12degC/54F and lightly raining this AM. Quite a bit of a headwind...I hope it keeps up.
My neck is still kind of stiff...I think from carrying my younger kid up the grouse grind (hike 2700' elevation gain). I thought he could hike more than 4 minutes. He turns 4 monday.

I think I made some enemies on my commute today :D

Was pumped after a good workout. Left the gym late intentionally. Planned to haul as much ass as possible on my way to work, just felt pumped and ready to go.

everything was going great, even kept pace with traffic going 40mph for one short downhill stretch. Was flying. Then I see it. Giant row of red lights :/ Last mile or so was completely backed up with traffic. Didn't get to go even half as fast as I wanted.

I just rode to the side of all the cars and worked my way up to the last light before where I work. Got honked at and had a few people swerve their cars towards my to block my path.

Don't ****ing get it. Ok, you're stuck in traffic. That sucks. But I'm on a pencil dick road bike, no need for me to be stuck too when I can just go around you :/

Hah hah, drivers must be extra sensitive in N.C.! The Boston drivers don't seem to get that pissed unless I clip their side mirrors.

third day this week that my ride in started off clear and cool, and ended in heavy fog. Saturday is perhaps my favorite day to commute because traffic is so much lighter, and I'm able to take a shorter route that's usually packed with cars during the week. It's nice to have the change of scenery. My ride home was fun last night; I rolled down the MUT for several miles with another commuter who was pretty interesting. I'm going to mix it up a bit on the ride home this afternoon, and take a route I used to ride regularly before I settled into my current routine.

I've noticed drivers HATE it anytime I'm passing them. Traffic was bad on a busy 45mph road and I was passing cars frequently. Saw a lot of them try to get in the other lane, floor it etc., just to get around me, only for me to pass them two seconds later.

I get it all the time. I'm claiming a lane, heading out of a parking lot, and someone drives into the oncoming traffic lane 50' before the parking lot ends just to get in front of me before pulling out into the road. Last time someone pulled that there was traffic coming, so while they waited I just pulled up right in front of them on my bike and gave them a wave and a smile, then pulled out first :D

Ride 'home' today was great. After work some coworkers and I fell in with about 500 other riders doing the Dallas local brewery circuit. Lots of tasty craft beer to be had along the way. After a stop for eats, we took an enjoyable turn around the Trinity River levees. Eventually lengthening shadows hastened the actual ride home.

Good times.

Last week was rough. On Monday Feb 2nd we woke up to 5 to 10cm of snow. In some parts of the city there was 20cm. So I took out my hiking poles and walked to work through the park trail were I normally go. Might get criticized by some because there’s bound to be tons of people who bike in the snow even though I didn’t - or maybe it's a Canadian thing.

Tuesday biked to work but stayed on the sidewalk avoiding the park trail until I crossed the DVP to safely bike on the street. I figured the snow in the park hadn’t been packed down enough. But the sidewalk was rough. I felt like it was only partially plowed but I figured the street plow must have messed up the sidewalk. Wednesday and Thursday biked on the sidewalk to work but on the return home, tried to bike through the park trail. Still too rough and deep.

Friday biked most of the way to work on the sidewalk and street but about a km to go my cassette was spinning. At first it felt like my chain had fallen off. When I was trying to put it back on, I noticed the cassette was all wobbly. When I got to work, I took the wheel off and brought it to my desk to examine. There was no way I could have put the cassette back on the wheel. At 3pm the bike mechanic at the nearest LBS only a block away said my wheel was toast and he didn’t have a wheel to replace it. My bike was a low cost dept store bike and wasn’t work paying $100 to fix.

Luckily a year before my son had picked up a bike that the neighbour had thrown out. It’s the same size wheel so on Saturday, I swapped the snow tires and got the second beater bike road worthy c/w bell, mirror, and rear pannier rack.

We’re getting 15cm on snow so I probably wouldn’t be riding tomorrow (Monday Feb 9th) but will give it another try on Tuesday.

Unseasonably warm for the first part of this week. I wore shorts for this morning's 53F ride. However there is a chance of rain this afternoon. Nothing else exciting to report.

I finally finished the fender installation on my intended-to-be-year-round-commuter bike, just in time to ride in on a rain-slicked morning. I gathered from Weather Underground that there was little risk of rain, it was just wet out. Boy, was this off base. The good news is that the SKS fenders did a great job with any wheel spatter. Bad news is that I still got chain gunk spattered on my right pant leg, and my topside got rained on. The storm has now passed and the rest of the day, week, probably year and decade at the rate we're going, will be dry and sunny and I'll never need the fenders again.

27F and wet from freezing fog. I had really hoped to ride my road bike (especially since this weekend was beautiful and in the upper 50's) but the work week brought winter back so studded tires it is. Still not as bad as you east-coasters have it

Forecast was for a chance of freezing rain, but I decided to ride anyway. Turned out to be regular rain. Woohoo! :)

Crushed it! Had a couple of PR's. I'm on Sudafed and Tylenol today, this doping thing is no joke

My morning ride was exactly the same route as the evening but Strava gave it another half mile distance. I checked the morning ride and it looks like I was pin-balling around the route. Strange!

What the hell!

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That's what happens when you mix Tylenol and Sudafed! LOL

A dusting of snow fell last night, but I figured the main roads would be clear. I was mostly right. There were some spots with a bit more slush that others, but vehicles were accommodating.

This morning, I noticed that my chain is rusting. Oops! I guess I haven't been lubing it regularly. It's time for a new one anyway; this one has about 2500 miles on it.

Took the day off for no good reason. Got a dinner thing with a cousin I haven't seen in many years, so already had to get an after work pickup from the wife. She was up and we just decided for her to bring me in too. We drove a way that I don't ride and I saw a few other bike commuters. It made me feel guilty of course. Oh well, back at it tomorrow.

First ride since january 26th. There as been a bit of snow falling, 2-4 cm at a time, every 2 or 3 days. Just enough to keep me off the bike. This morning I took a chance, it was okay but there was a few tricky spots here and there, I left early just in case so I was able to go safe and slow when I had to.

Strava has done that to me once before too.

I need a ride soooooo bad... Last week, I only got 1-1/2 days commuting (Monday and Wednesday morning); Tuesday and Thursday required the car to carry snowboard gear to do my moon-lighting gig as a snowboard coach; Wednesday flatted the Pugsley on the way home (called AAA - AKA loving/supportive wife - for a ride); Friday was spent driving way up North to clean out mother-in-laws old house (unoccupied for 5 years). This week I'm at a business conference in Orlando - nice weather but NO BIKE :cry:

Enjoy your ride home today, and know that I'm jealous.

Second day commuting since I got my new commuter bike. I've been three+ weeks without a bike and it feels good to be back at it. The new bike is feeling good too, especially after I adjusted the rear wheel's dishing so it didn't rub on the fender any more (silly LBS). Also decided to take a different route that will give me a few more miles each day... a 3 mile commute just isn't long enough! :lol:

The most recent day I rode was January 29, and the cold and slippery surface convinced me to give it a break. My bike has been at the office since then. I think I'm going to ride it home tonight. We're having a very brief break from the bad weather.

Not too bad a ride to work with the refurbished beater bike my son picked up from the neighbour's curb. I confirmed with him that he was sure they were throwing it out since it was at the curb where people normally place their garbage bins for collection.

Gotta get used to the sticky shift levers again. They are located at the handlebars. The Mountain bike I was riding up until Friday had rotating handlebar shifters. Just rotate them while you're still gripping the handlebars.

The shifters or levers seem really tight so I have to investigate if they really are able to shift through all the gears.

21 miles down PCH to the SART. eating a nice lunch for the ride home against the wind.

I hear ya Hypno Toad. I'm on a business trip to Houston this week... with nice 70-degree weather... but no bike!

Cool ride in at 30F, but getting up to 55ish this afternoon. The sunshine was nice. I always like seeing my shadow projected on an embankment or row of trees lining the road. If I could just get a shadow-selfie somehow while riding.

The days are getting longer still. I don't really even use the headlight anymore.

Yesterday's ride home was more interesting than I like.

Riding N. on 15th Ave crossing Roosevelt I saw a cyclist pulling a trailer going NW on Grand Ave. I had the light and traffic was fairly heavy. He crossed Roosevelt using the crosswalk then turned N. on 15th Ave right in front of me without even looking. I slowed to his speed of about 8mph and was waiting for a break in traffic to pass him.

About 100ft from the intersection, without looking, he starts a left turn. Traffic was way too heavy and I hadn't even looked for a break yet. Squealing tires and honking horn the car that should have hit him stops inches away. He turns back into the bike lane and proceeds N. He waved at the driver as he did. Not sure if it was an apology or what. A block up he turns off to the right and I proceed at a normal pace.

That was enough excitement for me but there's one more incident. At this intersection

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I always get into the left tire track to wait for the light. You don't have to agree with me but there are two reasons for this based on my experience at this intersection. First to let people turning right do so without having to worry about me. Second, while the intersection is wide enough for me to be out of the way to the right it narrows quickly after the intersection. Where it narrows I've had people misjudge timing and brush my sleeve with their mirrors trying to cut around traffic in the main lane. I have learned that taking the lane prevents this.

At the intersection a car pulls up behind me and starts laying on the horn. The driver starts yelling get out of the way. I decide to ignore him as the light is about to change. He pulls up on my right and starts yelling some more. I don't have time to explain the above to him so I just point and say, "You're missing the green!" We both start then and go on our way. Several more people in the main lane honked at me as they passed. Usually traffic just ignores me.

The incident has me thinking. All the other cyclists hang way over to the right. Almost to the crosswalk. Even the ones I consider to be the "serious" cyclists. I can ride out of the way to the right letting people who want to speed thru the intersection do so. But I've always figured that the right lane is for slow vehicles, me or for people turning right. Not for speeders wanting to bypass the regular traffic which is almost always doing the speed limit anyway. Feel free to look at the intersection and tell me what you think. If you do, take a look up ahead where the right lane disappears and the bicycle lane hasn't appeared yet. That's the choke point where I've been brushed before.

Overslept by more than an hour this morning, so I had a lot of scrambling around to do. I didn't want to miss another commute after two days of rain here from a nor'easter, so I skipped my morning coffee and wolfed down a quick breakfast. It sure was nice to see the sun again. Yesterday was about as nasty weather as we get around here -- temps in the 30s, very windy and raining most of the day.

Last night: Lots of snow in various forms on the ground, and mixed textures are the worst kind. I walked through some and hobbled and slid and faltered in a lot of it. They just don't plow the path in a useful way, north of the George Washington Bridge. I also hit a mud patch from all the melting, making the bike fishtail, but so far, I haven't fallen yet.

It's cold and windy today, so I didn't ride. The bike I had left in the office for two weeks is now at home.

I was so excited this morning that it was nice enough (29F and dry) to ride my road bike that I left one of my panniers on the other bike. Fortunately, I got the one with my clothes but no keys, tools, spares, etc. I feel naked without that stuff

Yesterday (drizzle/light rain) i was in a quiet neighbourhood street (bike route) going straight at a traffic circle, not particularly fast, and some hipster doofus in a Honda Element doesn't even slow down and enters the traffic circle full speed. I slammed the brakes and he whizzed by about a foot from my front wheel. Then, he stops completely, just past the traffic circle. I went around him and hit his window to give him **** for being a jerk, but he was COMPLETELY clueless. He had no idea what had just happened and that I was even there--I think he was lost. At least he wasn't being an ******* about it so I couldnt stay mad--I just told him to watch where he was going.

This AM--cloudy 7degC/45degF but felt warmer.