perverse pleasure in noticing that the price of gas jumped $.12 since Tuesday p.m. Not sure why that makes me happy - my wife still has to drive her car to haul kids around, so it's still costing us money...

SImilar weather down here...definitely warmer and more humid this morning. But the SSE winds work against me on the ride into work, but I adore them on the ride home. Especially in the heat! :)

First time biking into work today! It was damn chilly out! Only had on shorts, jersey and a sleeveless rain jacket. Didn't sweat that much though - so I'll keep with that set up.

Weather.com says a high of 55 feeling like 51 right now. Showers all day.

14.4 miles, took me 50 minutes averaging 16 mph.

Can't wait til I get to bike home!

I'm hoping to commute 4 days per week, driving clothing in on Mondays..

All drivers were really respectful! no horns, no kids yelling at me, no close calls. Perfect ride in this morning

Where are you? I am moving.:)

Low 40s today. A light headwind, and a couple of spits of rain. Didn't see any other cyclists out. There was a log/branch floating in the lake and I thought I was the Champlain Monster. :eek: :p

I passed a guy on a horse on my commute home yesterday afternoon...on the highway, which was really weird. Maybe he's found a new way to save gas? :)

Just more sustainable emissions. :D

Struggled through a brutal headwind into downtown to drop off my backpack at the office before meeting my buddy out on the bike trail. When suddenly BANG! My God, I've been shot!

Nope. Just a huge blowout in my rear tire. I don't know what I ran over, but it must have been sharp as it put a 3/4 inch gash in my Conti Force. I put a powerbar wrapper in there as a boot (learned that trick on BF!), put in a tube, and rode very gingerly the last mile to the office. I'll have to see if I can get away to the LBS at lunch time in order to get a new tire in time to go on the group ride tonight. Bleh.

Well, at least you weren't shot. Is the gash in the sidewall or the tread?

Also brutal headwinds here, which turn into an ironic brutal tailwind for the last half mile of going home at night, I need to brake all that last leg (daughter in trailer is fantastic sail) so I don't roll over/through 6 yr old on his bike. I don't know why I don't get that same tailwind in the am. I was going to run an errand at lunchtime today, right around when that wind picks up. May be tough sledding getting there, but coming back should be a snap.

Another really fast ride this morning.

Saw 3 more commuters last night on the ride home, making 7 in one day (more than twice my previous best!). On the down-side, had two older guys in a pickup very mildly harass me on the way home. Not even yelling at me, just kinda talking loudly enough at me that I could hear them but not understand them. I tried to catch up to them and gestured that I wanted them to come back, but of course they drove off.

A little of both: it's diagonal across the curve.

I think we're getting different ends of the same weather system. Our wind is from the north, which is contra-flow for this time of year.

Myself and a few friends of mine maintain a blog about commuting and riding in general.
http://www.bike4more.com

The weather has been so ideal here in NC that I haven't had much to report lately. I did see another bike commuter -- and a chick at that -- yesterday, which is a rarity on my route. I should have slowed down to talk but we were going up a rather short, steep hill and I wanted to keep my momentum up.

The city is repaving one of the roads on my route and they ground up the surface of the road, so it's like riding on one of those bridges with steel gratings. Very sketchy at best. I would take another route but there are no good alternatives to this road, so I'll just have to gut it out and hope I don't take a spill.

Another curious observation. I rode with my friends after work last week, which is something I have rarely done since I started bike commuting. Our regular Wednesday route is on the outskirts of town on roads that previously were very lightly traveled. Anyway, I began to realize during the ride that I feel safer on my commuter route than the group ride because traffic has gotten so much heavier in that area over the past few years with new developments in the area. Kind of ironic because one of the things that kept me from commuting over the years was my concerns about riding in traffic, but I now think my commuting route is safer than many of the recreational routes I've ridden for years.

It started raining hard. Record setting. Excellent.

A wacky week.
Record breaking high temps of 110F Monday and Tuesday
39, 46 & 49mph recorded gusts during my ride home Wednesday (I pass right by the weather station)
Near record low highs tomorrow (70F is the record low high, tomorrow is forecast to be high of 70F)
Record rainfall today/tomorrow (Since 1895 it has only rained once on May 22rd with 0.1" recorded) today 1-2" is expected, the average rainfall for all of May is 0.21", for June 0.07")

I prepared for the rain and re-installed by HID headlight.

Al

I had such a rough ride yesterday. Got caught in headwind when going home at 20:30 in the evening and I honestly didn't feel there was any easy part of the ride. I am taking it easy today hope it was just down to me lacking energy as it was my 5th day biking in a row.

Beat the bus!
 

The bus I take when not cycling has a longer route and more stop lights. I usually pedal more leisurely, but today I saw the bus setting out at the same time as me so I pushed myself. I met him again and got in front when the last stoplight of the ride turned red against him. Now I have a new daily challenge...

serious headwind coming in this afternoon - real rough ride - I was pooped!

My commute was ok

Well, I did a "Bike to School Day" for some of my middle schoolers today. We had 21 kids show up, mostly 6th graders, the dean of students, three teachers, myself, a state trooper to take sweep and a fire truck to lead the way. We did a 2.7 run and the kids loved it. Such a blast.

I'll bet a third showed up with almost no air in thier tires. (We had pumps.) Point being that I don't think they are getting ridden that much.

But I have to tell you it was cold!! Maybe 40 degrees I'm not sure. And my office at school was not heated, so I never did warm up.

It was great getting the kids out. Particularly with gas prices being what they are, maybe it will inspire thier parents to get out and ride and maybe talk to the town planners about making the roads a little more bike friendly for commuters. Took lots of pictures, had lots of laughs, just a great time.

Morning was lame: I got spit at by a guy riding shotgun in a panel truck. It didn't land on me, but it bummed me out for the rest of the ride.

Coming home was good, though. Later than usual, so lighter traffic, and I had a bottle of Sunshine wheat beer from New Belgium waiting for me. That's happiness.

The obituary was in the paper today...natural causes at 57 (If I remember correctly).

No commute to work tomorrow because I decided to make it a 4-day weekend. I have some errands to do though, so I'll definitely get some pedaling in :)

Morning commute was pleasant. Not much wind, no fights with motarists, a few drops of rain (lucky !!!).

Evening commute was very windy. Took the train and cut off 6 miles of thee 16. Still it was pretty brutal wind.

Cold and crisp - about 11C and sunny.

Great riding weather, once you warm up.

I also did my community service today - I took some surface spray and a cloth up to the shower with me (there's one shower for the whole 16 floor building) and cleaned it whilst I was in there (the building owners refuse to clean it). This also meant that I ended up cleaning myself with lemon-scented surface spray. Oh well. I suppose it got the grease off!

I rode well in the morning. It was my first commute to a new office downtown. There are connecting MUP and offroad trails and it's a fun and beautiful ride. But storms have washed out some sections and construction has rerouted others. It can get a little confusing in the places where the trails cross and connect, at least for a no-sense-of-direction human such as myself.

So...

I missed a turn on the way home and rode the wrong trail for a few miles. Too hot for that. Had to retrace, then make the turn, which basically put me at the beginning of my ride, but 5 or so miles into it. I think I did 13 or 14 on the way home.

Bad news: I'm an idiot and should have known better.
Good news: How often do I get to ride 14 miles after work, on a new bike at that?

When I got home I was thinking I'd skip tomorrow, but maybe I'll call it a recovery ride instead. ;)