I smoked a sparrow or some other birdie a few weeks ago. They always hang out by the side of the road and when they saw me coming took off, but one decided to go into the street instead of the other way. Got caught up in my front wheel and "BZZZZZTTT" Never had to clean feathers out of a front mech before...

Awesome except ... I took an alternate route that let me get into a bit of a time-trial mode but then I stopped off to buy some stuff before the last couple miles to the office and when I bent over to use the atm card thing this huge waterfall of sweat fell off my head for longer than it took me to swipe the card and punch in 4 digits. So that left me feeling a little awkward. But then it was back onto the bike into the headwind and everything cooled right back down!

It's not every day you get passed by a motor grader followed by a Nissan GTR, but today that definitely happened.

Very windy now, everyday is windy, by windy I mean 10-12 kmh or more. Is it just around here?
I'm getting used it little by little by still... I'd take a Wind free day once in a while.

Temp was cold this morning for the season at 5°c when I left home. A bit of rain on my way to work but not much.

Lovely beginning to the holiday weekend here on the beach. My usually busy intersections were completely free of traffic and there was a bit of a breeze to keep the temperature mild. Now the ride home, which will be filled with tourist traffic and high humidity, will be another story

Yesterday afternoon there were 2 accidents on the interstate. This caused a lot of drivers to divert to secondary roads. Exiting our business park put me on one of those roads. This two lane road has no bike lane, but I managed to carefully roll past many cars on the shoulder and/or keep pace with them as they crept along. The shoulder is bordered by cut grass so worst case would be I'd have to swerve into that.

Later on I got to a side road where cars were really backed up trying to turn right onto the already clogged secondary road. One guy was apparently not happy with sitting in such traffic and blamed it all on me. "Dumb f*****g idiot!" I just laughed and kept going.

A cool - compared to most days this month - 56F this morning. A light tailwind breeze helped me add a couple of extra miles. Best of all - it's Friday and Memorial Day weekend - 3 days off!

well, as expected yesterday the ride home was super windy. my weather app recorded gusts to 45 mph. i still had fun and enjoyed myself. no commute today as I have to pick stuff up from the dry cleaners and am certainly not set up to carry a comforter, sport jacket and dress all the way home

Beautiful, albeit a bit cool, ride in this morning. (49F) Light winds and a nice sunrise helped as well. Glad to get one more commute before the monsoon season returns this weekend. The weather folks keep changing it up, but we are definitely supposed to get some heavy rain at some point Saturday and/or Sunday.

Mother nature seems to be getting back to "supposed to be" weather though still not up to 50F and a little chilly. The sun's back out and might reach 70 today. Aaaahhhhh! It's race weekend - happy Memorial Day to my American commuter buds

If we had 12 kmh winds here, I would call it a calm day!

I meant that Under 12 kmh I won't call it windy. but the weakest Wind I got this week was about 20-25 kmh.

my commutes this past week have been amazing. gorgeous weather. no rain. it has been a bit cold. other days windy. it doesn't bother me. it's better than taking the subway!

i had a chance to commute by bike to the doctor for an app't. but...between being bombed at work and then my doc taking too long, i didn't. i took a car/cab. it was so bizarre to be riding in a car.

augh. i would so rather be cycling if not for the shortage on time!

anyway. i had a close call this AM. i was riding alongside traffic when a car decided to mash into my lane without so much of a signal or anything. i was beyond ticked. i screamed because he nearly hit me, then i circled back. and i yelled, you have a damn mirror, use it! LOOK in the mirror beforehand, LOOK! then i rode away. the man, Asian 40s-50s just shrugged as if he did nothing wrong.

this same area 2 weeks earlier, i had someone do that to me purposefully - he (white male, 50s, short crewcut, big guy) drove into me and forced me into the oncoming lane (2 way street). i yelled of course ("I'M RIGHT HERE! STOP DRIVING!") but he did it anyway, to get ahead and make a left onto Fulton St. from Gold St. another cyclist who saw the whole thing and who was behind me (an older Asian man on a folder 50s) rode up to me and said i should go after him. of course i didn't. i'm not suicidal. when someone aggressively drives into a cyclist, you don't go flying after them. i filed it on closecalldatabase and i wrote to the councilmember and to the police.

so, am not pleased about these two close calls. but that area is a disaster zone. double parking everywhere. no crosswalks on Fulton so pedestrians jay walk. it's just an accident waiting to happen.

this is district 1 coming off the brooklyn bridge, just south, right around Pace University and the hospital.

haven't had any issues elsewhere. just this section.

I've been looking forward to todays ride all week; there was only a 40% chance of rain, and heck, this is California where it never rains. All was dry when I got up, and about 5 minutes before I was ready to push off, my wife tells me it was raining. Sure enough, it was coming down pretty hard. I gambled and won; the first 5 miles of my ride, it was pouring. Then, it turned into a light sprinkle. By mile 10, the rain was gone, and I was able to change out of my hot rain jacket, and put my vest back on. The rest of the ride was absolutely perfect. My shoes are currently in front of a small fan drying, and I'd imagine that my ride home will be beautiful. I look forward to riding over the 5 freeway today; on the eve of a holiday weekend, it's going to be jam packed with people trying to get out of town, or to San Diego. Thankfully I wont be sitting there with everyone else.

Today's commute was very wet here on Cape Cod, luckily going home will be dry and minimal wind looking forward to it.

One more full bike commuting week.
Participated in the Ride of Silence on Wednesday.

i live in Christchurch, New Zealand.
we had several earthquakes recently & the roads are munted, most days there are more orange cones, roadworks & diversions
it makes for an interesting commute.

i get the smug, self satisfied feeling as I cruise past motorists sitting in queues caused by above mentioned cones, very satisfying

Bike to work day today here in Toronto..first stop there was only one person at the rendezvous point but added more as we headed to the city..then nice police escort all the way downtown to city hall That would be nice every day.. My left hand crank has been giving me trouble lately (unloosening while riding) so popped my electric horse into the LBS for diagnosis & repair while i walked into work, should be done by this afternoon...$38 if replacement needed, not bad.

Many years ago, my company's union negotiated that they would get rid of about half the federal holidays in exchange for the week between Christmas and New Year's. We don't get MLK, Columbus, Washington's birthday, or Veterans Day. Today is one of the holidays they kept. I'm staying off the bike. I have ridden the past four days, feeling good enough about that; and I have lots to do at home.

I've only got like 1 or 2 commutes left for the next almost 3 weeks

On the plus side, I am going to Santa Barbara for work. Don't think I will find any time to ride out there (12-15 hour days everyday) but at least it will be a nice destination.

On Saturday I rode to our local farmers/vendors market in the city. I did it in regular clothes since the weather was beyond perfect and had a blast doing it! The inlaws are in town so it was nice to ride there while them and the wife drove there.

Parents in town, daughter had ballet performance, plenty of food, and a nice Memorial Day ceremony made for a good weekend. I did not ride the bike any, but got a couple of runs in.

Back to riding this morning. Warmer - about 70F - but overcast and chances of rain today. We need it bad so whatever happens will be okay with me.

Great ride in this morning. Left early, it was misting the whole way. I'm gonna miss this for the next 3 weeks! Last commuting ride tonight. Going to try and play on the trails tomorrow or something, yardwork and packing Thursday and off to cali on Friday

For the past week, I've been "commuting" from Pittsburgh to Washington DC on the GAP-C&O Canal trails, averaging about 60 miles/day. Today I'm back in the real world, riding to work again. Tough ride to work this morning as my legs were tired from all the miles we racked up on our tour, there was a head wind, and I'm having to reacquaint myself to riding on the hills.

My god almost everyone in that picture is overweight. That's incredible.

Commute was good this morning. Perfect weather and slight head wind provided me just enough of an adrenaline rush to make good time.

67F, pretty good headwind, a couple days oft is great for fresh legs!