garysol1 

27 miles..out and back. Beautiful day. Mid 70's with a west wind. Lots of sun

Jose Perez

19 miles of commuting fun in the sun. Awesome day to be out on a bike, 20mph headwind be damned!

Scummer

29 mile commuting home today at a measly 16.1mph avg. This morning strong winds from the northwest had me in joy because I'm going south-south-east for my work-home commute and of course the wind direction had to change in the evening into a headwind

DougG

Sheesh - had to get the leg and arm warmers out again since the bottom fell out of the thermometer this morning (well, cold for June anyway). But I got in a good workout even if I couldn't quite manage to work up much of a sweat.

Anyway, it was a good prep for an event I'm doing this weekend in northern Michigan where we'll be starting out in the 40s in the mornings.

making

14 mile commute to work. Absolutely perfect. Could not ask for a better day or a nicer ride. Actually have had a pretty good day at work too. Something is going to happen.

garysol1 

10 miles of single track in the AM with my son

51 miles on the road bike in the evening

Scummer

29 miles Tuesday night crits
The wind sucked, once you were out of the draft it was over.

aham23

6/17 = YES

finally after setting sail and pretending to be the love boat captain i got back on the bike today. 13 or 14 days off just as i was about to peak..........such is life. manage 30 miles today around 17.5 mph pace. felt horrible as i tried to shake the vacation out of the legs. later.

garysol1 

Yup, At times I was HAMMERING to see 18mph.......it was painful.

Jose Perez

Took the "long way home" from
work, all 19 miles of it. Threw my chain and subsequently my rear dérailleur into my spokes about 1.5 miles in. took me 15 minutes to get everything bent back into shape and was very hesitant to go hard the rest of the way. Had friends over last night so no time to investigate the damage any further. Hope it wasn't too bad

making

I did have something funny happen about ten miles into my ride yesterday. A squirrel ran out in to the road about 10 yards or so infront of me. I swear it stopped, looked at me while I was slamming on the brakes. stood on his hind legs, looked like he pounded his chest, then ran back off the side of the road the way he came from about the time I was completely stopped. Remineded me of those commercials when the squirrles ran out in front of cars to get them to swerve.

CyLowe97

6/17 - yessir.

Tuesday Night Penny Road Ride. The usual 28.4 miles of drafting the fast two riders just to hang on. And we slowed down to a crawl at the stop signs.

One driver hollered at cyclpsycho to remember to stop at the bottom of Haeger's Bend. And there was even a B Hills police car in the lot at Penny Road when we got back giving us outlaw skinny pants wearing punks the stink-eye. Hey, we did pretty well, officer! It would have been nice if he had driven over and just said "hi" to us to see how things went out there. A little positive interaction goes a long way, IMO.

Cycling Jester

Tuesday night Penny Road ride. - 25.5 miles

patester242002

Rode 37.1 miles today. Dropoff in Yorkville. Rode around area for couple hours then rode back to Joliet. Took 126 to Ashley Rd. South to Walker Rd. East to Schlapp. South to Caton Farm. East back into Joliet. Hardly any traffic once out of Yorkville til I got back into Will County. Was in Lake Geneva area 1 day last week and rode around north of town. Nice scenery. Will have to ride on the White River Trail next time i'm up there.

nocondorfx

rode 50 miles today. Left my house in parma to meet with the Spin guys. Spotted the B group at mastick. Rode with them up to 130th and back to berea where I jetted off for the ride back home to parma.

aham23

6/18 = YES

back to back days after a ton of days off. me likes . 31 miles again today. legs felt better today, but still way to vacation'ie. that 15 mph NWN wind was a bit nasty also. there is just no place to hide from it out here in Will County when riding solo. later.

jbernaeyge

6-17 rode 12 miles on the mtb at racewaywoods
6-18 rode 20 miles on the road

garysol1 

29 miles out in the country. A little chilly but nice

SmokinMiles

30 miles at Fermi this morning...always windy there even if weather underground shows calm winds. ha

Planning to go back out tonight for an hour or so. Hubby is working late and daughter will be at movie. I can't resist. The weather is just too nice.

Crystal

SSIndyRider

Not sure about mileage, but about 35 minutes. My temporary steed in FL doesn't have a computer. It's well tested though. Did I mention it's light weight? This sucker cruises! It may not be a nice new carbon track bike, but it's acquainting me with single gear riding! The front basket is handy too, especially for carrying the laptop to find an internet connection.

DougG

I might write up more of a ride report later, but this was day 1 of a 3-day cycling event out of Rogers City, MI, which I'm sure nobody has ever heard of. Hey, it's only the home of the world's largest open-pit limestone quarry, but at least my 4 nights in the motel is costing me less than one night just 60 miles away in Mackinaw City!

Rode 60 miles today, which was 40 miles more than my longest ride so far this year. And not as flat. It started on a bike path for a few miles along Lake Huron:



The county roads are miles and miles of trees:



I'm sure these 10 miles of hills are nothing to you younger guys, but I thought they'd never end. Plus, I swear I rode up several hundred feet more than I ever came down, but still ended up where I had started:



Your truly (sorry, I was wearing my Saturn V jersey instead of the BF jersey that I also brought):




P.S. Yeah, my bike has a kickstand. Wanna make something of it? 68 tomorrow and I'm not sure what it is on Sunday.

garysol1 

Nice job Doug. Keep up the great pics and ride report!!

CyLowe97

6/21 - Oh yeah.

102 miles, 99.5 or so of which were with Rowdy and Psimet on a nice little route Psimet has put together. Got a bit wet around miles 55-60, but then the sun came out. I love being able to ride to the start of a group ride.

Newspaper's in the Sidis and they're drying on the porch.

Psimet2001 

+1

making

I feel like such a wuss. 20 miles, nice ride. pretty good though cnsidering 13 miles whupped my axx last year.