Another nice commute to work though I am not sure the turkeys would agree. I almost ran some over watching while watching them cross to the left but ignoring the right where they started. There were still some there. So one baby took flight, but the rest just ran. Anyway, no creatures were hurt by me today!

Last ride in for the week. July 4 holiday weekend begins tomorrow.

Nice ride in this morning but with a couple of squirrels threatening to cross my path. They thought twice and stayed away. I added a couple of miles and was just shy of 15 for the ride in.

Rock on! Was that all commuting? 60F in June, brrrrrrwtf

no that was total mileage for the month. :)

409. 95 commuting miles for the month

Rode some extra this morning and was almost late for work plus it started sprinkling. I will probably be getting wet on the way home today. 50% chance of rain :\

Into the wind again.. and when I go home into the wind again. Getting tired of battling of the wind 80% of the time. Guess I'm getting tired.. driving tomorrow due to heading to the campground. Other than the wind not bad.

great commutes lately. hot and dry...sunny every day. Very unusual for these parts for June. Sure could use some rain.
I left the house late this AM and hit every light green and hammered it here, and arrived on time. No wind.

I'll be moving late aug...bought half a duplex about 10 blocks away from the condo we live in now--same commute distance.

Loaned my parents my car for a weekend trip so I had a 15.5 mile ride from their house to work this morning. Couldn't have asked for a better day to ride, SUNNY, cool, and next to no wind. I was tempted to play hookey and keep riding when I got to work but decided in the end to do the responsible thing. Got a 50 mile ride home this afternoon to enjoy the nice weather, hopefully it won't get too hot today.

60F is cold? it was 65 for my commute this morning, and I was quite warm! 60F is ideal riding temps, IMHO.

Another late start, another hammer into the office, only to find out that the meeting I thought was at 9:00 was actually at 10:00.

It is for July, just like 45 is warm for January!!

6 miles into my commute, I felt rear going flat. Tire changing includes checking the flatted inner tube for the problem and then carefully inspecting the inside of the tire for glass shards still stuck in the tire. I found the leak in the tube and the corresponding exposed cords on the tire. I put a dollar bill and new tube in and headed home at a slower pace. So I drove to work :-) Fortunately, I had a pair of Conti GP4000s in my closet. I think 5000 miles on the Schwalbe Duranos was good value. The Contis have wear indicators!

Thankfully the temperature's been holding in the high 20's Celsius (low 80's Fahrenheit), making my commute to and from work comfortable, and because of the crisis, there's less people on the road which are driving substantially slower (in order to preserve any gas still left in the tank!).

Here's a couple of evening shots (sorry for the blurry one).

About to leave the office for home
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Blurry pic of my evening commute home
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After a short week last week, I'm back to the regular work week. A pleasant 70F this morning, but really humid (90%). Not a lot of traffic today as I imagine some are extending the long weekend.

Forecast is for low - mid 90s all week.

Pleasant morning ride, mid 60's, sunny and clear. A rather large fellow passed me on what looked like a brand new carbon Cannondale race bike. He was bouncing pretty badly which by itself would only make me think he didn't know how to ride. What really caught my attention was that the whole seat post and top of the seat tube were flexing... a lot! I don't want to be around when that snaps. Yikes!

Pleasant 70 degrees... a whole lot of debris on the greenway this morning. It made for a slower ride in having to dodge tree branches and other debris.

Bike advocacy meeting today so a dinner out for me and a fun time talking about biking and making it better in my community.

still super dry here. Smokey commute this AM: smoke from forest fires all around the province has been blowing into the city, so there is a thick haze and the sun is a barely-visible orange ball. You can feel it in your throat. No rain in the forecast, either.

It was a busy day on the roadway for wildlife this morning. I saw two deer crossing the road, and also a small bunny looked like he was being stalked by the two crows. When I went by the crows flew off leaving the bunny to run into the bushes. Hopefully the crows will leave him alone.

The commute itself was very nice as the temp was 65f degrees under partly sunny skies with the dewpoint at 70%.

I rode home yesterday. I rode back to work this morning.

Warmest morning of the summer so far, 77F. Pretty stiff headwind and high likelihood of more rain this afternoon... yay... not. June was a record rain month - hoping July doesn't follow suit

Cool and humid ride in this morning. Usually see a deer or six on my rides but nothing today. Deer were replaced with a few runners, a walker and one other guy biking. Normal is to see a lone runner. Supposed to be sunny and warm for the ride home. I'm sure the head wind I had this morning won't be there for a tail wind this afternoon.

haha made me laugh
I did the same !

Ha! I couldn't think of anything great that happened. Although yesterday I forgot to mention the dog that was walking down the street. He is known for chasing bikers and runners. It looks like he was returning home after having chased somebody, walking toward me on the opposite side of the road.

Sure enough as I got closer he started to cross toward me. I could tell he wasn't going to give much of a chase, but accelerated a bit anyway as he gave one bark at my rear hub. I'm amazed this dog hasn't been hit by a car yet.

Very hot and muggy as usual, but I am having to re-acclimate to the conditions after spending a week of vacation in cooler temperatures up north and in the mountains. I was totally fried last night after my return to bike commuting in 90+ temps. The weather is supposed to remain hot and humid all week so I might as well get used to it.

It was my 2nd ever commute. I got to work alive and I got home alive so it's an excellent commute in my book. A motorist honked at me just for being on a fairly busy 2-lane street at a red light. He turned around to look at me through his sunglasses after he switched to the other lane to pass me. Seems par for the course in cyclist-ignorant motorist interactions, but I was still in a good mood when I arrived at the office. Nothing like a good adrenaline rush to start the day!

75 F when I left the house, might have been 82-ish when I arrived at the office about 1.5 hrs later. About 88 F when I left the office.

I enjoy taking the scenic route in the morning and taking the alternate route in the evening to avoid all the tourists, joggers, walkers, etc. that are attracted by the scenery of the scenic route. No crazy motorist behavior on the way back - one car that was parked suddenly started entering my bike lane without signaling but this also seems to be typical. I just went around it and sprinted away, using a fortunately placed decline to help me accelerate.

Got home alive, burned almost 600 calories, saved money on subway fare - it was a good evening commute.

Rainy season here, meaning it's basically been raining everyday for over a week straight, and might continue for another week. However, yesterday morning it wasn't raining in the morning (yet), so I threw the seatpost fender from hybrid on my road bike and made it to work just as it started raining; it then rained on and off all day until about 5-10 minutes before I left.

This morning I decided to ride as it wasn't raining yet, and again it's been raining lightly on and off all day, hoping the it's off or very light rain to go home because I don't like getting soaked (will take train home if it's pouring) especially since I didn't put on the fender.

It was a very nice uneventful commute this am. No rain as of yet today, though it is on the way.

Congrats! It sounds like you are getting it figured out. Yes, you will have drivers honk, give looks, yell, turn unexpectedly, etc. Just be as safe and visible as you can.

I saw a little corgi dog up ahead on the side of the road. He saw me and started running in the same direction I was going but about 30 yards ahead. Then he got tired and went off the road again. I passed and he started giving chase. He seemed to be smiling the whole time. A car trying to pass honked so the dog would get out of the road. The driver slowed beside me and said, "That dog likes you!" I said, "I guess so!" and waved as he pulled away.

Ride home yesterday sucked. Started pouring rain about mid day and didn't let up until about 6p. I watched the radar and was able to wait for the tail end of the really heavy stuff. Flash flood warnings in effect until tomorrow - I took my mulligan and drove today

Yeah. I'm two hours west of Indy. The same storm kept me off the bike yesterday because it was about 90% certain that the front edge was going to hit at the exact time I usually leave to go home. It did too.

I rode today though. Even though odds are I will get wet on the ride home.

You're a better man than I. Weather rarely keeps me off the bike even in winter, but this constant wet and cooler temps just sucks!

I was on vacation last week, and several activities that have required a car this week, so commuting has been rather limited lately. I did commute on Monday and nearly came face to face with a tornado on the way home. I kept an eye on the forecast, but guess I should have watched the radar more closely. I had a great tail-wind and still thought I could be the storm home, but came up about 2-miles short. Suddenly the wind turned from a nice tail-wind to a ferocious head-wind and I could see a wall of water headed my way just up the road. I was close to a bridge that offered below-grade shelter and decided I should probably head there. I just made it under the bridge before all hell broke loose. Crazy wind with an unbelievable amount of rain coming from the sky. However, I was dry and protected from the wind... so all was good. My wife wanted to come get me, but I told her I was fine and I'd wait out the storm where I was. She finally came to pick me up about 45-minutes later after the wind and lightening died down a bit. Found out later a tornado was spotted very close to my location. Yikes! The low-quality picture is me under my bridge 'storm shelter'.


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