It was a beautiful morning. It's been beautiful all week. I've generally been too busy to hop on BF and check the forums, but I've been commuting every day. Yesterday was particularly nice, especially in the afternoon after work... had a nice tailwind and a need to make it to class early to prepare for a presentation, so I was booking it and enjoying every minute.

The weather this week is the perfect example of why I love this time of year. Low forties in the AM, fifties in the PM. Easy to ride and not worry about sweating, al without having to wear too many clothes. Shorts still work, long sleeves on top feel cold for the first mile or so then become perfectly comfortable. And since others find it "cold' the number of commuters is down, so I have the trail more or less to myself at times, a nice treat.

crisp 28F this am and most of the trees are already bare. It's supposed to get to 50F this afternoon - might have to leave my office clothes at work to have enough room in panniers to take all my cold weather gear home!

Little Cool for the Panhandle
 

It was 42 degrees when I left the house. Commute was good, traffic was very light before the holiday. Looking forward to riding for fun tomorrow..

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Last nights ride was great, -5C with a light tailwind, clear skies, and a setting crescent moon. I was flying along pretty fast and averaged 19kph, despite having to slow for loose snow, back track a few times and walk the bike through some rough spots.

-9C with a 15kph headwind this morning. I wore my respirator for the first time this season, which made for a much more comfortable ride. I added a merino sweater layer, and ended up being a little too warm.

With all the extra calories I'm burning, skipping breakfast hasn't been an option lately. I bought some bottles of Boost to try for after my ride, but I keep forgetting to take one out of the fridge. So for today I had to settle for some corn flakes, then a granola bar and OJ after getting to school.

Wow, another dry day. It was cool around lunchtime but had warmed up to around 9C by the time I left for home. Beat the rain by about an hour...

Zero wind and dry pavement. I love it! I'd take a day like today every day if possible.

Yesterday's commute was the first somewhat wet one since I installed fenders on my bike. Not raining, but enough water on the ground to through gritty grey goo onto me and my bike. But I made it to work and home clean and dry, and at a good pace to boot. :thumb:

after having had the flu, a bad cold and a sore back, i finally commuted again. surprisingly i am in better shape. good to be on a bike again.

really warm today 9C/50F

hands were very sweaty :(

Fine morning with a nice fast ride. 24.5kph average and 45.9kph top.

Dark morning but not to cold at all 48F/9C. Just riding along! I do think i want to get a better headlamp system.

Great ride to start the week with a nice tailwind most of the way. The wind has been blowing out of the north for about 2 weeks solid, which is unusual for here as our prevailing wind is from the SW. This will be a short commuting week for me because I am off work Wednesday through Friday, but plan to do a lot of riding on my days off with nice weather in the forecast. We are having a Thanksgiving feast at work tomorrow, so I'll need to carry a bunch of food and might just ride my touring bike with panniers.

25F/-4C under clear sky this morning. My eyes really watered up, even with glasses on. Wish they weren't so sensitive to the cold like that. I took the MUP. The wooden-deck bridges were frosty but not slick. A man was walking a very fuzzy dog, and it thought I was the most amazing & incredible thing it had ever seen. :o

Ride was okay this morning. Quick and uneventful (thankfully). It is however frustrating to have people come up to you and tell you what safety equipment you should have equipped on your bike and as part of your kit. I work at a company where safety is a big deal, but then we have a lot of self-proclaimed experts. I ride with a helmet rear flasher and rear reflector. If I am going to be working late I usually rock the safety vest. This morning however led one of the safety nuts to my lockup spot to tell me that I need to run a full light kit with reflective tape on the bike and this and that safety, safety, safety... blah blah blah. Needless to say, I tuned out after a few minutes of that. Besides, you can only engineer out so much of the risk out of a morning ride. The next step would be to not ride at all and live in fear of the outside world. I don't forsee that happening anytime soon. Hopefullly the ride home will end on a higher note than the ride in.

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Weather forecast today - low 50's, 1.5" - 2" of rain and 20 - 30 mph winds w gusts up to 45 mph. Perfect cycling weather! Wasn't that bad going in though - I like it when that happens. Fingers crossed for the trip home.

Forecast pulled a fast one on me this morning. It was only supposed to get to -7C, but it was -9 when I got up. On the way in I thought it felt colder, and when I checked the weather at school, the temp had fallen to -12C with a 17kph headwind. I was a bit cool but not uncomfortable.

The real time weather site I like to check has been very inaccurate the past few days, so I can't trust it's readings.

I'm riding my mountain bike since it has got a bit icy on the roads.

a balmy 40F this morning and at 3p it's 55F - should be a nice ride home (though cloudy). Sadly, because of the holiday this is my only commute ride this week. I'm sure we'll all be riding hard on Thursday! Happy Thanksgiving!

Bike lanes were full of slimy mashed up leaves after the weekend storm. Bleagh.

22F on the way to work. dressed appropriately. don't mind it any more.

45F/sunny on the way home. baselayer/jersey/thermal knickers. nice and warm in the sun, -cold- in the shade. long shady stretch and my 'nether region' was frozen. probably should have stuffed a plastic bag down there and brought a wind vest......

3C/37F ... i switched to my XC ski gloves and they're great!

i went over 1000km for the year (first year commuting)

i'll hit it from the beginning of the year next year and see what I can tally :D

The commute was very wet and windy here in the NW. At least it was a high of 50 in temp. That will change starting in Dec. when we will see temps at a high of 28. I wish I was a snow bird right now.

The ride in last night was wet, flooded streets, traffic snarled to a grid lock at most intersections, and a little windy. Fantastic ride in and looking forward to the ride out.:thumb:

Winds died down from yesterday, more late Fall commuting joy. Lots of runners using the dedicated bike lanes in the morning. I am generally ok with it but I doo not like passing a guy running with traffic, wearing headphones.

This is the PERFECT time of year to commute in the desert - early mornings in the 40s, crisp and windless, and the afternoon ride home in the 70s. Life simply feels renewed by the morning ride.

We are having our Thanksgiving feast at work today, and I rode my touring bike so I would have room to carry my contribution to the food. I make pecan pie tarts every year, and people depend on my to bring them and have been reminding me. So I made a batch last night, which pretty well filled up my trunk bag this morning. Didn't have to worry about carrying lunch, however, since there will be so much food at work. My touring bike is heavier and slower than my other bikes but rides very nice with 32 mm tires and a Brooks B17 saddle. My morning commute took about 5 minutes longer than usual but I enjoyed the cushy ride. I'm off work the rest of the week, so no more commuting until next week.

The nice weather this week made it too irresistible to not keep cycle commuting, so the 2012 season continues for me on a day to day basis.

Not sure how this thread works exactly, but I road from W and 15th st NE to the library in Indian Head, MD. Today is incredibly warm with a mean head wind. I hope the wind does not change direction as it gets dark. 2 nights ago I had to call it quits riding from Fredricksburg back to DC on hwy 210. I set my tent up along the highway and made a small fire. (I always carry my tent and sleeping bag- ya never know).

The weather's gone berserk! The daytime temperature hasn't fallen below 20C (68F) during the whole of November, and even today when the skies darkened and I was cycling to work in a torrential downpour, I was soaked in sweat from the humidity and rain-gear. On the way back, the sun came out and the temperature rose to around 22-23C (70-74F) making cycling with anything more than a t-shirt uncomfortable.

Even for Athens, these high temps are unnatural during Autumn, and I find myself longing for winter temps and less sweat!

+5C, too darn warm! I took the Pugsley since there wasn't any ice, though I will probably have to keep my eyes peeled tonight. I raised the pressure to 7 front / 11 rear which sped me up quite a bit, but sacrificing some floatation / traction in the few soft spots.. The packed snow has softened up enough that people with normal sized tires are sinking into it. That's one of the things I dislike most about warm weather during the winter.