Call me a fair-weather biker, but I drove today due to the extreme heat. The temperature is supposed to top 100F here today for about the third day in a row, and the high usually hits during the same time I'm riding home in the afternoon. After biking on several 100+ days last summer, I decided no more. I would much rather ride in below-freezing temps than this kind of blast furnace. Plus the heat came on so suddenly this year that my body hasn't really acclimated to it. The high temperatures here went from the 70s-80s to 100+ with nothing in between.

it was a warm ride in and pretty uneventful, i had some iced green tea before i left the house, this will probably be the drink of choice in the morning, make tea at night and let it chill until the morning

Nice, mellow ride to work. I saw a gorgeous sunset, as well as a really cute fox who wanted nothing to do with me.

<joking>girljen, I'm sorry but I need a clarification on this. Do you mean "fox" as in reddish 4-legged animal that eats rodents, or "fox" as in, well, fox? ;) Because if it was the latter, maybe you just need to work on your pickup technique?</joking>

As reported by other NC commuters, HOT (and I mean Hot as in 85 degrees at 9 am with a forecast for a heat index of 105, not Hot as in seeing a really attractive person). I had to bring in a lot of supplies today, I had Ultimate pickup yesterday in the heat, and The Kid didn't let me get much sleep last night. I was tired as heck on the ride in.

Did my first commute on my new road bike that I purchased this weekend. WOW!

A ride that took me 30-35 minutes on my cheap $100 x-mart bike was done in 20 minutes flat.

Lately I've been having to report to work at 6am. I wasn't motivated to ride but buying a new bike helped that. And now I actually prefer riding that early in the morning. There is no traffic and no sun = cooler. I wasn't sweating nearly as much as I usually do commuting to work.

I may still wake up and come to work this early even when I don't need to anymore (b/c of work). It was a very peaceful ride this morning :)

Did my first commute on my new road bike that I purchased this weekend. WOW!

A ride that took me 30-35 minutes on my cheap $100 x-mart bike was done in 20 minutes flat.

Lately I've been having to report to work at 6am. I wasn't motivated to ride but buying a new bike helped that. And now I actually prefer riding that early in the morning. There is no traffic and no sun = cooler. I wasn't sweating nearly as much as I usually do commuting to work.

I may still wake up and come to work this early even when I don't need to anymore (b/c of work). It was a very peaceful ride this morning :)

Cool weather with the threat of rain. I packed my full rain gear so i can virtually garuntee it won't rain during the commute anyway. I wore a light sweater and was too hot. Really nice ride in though.

Gah! Terrible commute today...Somehow I pedal through an entire Calgarian winter without getting anything but the sniffles, and now that it's June and positively balmy I wind up getting sick. Riding a bike with a cough and full body ache is teh suxzors.

nice ride in this morning - very HOT though. Should be an very steamy ride home with a high temp of 101 and heat index of 105

Hot and humid ride in this morning. Temp was around 80 when I left home and I was drenched in sweat after my 10 mile ride. First time on the bike since my week long vacation in Bermuda and it's hotter here than it was on vacation. I am not looking forward to the mid 90s and humidity for the uphill ride home.

Tomorrow looks to be even worse...

Bucking the trend here - cool (60 deg) and misty on the ride in. Nice mellow ride, took it easy most of the way. Sun is starting to burn off the marine layer, though, so should be quite a bit warmer on the way home.

No kiddin, Bluefish. Today was awesome. And it's shaping up to be another beautiful day in paradise. The ride home will be warm, but that's the more down-hill side of the trip for me. [Only 350 ft of climbing, compared to 680 on the way in..]

Today was my first ride with my first wicking t-shirt, bought at Target over the weekend. I definitely "get it" now. I was positively dry when I got to work [other than my head. I think I need a haircut].

Oh, and I need to put my rack and panniers on, if I can stay away from Mountain Biking long enough to make it worth the effort. The backpack is now my weak link.

Double oh.. Today was the first day [of my three days of commuting] that I was able to ride the whole 7.5 miles without a single break. Normally I need two breaks when I'm dealing with the hills, but not today!

Nice easy ride this morning. I had an 80 mile ride with my bike club Saturday and came down with a bug at the end of the ride. Then spent Sunday recovering. I still have a touch of it but I feel relatively fine. Just don't ride behind me due to the fact that my congestion is still clearing up.

I found a way to make my commute seem flatter. Go ride up in the Rockies and find a road where the grade tops out at 23 percent. Wow that was fun. :eek:

"Ahhh...so that's what made that noise!" is what I thought when I got to work and discovered the hook was missing from my pannier. Seems that hooking the hook over two bungees that are already hooked to the rack is a good way for the hook to get caught in the spokes and torn off the bag, then caught between the wheel and fender before being lost forever. I had stopped after hearing that racket, did a quick inspection and didn't see the hook was missing. Oh well. At least the sweat on my back was allowed to run freely into my underwear instead of being trapped between my back and my bag like it used to pre-pannier days.

I guess I can't stand being asymmetrical. :)

I fell last week because I forgot which foot I stop on and unclipped the wrong foot and ended up with a scraped right knee. This morning I fell for some unknown reason...I unclipped my right foot, and am pretty sure I leaned to the right to put the foot down, but ended up falling over to the left, scraping my left knee and loosening the quick release lever on my back wheel. So when I clip my left foot back in to start riding again (yes, without checking the bike out), I promptly fall over again.

Finally figured out why the back wheel would not move (I've learned how to use my eyes) and got back on the road. Had to cut the commute short to make it to work on time. Just glad it wasn't anything worse than a mildly bruised ego. :)

Even at 5:15AM today, it was in the 70's and humid. The ride home will be in the high 90's with a heat index of 105-107. That'll be fun. Not! I've been drinking water all day and will take it easy on the ride home.

Misty. I am working on my committment to spinning, averaging 12mph, and using the wide unused sidewalk on the 40 mph 5 lane road (that people go 50 on) that is the last leg of my commute.

The wind has finally stopped, at least for the day, and the weather was absolutely amazing. 59F, bright blue sky, and just the wispiest of breezes.

Seemed to be fewer commuters on the bike trail this morning. The freeway fully open this week so perhaps some of our "Big Fix" bike commuters decided to get back in their cars today.

Either that or they came over here. My lord. Just about every street had a couple cyclists on it. I stopped counting after I hit 30. Even my area up north had a few commuters. I usually see one once a week.

Just got home. Flatted on the way home--the tire was flat yesterday but I filled it and it held air overnight. I should have known better than to be lazy. Instead of changing a tire this morning in the (relative) cool of my garage with a floor pump and soap to clean up, I changed it in a gas station parking lot in the heat after pulling over in the middle of heavy traffic, having to use a frame pump and wipe down with the extra shirt I was bringing home from work. It's official. I'm an idiot.

Partly sunny
Temperature: 88°
RealFeel™ Temp: 90°
Humidity: 45%

Supposed to hit 91° on the way home.
Still achy after yesterday's singletrack adventure.
Visibility: 10 mi
Winds: SW 14 mph
Pressure: 29.94 in

Naaahhhhh. A real idiot would have tried to ride home on the flat, sort of like the cagers who insist on driving with the flat going wop, wop, wop - thinking that going slowly won't damage the rim.

I was a little cold this morning. Ride time temp was in the upper 40's with a little headwind. I couldn't get warm and just soft-pedaled in. I forced a couple of intervals on my cold legs and that helped to warm me up. Ride home should be near 80 with a breeze and low humidity.

Pretty humid this morning, and in the 60s. I was a rocket though. :p Reeled in & passed 4 other cyclists. Someone came onto the MUP behind me but I lost the person pretty easily. Lots of energy for some reason. One rider, and then another, caught me at a red light and we complained about the humidity, then I just rode with them for a block to my office building.

Well, after taking most of the week off last week I started this week off right by commuting. The ride in was great. Temp was in the 70s. No wind. I did have a tire problem, though. I went to the closest gas station to top off the air in my tires. Well their pump is broken so it let out about 20psi from my front tire. The next closest gas station was about a mile the opposite direction so I hauled ass over there to top off and guess what? Their pump was out of order! So I just started my commute, being extra cautious of road hazards and bumps. Filled up about 2 miles later at another gas station.

Coming home my time has gotten better. My computer said the temp was 110. Google says the high today is 98. It sure felt like 110 to me.=) I altered my route a bit. I didn't shave off any miles, nor would I want to. I just eliminated a couple of undesirable roads. It only took me about 40 minutes as opposed to the 45-50 it has taken me previously.

Side note: My computer sucks. I have adjusted and tweaked it a dozen times, but no matter what I do it won't register once I reach speeds over about 18 miles an hour...the screen just goes blank. And then I look at it today when I got home and it says max speed is 40.7mph? I dunno, that seems pretty fast. I do have one good hill that I fly down in the morning, but 40.7mph?
Also my trunk bag slid off of my rack and onto my back tire, burning a nice little hole in it. I've only had it two weeks. I already don't like it though, at least not for the way in which I use it.