Really nice commute for me, and not just because of the ride. The ride itself was uneventful, which is always good. What made it better: I was cycling at a comfortable pace, not really pushing myself too hard, but not slacking either. Happened to look down and noticed that I was doing 18 mph. I started at a point where 12 mph was comfortable, 14 mph was a stretch - so this feels really good :D

Today was the first time I rode with the helmet cam. It might have just been me, but it seemed the traffic was a little more courteous than usual. Let's hope the trend continues on the ride home. :)

Nice and cool this morning, and it's getting to the point I have to start using the steady light soon, instead of the flasher.

Worst commute today since I started commuting!

At about mile six I got a slow flat. I thought "Lets just take care of it now rather than wait it out."

I hop off the bike, about five minutes later I've got the new tube on and I'm ready to inflate. So I pull out my Blackburn AirFix, flip the cart over to activate the inflater nozzle and start to screw it together... - "PSSSSHHHHHHH" (Insert Co2 escaping noise). The cart off gassed through the gasket until empty. "Crap, oh well I have two extra carts in my bag". Come to find out, the carts are too small -I didn't know carts came in different volume size, I thought my only conern was threaded or non-threaded- I was toast. I have a rack with a decent bag containing all the tools I would need, but I didn't have a hand pump!!! Lesson learned, Topeak Road Morph was orded next-day through Amazon. This won't happen again. Which will make the pit team, I mean wife happy.

Great commute, my first since installing my Forte Metro-K 26x1.25 slicks on the old Trek 800. Cut about 15 minutes off my 9 mile morning commute compared to the 1.95 knobbies that I took off. It was pretty mild weather too, which is nice.

Yea, I was on my slow bike and no tail wind, still one of my fastest ride home ever, just felt good. Nice ride.

on the commute home last night I saw:

a woman on rollerblades riding a city-bike with bolt cutters and sneakers hanging out of her backpack ... with her bf on blades next rolling along next to her ... lol

Best Wishes to the injured!


very cool temperature coming out of princeton just now. very comfy. so i came down washington from nassau and I see a vehicle that appeared to have its high beams on. about three thirty in the morning this can raise your alarm. i begin to pickup speed and the high beams dont get turned off. never saw a blinker but may have been the high beams. at the CJL or Frist I think it is this guy hooks a left seemingly without slowing. hit my breaks sliiiiiid.
who has to cut off a cyclist coming downhill to turn into a parking atea? scared hell out of me.

sorry my train arrived. anyway, I shout some obscenity at the driver. they basiclly saw me and raced to make their turn before me. what an assssssp!
hole!
jeep driver if you happen to see this:
please man!
cylce with mushy thing on top coming downhill vs bonehead in jeep flavored exo skeleton. jeep wins. squishy person dead. jeep owner troubled.
don' t be a troubled jeep owner!
i think this is my worst vent ever and none o this was written well or clearly depicted my situation. thougjt i was goimg to hit a vegicle moving easy 20 mph as i was doing prolly 15 to 20 myself

Dark, but pleasant at 64f (18c). A group of deer on the side of the road, and lots of bunnies, who no longer flee when they seem me coming. Only one deer bolted, the others just kept eating. I guess that I am old hat to the morning crowd. A fox yesterday did not see me until I was almost on top of him. I guess their tracking scents are not interrupted by whats going on around them.

Fletchh you just made me realize since my wife and I moved, I never get to see any wildlife on my short, urban commute. I used to see, on a regular basis, deer, wild turkey (the birds not the liquor), fox, bunnies, turtles, and other assorted critters. Now I'm happy if I see a neighborhood felis domesticus once in a while. :P

55F/13C and another sunny day for me. My eyes are back to tearing up in the wind for the first mile or so.

Funny you mention your eyes tearing up...I must have really sensitive eyes, these cooler temps in DC already have me teraing up when I fly down Capitiol Hill.

A picture perfect morning, perfectly still and cool.

Got lucky with the weather yesterday as the showers we had in the afternoon had passed on by the time I left work. It was really pouring about 3 pm. Mornings are starting to get pretty dark when I leave about 6:15 am. I use my lights year-round, all the time when commuting for visibility, but now the headlight is actually lighting up the road. Pretty soon I'll reinstall a small LED flashlight on my helmet, in addition to the handlebar light I use all the time.

chilly ride in this morning. Im not sure if it was the colder air or if Im just freaking tired, but the legs did not want to push today. Im actually dreading the ride home at this point

First day of new commute since moving. Fun commute. Gonna hate winter time and the strong on shore windss...but eh...screw it

http://app.strava.com/rides/19363574

A surprisingly good commute. I feel like a true commuter now with 2 panniers on my rack. Of course, my bike is now heavy as **** and is difficult to carry upstairs. Oh well, my arms will grow along with my legs.

Acceleration with all this new weight sucks...but it hasn't been that bad.

Wet roads and trails, but not raining this morning.

Had a near miss with another cyclist this morning - I was about to descend into a ravine as a group of three guys was emerging. The path at the top of the ravine is a bit narrow, and so I moved far right, and one of the guys coming towards me moved a bit too far to his right...and his tire slipped off the edge of the path (maybe a 2" drop) and he just about fell over (had he been clipped in, he probably would have) and lurched into my side of the path. Scared me a bit, but no contact.

I don't often see many other cyclists during my commute, but after a rain, you can see tire tracks on a dirt/gravel trail I sometimes take, and it looked like quite a few cyclists had been there before me already today. It's encouraging to see the evidence, even if I don't see the actual cyclists.

I'm just about ready to ditch my panniers for these reasons (and more).

I gotta carry what I gotta carry, so it's not like I have much of a choice.

I use a backpack. It's not for everyone, I understand, but having alternated between backpack and panniers a lot this year, a backpack is emerging as my favourite.

I actually moved from backpack -> backpack/1 pannier -> 1 pannier -> 2 panniers

The sweat was just too much for me to handle. I too prefer the backpack in terms of feel, but the sweat omg the sweat!

I'm resting (motorcycle) today but yesterday's commute was good. It was dark in the morning but no cars passed me in the 9 mile ride. The sun was just brightening things up when I rolled down the ridge into Dallas.

I decided to skip riding the bus part way home, and just rode the 29 miles home from Salem where I was working. River Road South is part of the Willamette Valley Scenic Bicycle Route, so I went that way. I hadn't ridden that way since I was in college. It's better now. I beat the afternoon rush hour, as I set out at about 3:20. It is scenic. I got home 20 minutes earlier than I would have had I ridden downtown and caught my bus out to Monmouth and ridden 14 miles home, but I was tired. That's a long ride for me. I first did it last week when the bus' bike rack was full and I had the choice of waiting an hour and a half for the next bus, or riding home. I rode home.

I did learn that I can stash my bike at the bus yard in the morning, for the days I work in Stayton. I don't want to try to catch my bus home from Stayton and have the bike rack be full, as that's 50 miles home. I want to do that ride some day, but I don't want to start after 4:30 pm to do it.

Today is only my third day of commuting ever, but I love it! The ride in this morning was especially nice. Clear skies, 65*F, and traffic wasn't too bad. I'm really glad that one part of my route (before I cross the bridge over the river) is a paved walking/cycling path, and I see more people than I originally expected out in the morning! I also met another cyclist once I was in downtown Tuscaloosa that was commuting as well (and a much longer commute than mine)...it's nice to see other commuters out on the road, as most of my friends seem to think that I'm crazy! :)

nice temperature this morning.
alot of traffic for 3am.
running late and tired.
i work about 35 miles from home and while i wish i had the energy to ride those 70 miles daily, I simply wouldnt have the time!hahha
so big ups and much respect to all you long haul commuters.
and get well wishes to the ill and injured

great! heading out to a strip club on the commute home ... actually, three strip clubs :D

The sad part is that they have built up the area so much that the animals have no place to go anymore. They have adpated to backyards and
slow flow waterinig holes. It is too bad that we couldn't have adapted to leaving them a large area to romp and live, but then again man is not the smartest creature...

Very nice ride in, as the weather continues to be perfect 65f (18c).