Tales from today's commute....

[Andrew_P]

Had a bus really close pass me at speed caught up with him, by his calm ignoring me reaction defintely deliberate, he then took a second swipe at me crossing in to the cycle lane. It is the first time I would have liked to have had a camera in 2 years of commuting never thought I would have uttered those words. Wasn't calm enough to get the reg number either not that it would have been any good.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Caught a roadie up again tonight, think I surprised him how quick I caught him. Rode with him for a mile or so and had a good natter before our routes took us different ways. Another dry and sunny commute, stopped and took the jacket off after the first few miles

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Nice ride both ways today - nothing could take the smile off my face anyway, biggest commuting week of the year so far at 244.58 miles I'd beat my previous PB of 206 miles by the time i'd got into work this morning so each mile home was just setting the bar for coming weeks.

 

[subaqua]

another blisteringly fast commute home 25 minutes without trying hard. 35.4 max speed am liking this commuting by road bike in the dry.

 

[jarlrmai]

The wind here is not letting up, I am exhausted.

It follows the same pattern each day, a medium head wind on the way in then it moves to become a strong crosswind on the way home especially when I get on the exposed higher up part of my commute I'm pretty much leaning over into it to stay upright.

 

[HLaB]

Another uneventful ride home for me tonight. A walk to the pub with colleagues, two slow pints and a dash back to the flat before it got dark (I forgot my front light )

 

[Nigeyy]

Pretty brisk weather made for an enjoyable ride home. Saw a rather large coyote in the woods ambling along the path, eventually it turned off. Went by where beavers have felled about 15-20 good size trees and they've made a dam.

 

[potsy]

Saw a bit of 'raod rage' on the way in, guy had got out of his car to have a word with the driver behind, don't know what it was about as it must have happened before I turned the corner.

Left work at 1.30am to see my colleagues scraping the windscreens
Thought it was summer?

 

[Nortones2]

Pretty brisk weather made for an enjoyable ride home. Saw a rather large coyote in the woods ambling along the path, eventually it turned off. Went by where beavers have felled about 15-20 good size trees and they've made a dam.

Coyotes? Massachusetts? Really? Bill Bryson never said there were coyotes in the woods

 

[paul04]

Very quiet on the roads this morning, only seen a few cars, was a bit cold, but soon warmed up.

 

[Nigeyy]

Loads around here -a bit like urban foxes. A couple of months ago a neighbour's cat was taken by a coyote -they'll attack and eat any other smaller animal. Now and again, you'll hear on the news of small dogs being attacked whilst walking with their owners. I'm still trying to see a beaver though -see loads of signs for them but never actually see them.

Not in any order, but I've seen in New England:

coyotes
skunks (we had a baby one in the back garden, it was really cute believe it or not -just didn't get close to it!)
possums
chimpmunks
squirrels
deer
moose (ok, while up in Maine, but still New England)
black bear
raccoon

Coyotes? Massachusetts? Really? Bill Bryson never said there were coyotes in the woods

 

[Nortones2]

I had this strange, mistaken idea coyotes were plains animals. Quite a variety you have there. You can keep the skunks! We can do squirrels. And pheasants. Used to have wallabies nearby. Occasionally sheep invade gardens when the weather gets really bad. Quite savage when thwarted I believe Sister lived in Mountain Home, Idaho for a while: quite put out by roaming Lynx (mountain lion?) but it could have been the Chardonnay.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I disassembled, cleaned, greased and reassembled the bottom bracket and rear hub/freehub body/cassette on my commuting bike (the Vivente tourer) on the weekend, then discovered this morning that when I tried to wheel the bike down the hallway to the front door, the rear wheel wouldn't turn properly and the rear hub bearings were making a loud rattling noise, as if they had seized up . I did take the bike for a short test ride just after the servicing, but didn't notice any problems then. So I had to put the tourer away and get out the road bike for commuting to work. On the bright side, the road bike (on which I recently put 25mm tyres) is noticeably faster than the tourer, so my commuting time was fairly good .

Now I just have to do something about the tourer's rear hub. I had noticed a bit of wear in the bearing race (i.e. the hollow bit in which the bearings roll), so it's possible that I need a new rear hub and may be doing a bit more commuting on the road bike until this is sorted out . I'm looking forward to seeing how the road bike handles the climbing on my way home - my commute home is 33.5km with approx. average 625m climbing, so the road bike has the advantage over the tourer, there .

 

[Shut Up Legs]

The road bike makes my commuting times well below average, and it's easy!
I fixed the rear hub issue just now after I got home from work, so the tourer's all good for tomorrow's commute, which is good, because as much as I enjoyed using the road bike for today's commute, the tourer is far better suited to the rough roads, broken glass, bumps, etc. of the daily commutes, and also a bit more comfortable.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

After 3 days if holiday, no bike for 5 days legs felt great today, and good weather !