Weather was so perfect today, I took the long way, both in the morning and evening.

Made up for lack of Thursday commute with a trip to Tahoe for a bike ride with wife and baby and friends. We went about 10 miles round trip, from Tahoe City nearly to Homewood and back on their local MUP. She towed the baby trailer this time, and her pace doing that is just about the same as mine without it, so we stuck together well. The group sort of came apart for an hour or so as our batch went back to the cars while another went back to look for his lost keys. That successful, we all wound up back at a resort hotel on the water for lunch, and I had a nice lobster sandwich and let the baby play on the rocky beach.

It's strange to talk about me and my wife and fitness. She has back trouble and rides less often, but I have heart trouble, so she's faster but pays for it later.

No commute today :mad: .. pretty sure I have pneumonia again, woke up unable to breath. Got caught out in the rain on a 14 mile ride yesterday. As long as the boys are okay I'll take it!

71F/ 22C, and that was at 05:15 coming in...getting steamy already here in DC.

Rides have been good lately but it's time for a tuneup after three years of daily commutes! Back tire went flat again after I changed the tube ;ast week, not sure what is up with that. So today I rode a DC Bike Share in...not bad but knda like driving a lead sled.

Travelling for a while so no commutes...but that gives my LBS time to give my bike a thourough review.

Warm and wet this morning with Tropical Storm Ana centered right over NC. Fortunately, I had a window between bands of rain showers and was able to ride to work relatively unscathed. The streets were soaking wet and it was sprinkling much of the way, but no soakers. I am hoping that the storm will be well past our area by the time I head home this afternoon. This is the earliest I can remember us having a TS, so I hope it's not a harbinger of the year to come.

I run about 3 days of the week - usually before my commute - and also on the weekends. Running to work sounds good, but I don't like carrying anything when I run which would make a few things more difficult. Plus I don't have a shower at work so would need to find an alternative there.

It seems Charlotte area is just missing this. We had some clouds and wind yesterday, but minimal rain. And the humidity is up. We actually need rain.

Good ride in. I saw a little field mouse contemplating if he should cross the road. I scared him back into the tall grasses possibly saving him from the next oncoming vehicle. Yea, I'm a bit of a hero.

Oh, and I hear it is Bike to Work Week this week. So, I guess I'll do that.

Tho the sun's been rising before I get to work the last couple of weeks. Today is my first morning commute where I saw the sun.

63F and rain - right in that un-sweet spot when it's too warm to wear rain gear and if I don't I get cold when wet. Sounds like an excuse for more gear!

perfect commute.

i'm skipping jay street these days. it's just a fine mess.

had a moment with a traffic cop b/c a car on the corner of tillary and adams st decided to just stop in a moving lane and try to move to a lane it was blockaded out of with batons. every car behind it was honking. i said "you see that guy not moving?" and he said "yeah i see him. he's the one in the car, and he can't make a safe move, can he?" (or so i thought). but at that point, i went on the entrance to the Brooklyn bridge and left the honking in the distance.

commuted on a new-to-me surly crosscheck. what a beast. pretty happy with it. :)

Dropped off the car at the repair shop and then commuted to work from there. The receptionist at the shop asked if I had arranged for a ride to work, and I said "yes... my bike". She looked at me a little strange and then said "well, that's a new one".

Mileage was almost the same as my normal commute. A little chilly this morning at 46F and strong winds.

63 degrees and Humid today. Good ride in this morning! 80 or degrees on the ride home. Have to hustle to make a meeting in another town.

Fantastic. Rainy, but back on my cross bike because I received the serviced BB back so could ride it with the cranks turning in a single plane and the chain staying on. Those 35mm tires are so cushy.

Headwind

Humidity spiked this morning but other than that my 20 mile commute (about 1.5 hours) was relaxing change to driving in. Looks like it may be a wet and stormy ride home, but I don't care, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. :)

On these days that I ride before working from my own basement, I think I need to get an earlier start. One road on my favourite route has a couple schools along it, and if I leave too late, it's thick with mommy traffic, most driving minivans or luxury crossovers. Couple close passes and got cut off once, but wasn't a big deal.

The city is greening up nice, but it was a chilly ride - only 3C/37F when I left the house.

headwind but not bad. It rained for about 5-10 mins, enough to get me soaked, sans raingear. No biggie.

Today's commute from my house to my home office was funny (at least I think so). I got up at 6:00 and it was around 55F, rained over night, so I thought I'll wait to ride until it warms up and dries off. So I started working away and got ready to ride at 10:00. Temps dropped to around 45F and it started raining lightly. Best laid plans of mice and men....

Great ride, never the less, I've got a gravel century on Saturday (Almanzo 100). I know the ride has some steep climbs on gravel roads, so my "commute" took me up some of the steepest climbs in my area and focus on staying in the saddle and spinning up the steep climbs. 2,200 feet of climbing in 28.5 miles. Not bad for Minneapolis - AKA flatland.

Footnote, my summer gloves were a poor choice, my finger tips were number for about an hour after I got home. It's challenging to operate the keyboard and mouse with numb finger tips.

I feel that pain! My old commute route went past three schools: a grade school, a middle school, and a high school. No mater what time I made my ride, I had mommy traffic to deal with (or worse, 16-year-olds driving themselves to school). Not the most attentive/thoughtful drivers. Do any children ride the school bus any more?

I had a nice uneventful commute this morning. The temp was 50f degrees with clouds and fog and mist.

Back in the saddle again felt great. A bit chilly on the way down but perfect on the way up. Doc gave me a inhaler yesterday thought it may be allergic reaction. Talk about :twitchy: after those 2 puffs!

Like summer today, hot and humid. Temps close to 70 F on the morning leg and supposed to hit 90 this afternoon. Very humid, tropical air left over from Ana, and I was completely drenched from sweat by the time I reached work. Cold front supposed to pass through this afternoon or tonight, which should cool down temps and lower the humidity for the rest of the work week.

My weather is the same as tarwheel's today. I left a little early and got a couple of extra miles in this morning - 15 total. We have a little janitorial closet that I'll use to hang up any damp clothing to dry during the day. There are four guys here who sometimes ride their motorcycles to work. When they do, they'll hang their black leather jackets in the same closet. Today they all did, so the close has 4 black leather jackets and one pair of black lycra shorts. Ha!

DITTO for me this morning!

great ride home last night.

Check out this video! It was released last week. pretty excited to be encouraging a company to think about bike commuting for workers. :)

Well no riding yesterday or today. Yesterday I didn't because the wife and I had a function after work. Glad I drove...on the way home I encountered the wrath of mother nature....rain so strong I couldn't see the hood of my car, winds picked up to 60 mph and then the hail started.

The 11 o'clock news last night was calling for more severe storms this afternoon

:eek: I was almost run down by my boss.

One of those days where the commute is a dream. Clear skies, beautiful temperature, nice headwinds...a day to die for. And, I almost did--the lady who owns the company almost plowed me down with her Escalade.

It was one of those deals in an office park where the intersection has a yield sign instead of a stop. I saw her vehicle approach the intersection, and I didn't pay it much attention since I was on the main thoroughfare which had right of way, and I expected her to stop. What I failed to take into account was that I was in her blind spot the whole time (we never made eye contact). I broke a cardinal rule there.

I also forgot that the interaction was a yield. She, of course, did not see me and kept rolling. The result is she almost T-boned me. I swerved just in time and she hit the brakes instead of the gas. Irony is this is the closest I've ever come to being hit.

I don't think this is irony. I think it is terrifying. I'm glad it was only a close call.

Winds for the ride last night were brutal. It wasn't even a pure headwind, but it was strong enough that it felt like it was swirling from every direction. Much nicer this morning. A little cool (44F), but light winds, clear skies!

When in the drops, I find headwinds to be less encumbering than one coming at me from 45°.

I enjoy the drops on windy days. They certainly help. The ones from the sides are the ones that make me most nervous in traffic. I have been blown to the left many times mostly when no traffic was around. thank goodness