Overslept this AM, and left home ~30 minutes late. It was still early though so traffic, although somewhat heavier than I'm accustomed to, was still pretty light. Scared up a deer near Lake Crabtree.

Great ride today. Didn't get much-needed sleep last night, so I left it in the small ring
for the most part and lurched my way in. Slow and steady wins the race. :)

Mid 70s, extra low traffic...I love that. Nice ride. :)

Now I'm looking forward to the long weekend when I can take long rides with no destination in mind...

The city is still repaving one of the main streets on my route, so I searched around and found some alternative roads to avoid the construction. I don't know why it is taking them so long, but it has been an irritation all week long. They ground off the top layer of asphalt leaving parralel grooves in the pavement that makes it feel like you are riding on ice. Plus there is a bunch of dust that gets kicked up by passing traffic. So I tried some other streets and managed to avoid the mess this morning, and it was actually kind of nice riding on some different roads for a change.

Nice morning commute. A tad cool but pleasant.

My salsa build is just about complete. I had my LBS cut the steerer and transfer the cog and freewheel to the new wheel. I discovered that having a right arm that is still recovering from a break makes things a bit difficult. Just need to add a brake and chain and I should be ready. Just in time for my 1000 mile month in June.

I got the "I thought you were a delivery person" from someone at one of the other companies in my building this morning when I came in at 9. No disrespect to couriers, but I bike to work at least 4 days a week, and I've been working in this (small) building for over 2 years now. I know this woman has seen me on my bike on multiple occasions, so I'm not sure whether it was meant as an insult or just another case of people not noticing bikes around them...

Wow - wind last night kicked me in the teeth for the first 7 miles. 25 MPH sustained, with gusts to 40 MPH, and generally right in my face. At one point (must have been one of those gusts) I honestly felt like I was going nowhere. Fun thing is I was able to just laugh it off. I knew what I was getting into when I left the office, and had resolved to just pedal - ignore speed and time and everything else and just pedal. It worked well - I got home tired, absolutely dripping wet (it was almost 90*f when I started out). And for about a mile towards the end, that wind was squarely from the back - I couldn't have stopped if I tried... :)

This morning, wind was still there, but had shifted a bit to the east, so it kicked me in the teeth again - not quite as hard or direct, but enough to make me work pretty good for the first half of the ride. Made decent time anyway, and I feel great. Quads have been sore the last couple days, but that good kinda sore that reminds you you're working them... When I get home tonight I'll have banged out 3 of 4 commutes this week (my goal is 3 of 5 each week, so that's good) and 110 total miles this week (goal is to average 100 / week through the summer.) Feels pretty good...

Those in the US celebrating Memorial Day, have a great long weekend!

Today was good, cut 12 minutes off the commute and 2.71 miles off by taking a new route. Couple days ago was bad, panniers fell off & got thrown into the left side of the rear wheel, bent the rack.

Working from home today ! Miss my ride :(

Great weather, felt fast, made pretty good time on my 11.5mi trip. First trip with the new Axiom Seymour panniers...so far, I really don't like them. The elastic on the bottom clip is too long and they slip forward a lot. Also, when you lean the bike to turn, they slam back onto the rack and throw the balance off for a second. Looks like they'll be going back.

Great end of the week ride, my legs felt a bit tired I think due to running last night. Did a loop around the building to just sort of cool down a bit.
Doing a longer ride tomorrow, hoping to get in 30 miles or so on the fixie.

Long weekends rule!

nice midnight commute last night. nice ride in this morning as well. hope everyone has a great long weekend!

First ride in with the new Craft Thermal WS jacket. Fits like a glove, feeels great and really stops the wind. I'm bringing sexy back... :D

Nice ride in -- still very cool for late May. Saw the usual on the way in -- a few other riders and joggers, but did see a wood duck, which is pretty neat.

Nice, quick. Brisk but not windy so no windbreaker, just t-shirt.

No windbreaker layer for me either, it just felt good to be wearing a t-shirt and dress shirt
Supposed to be warm this weekend too!

Woke up late and nearly decided to drive in. Fortunately having my bike completely prepped the night before helped, and I rode in anyway. No regrets at all, it was a gorgeous morning, and traffic was light.

Still windy as hell. It's supposed to calm down starting this afternoon but it's getting annoying because otherwise the weather is perfect: sunny and cool. Should be quiet around here today since it's the start of a 3-day weekend and our clients take any opportunity to turn that into a 4-dayer.

Still in the 40's this morning, but the wind was light, and traffic not too bad. Perfect weather for commuting.

Second day in a row some crappy little escort like thing passes right next to me and blasts horn. I could here some kids inside laughing. Real nice.

Walked 2.5 miles to the bus this morning. Impending drinkage after work. :beer:

On my ride home yesterday, I was stopped on the "bike bridge" admiring the scenery and sipping some water, and two roadies went by in full spandex. I couldn't resist. Put the water bottle into the cage, and chased them. They weren't going all that fast so I caught them pretty quickly. 18 or 19MPH.

There's a "bike path" next to the residential street we were on, but it's not good for the velocities we were doing. A woman in a cage driving in the other direction yelled something at them, and I didn't hear what she said. The lead roadie turned around and gave her "the look". :D I just shook my head and chuckled.

Stiff headwind the whole way in this morning - Added a good 20-25 minutes to my ride (in part because I missed the last bus and had to take the back route and carry the bike up 1/2 mile of steep dirt path). Now I'm sitting in my office watching low dark clouds race across the sky - no wonder that ride felt like work! Driving home this afternoon, alas, so I don't get the fun of a tailwind on the way home! :(

Great ride again today. Last night I had (another) pair of guys in a pickup try to tell me bikes aren't allowed to take the lane (or something like that--you know what I mean). I told them otherwise. ;)

I'm on vacation all next week. Good luck and safe rides to everyone out there! Talk to you when I return.

Great ride home last night. Left late, so traffic was light. I had had a crap day, so it was great to take out some aggro on the ride. Absolutely flew home. Most of the lights were green. I could have kept riding for another hour!

In other news, I have destroyed another bell. The pinger thing broke off (again). I'm going to have to get another one, this time of a more robust design...

Today was a "pip"... Jumped on the wrong trolley line, by the time I knew I had made a mistake I had missed my connection with the Coaster train. Jumped on a bus (alternate route) to Escondido where it was raining buckets with a 20-30 mph wind.

Wife had to rescue me with a ........ car! I shuttered with each stroke of the engine.

Hello there!

I haven't posted in a while but I have been reading the forum posts. I normally bike commute about 3 days a week (nothing out of the ordinary so this is why I haven't posted); this week was the first in quite a while where I commuted every single day. At the rate the price of gas is going I think bike commuting will be my preferred way of transportation barring a severe thunderstorm or snowstorm.

Keep pedaling.

G.A.