The commute in this morning was uneventful, though the weather here is very humid with mist and fog.

After rains last night we had humidity driven fog this morning. It cleared up about halfway through my ride.

First day of school for much of the area. I noticed more traffic, but nothing too bad.

Good weather and quick short commutes this morning. Made great time on home side, driven by a late start, and my legs wanted to spin hard on work side as well. Plan on doing long commute on work and on home side tonight, if I can push to 125 for the week I'll hit 1000 for the year (I started tracking in March, didn't ride a whole lot before then).

Lower 50's temps, light winds and blue sky (once the sun came up) made for an awesome commute this morning.

Last Friday I stopped by the downtown KC airport to watch the Blue Angels run through their practice performance before the weekend airshow.


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Great pic! Brrrr day 3, mid 50's

The Greenway was flooded, by several feet over the banks, so I veered off into my high-traffic alternate route. Normally I don't mind but I built this over the weekend and I didn't really plan on making the first shake-down ride in traffic.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=472887 Stealth mode activated. :lol: Just kidding; I'm going to put some reflective tape on the sides. But I'll need to make some adjustments as it's very difficult to ride as it is.

Felt like I was moving a little slow this morning; it seemed like the wind was in my face the whole way. But, all in all, I still arrived here within my normal commute time. So...no loss.

Didn't ride in today, though I had planned to. My "work wife" asked me last night if I could help her jumpstart her car today, which she left at her boyfriends house (who is away) and got a ride back to her house last night. Apparently, the boyfriends moms car didn't have enough juice to jump her car, or her cables were bad. Conversely, she rode her bike to work for the first time ever! We got her car working, moved it over to her house, so I think I will ride home with her this afternoon and then back to work/my car. I also have to run to the supermarket this afternoon, so I think that will be a bike ride.

Still hurt and caging it

commuted today after wreck friday
 

a bunch more traffic this morning because school started too. gone are the quiet less stress rides.

hope you feel better! Hurting a little myself because I wrecked on the way in on Friday, but I did see this that same morning so it makes it better... http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=472973

Great temperatures this morning and I think I even spotted another commuter on the way in.

It was a very pleasant, cool ride in this morning. I took the fixed gear - even with a backpack, it's fine to ride in and gives me some variation. The hilly climbing ride home is a bit more challenging.

My riding buddy didn't want to ride in the increasing darkness and asked if we could delay by 15 minutes. I declined - better be used to having no light, as winter's coming anyhow. That was my thinking...

70F temp
67% humidity
59F dew point
Big drop in humidity and dew point made for a nice morning ride.

Left a bit early and added a couple of miles. Got caught behind a school bus before getting out of my neighborhood though. A couple of stops plus a stop for a bus going in the opposite direction made for a slow first mile.

Got an early start, so took it super easy on home side, work side I made up for it.

I'm thinking about doing a full week of 22 mile commutes (2+2+16+2), yesterday was the first. Maybe I'll even convince myself to do a reverse commute one of these days, for a total of 36 miles, but that'd require a late arrival at work or an extremely early start - and the girlfriend already feels like I'm not home enough (she's right). Really looking forward to late '16 when the MUP that runs behind the house is complete across the lake - that'll greatly extend my commute-ability.

Good commute in today. Cool so I wore a lightweight hi vis safety jacket. Going through town there's an industrial area where I watched a coyote hunting mice in a freshly mowed weed field. Didn't pay much attention to me at all.

My ride in was decent. I left late, as I saw that traffic directly outside of my subdivision was not moving. I have no shoulder, so no way around it...I would just have to sit in it. Also had some brake rubbing problems. Hoping to find an adjustable wrench today (rumor has it there is one in the office) and give my brakes cable a little more slack. I pulled off to mess with the position of the wheel to no avail. I switched my saddle from a B17 Narrow to Cambium, as I have matching bar tape to put on it and my CDale still has excellent tape, also because if it rains on me I won't worry about the Cambium and presumable would worry about my B17. By the time I got out of my subdivision I had it dialed in and it was a very comfortable ride.

Sorry, couldn't resist
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Thanks... today was my first bike commute since the wreck, two weeks ago. I am not yet up to MTBing so I took in the road bike. Feeling ok, still taking Aleve for the pain on deep breath.

Second flat in a week coming home yesterday. Beautiful day so I didn't really care. I actually patched the tube! Usually I just replace it. Cool ride coming in this morning felt wonderful. Had to search a bit for some cool weather gloves. Been awhile since I've needed them.

Great ride to work this morning. The weather forecasters were talking about the high humidity but it didn't feel bad to me and I didn't sweat as much as usual. After I got to work, I checked the NWS website, and the dewpoint dropped dramatically right about the time I left for work, which is unusual. It went from 71 to 64 within about 30 minutes. Apparently a front passed by.

Should be a very pleasant ride home. Yesterday was another story, and fortunately I had to drive. We had a humungous thunderstorm in mid to late afternoon with high winds and flooding rains. We've had a lot of storms like this lately, and it's made me very reluctant to ride on days when forecasters are calling for afternoon thunderstorms.

I saw dark clouds last night as I left work and decided to skip the long ride and go for the get home before it pours ride. I average 17.5mph over 11 miles and surprised my wife and family being home so early haha

It another good ride in this morning. I actually rode 18 on the way. I am not really sure how I got so many. I was just enjoying the ride.
cooler too wish the humidity would go down some though. I can not stand foggy glasses.

I am glad to hear you are well enough to bike in. Keep getting better and I'm sorry to hear about the wreck.

Jeez, I'm not angling for sympathy from you, of all people! Keep working on getting recovered.

I only give sympathy where deserved. I'm getting better, thanks.

I just went for a roll and was looking at new bikes. I stopped by a little shop up the road and was checking out the All City Space Horse and Macho Man disc. I like the Macho Man and the idea of discs are appealing to me.

I'm still curious how the LHT fared. I think my wife will make me get a lead filled steel frame to keep me from trying to go fast on major roads.

Cooler temperature this morning. Nice ride.

So I got ran off the road today by a pack of cyclists on my commute home tonight. I was coming up to a fairly busy stop sign controlled intersection intending on turning left (after stopping at the stop sign of course...). I look back and a pack of about 40 roadies were coming up behind me so I signal my intention to turn left and start to move over...THEY CAME AROUND ME ON MY LEFT ANYWAYS and proceeded to blast through the stop sign and headed right. I was forced to pull off the road to my right and come to a stop (certain expletives may have been uttered). If I had swung over to the left I would have taken out the whole pack.

I have been commuting on these roads for 10 years and have never had an interaction with a motorist and then I get blasted off the road by a bunch of aggro roadies? WTF? Its bad enough for cyclists to piss off motorists...but when cyclists start pissing off other cyclists using the road responsibly? Unfortunately it is cyclists like these guys who give cyclists a bad image and wreck it for those of us who try to behave on roads.

Oh yeah I live in Boulder Co. Colorado...go figure. Not all of us here are like these guys BTW.

A very nice uneventful commute this am. After taking the car again yesterday I am glad to be on the bike.

It was a bit cooler this morning. A good pre-dawn ride in and I feel good this morning. I am so enjoying riding versus driving a car. It's much less stressful and I arrive home more relaxed in the evening. My wife notices, too.

Craziness! Not sure if taking the lane would help in this situation.


Cooler here in NC this morning: 66F and low humidity/dew point. Nice!

I stopped for a sunrise pic. This was about 3 miles into my commute.
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