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yellow

03-19-2006, 05:06 PM

...I thought I'd repost this link (http://www.sunrisesunset.com/)for making your own (customized by location) sunrise and sunset calendars. I tape these to my wall in the spring and summer. Enjoy!

(I just printed out April and May... :p )

maillotpois

03-19-2006, 05:23 PM

Lovely! I was a little tacken aback by that huge bright yellow thing in the sky during my ride today... nice change!

allabouteva

03-19-2006, 05:55 PM

maillotpois

03-19-2006, 06:10 PM

The cycling season never stops in Northern CA. We just get wet and grumpy! :D

wabisabi

03-19-2006, 06:21 PM

As a number of us have pointed out, it certainly was wonderful in No.California today. It has been a VERY rainy season, so many of us have been grumpier than usual! Sometimes it is just too wet and stormy here to ride. I have been getting tired of spinning classes, that's for sure. We even had a hailstorm last week-almost unheard of on the coast. Today was cool and very windy, but sunny and really clear. I had wind from the north when riding north, and from the south when riding south--go figure, but I am definitely not complaining. Tonight I have that nice tired feeling!

Lise

03-19-2006, 07:01 PM

For you northern hemispherers,

We don't get snow down here, and can pretty much cycle all year round.... :p Although it does get extremely hot in summer, and in winter the days do get very short.

So when does the cycling season start for you folks?
Hi, Eva,

Some cycle in Chicago all year long. For me, it starts when the temps are reliably in the 40s-50s F, usually April. It can't come soon enough. They're talking about more snow this week...grrr...I know, it happens every year, but I don't have to LIKE it!

SadieKate

03-19-2006, 08:16 PM

Yellow, good idea! I was trying to figure out today how late I could ride. This would have solved the whole thing.

We just get wet and grumpy! :DSo true, so true! Glorious days here this weekend if you find 15 mph winds with gusts to 25. It's the gusting part that's miserable. It's like Mother Nature ate too many beans.

jobob

03-19-2006, 09:00 PM

On my club ride yesterday we were talking about the upcoming change to Daylight Saving Time and someone mentioned that the dates its in effect are going to be different in 2007.

I had no clue, so I checked Google, and looks like it's true:
from http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
[...]
On August 8, 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This Act changed the time change dates for Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Beginning in 2007, DST will begin on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.

And in case anyone was wondering,

For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Arizona, and most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of Indiana. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.

That has to be confusing !

Running Mommy

03-19-2006, 09:03 PM

Ok, so we go from wet and rainy to 90 degrees in a week?! YIPES!! But just MY kind of weather!! Going to take the boy mtn biking and hope the snakes are still in hibernation... Nanci I am NOT! :p

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/85338?from=36hr_topnav_business

Can't wait to put on the sleevless jersey and RIDE this week!!! :D Ohh yeah... I'm SUPPOSE to be tapering... sigh... back to bracelet making...:o

im4smiley

03-20-2006, 03:17 AM

DeniseGoldberg

03-20-2006, 04:42 AM

Here in Massachusetts this past weekend was too cold for me to ride. I am a wimp. It was low 30's and there was blustery wind. But Spring is here today so hopefully some nice warm Spring weather will follow!

Karen
Well, we had the same cold & wind in the eastern part of the state that you did in western Massachusetts. But my bikes insisted on riding...

Seriously, I did get out for short rides both weekend days. It felt good, in spite of the cold - and luckily for me I've trained myself (from both a mental standpoint & from knowing the right layers to wear) to be able to ride in temperatures down to 20. This is the first year for that - before my absolute low riding temp was 30. OK, OK, I know I'm a bit of a nut...

Here's hoping that relative warmth follows today's "first day of spring" on the calendar fairly quickly!

--- Denise

DrBee

03-20-2006, 05:22 AM

rain, rain, go away.... come again another day (well - for my garden)...

We had a week in the 80's and now we're back in the 50's for highs and 30's for lows for the forseeable future. Mother nature is such a tease.

uk elephant

03-20-2006, 05:28 AM

I have always been against daylight savings time in spring. I don't appreciate loosing an hour of sleep! Fall is nice when I get to sleep an hour longer....I'd keep that one.

But then I had a look at that sunrise/sunset calendar for London and suddenly, next week sunset will be around 7:30pm! That means I can go for a ride after work and it will still be light outside! :D I've changed my mind about daylight savings. Maybe we could even shift it two hours? I'm useless in the mornings anyway. Daylight is wasted on me before 10am.

As for when riding season starts here.....I ride year round, or at least used to in Illinois and Norway. I've only had a bike here since the end of Januar, but have kept riding every week and the weather will only get nicer. Winter I can deal with. We'll see how I do in the summer when it goes above 20C. I may have to wait until fall....

allabouteva

03-20-2006, 02:08 PM

I was in Beijing in January. Now THAT's a cycle city. I think my tour guide said 9 million bikes in Beijing. The temperature was -1 to -5 degrees C. which is what about high 20s and low 30s, and I saw tons of cyclists... I think for many residents of Beijing that's their main transport and they don't have much choice.

Running Mommy

03-20-2006, 02:19 PM

Thats what my friends in CA call it in the fall when suddenly they lose sunlight. But here in AZ we don't play the game- and I LOVE it! Ya see the way we see it, the last thing we need in summer is ANOTHER hour of sunlight...:D
Plus Arizonan's tend to be rebels just by nature...:p

SnappyPix

03-20-2006, 08:41 PM

It's the end of daylight saving here :( - our clocks went back an hour on Sunday, and the days are getting a little cooler.
I don't want summer to EVER end!
But on the bright side, I've been in shorts pretty much all the time for the past 10 months - and definitely shorts on the bike - so not complaining!

SadieKate

03-21-2006, 08:55 AM

OK, your turn for a noogie.:) :)

Lifesgreat

03-21-2006, 09:03 AM

CorsairMac

03-21-2006, 09:36 AM

Actually - Indiana passed the vote last year. They will now be changing times also which leave AZ and Hawaii as they only 2 states left that don't change times.

yellow

03-21-2006, 11:35 AM

Yellow,

Where is this sun you speak of?????? :p
I hear it was spotted in Cali over the weekend and is expected to make a unique Utah appearance on Thursday or Friday! :D

AuntieK

03-21-2006, 01:52 PM

I think we should celebrate the sun's arrival with a celebratory bike ride! :D
Maybe if we show it how much we're enjoying it, it will stay around longer. :rolleyes:

yellow

03-21-2006, 05:09 PM

I think we should celebrate the sun's arrival with a celebratory bike ride! :D
If it's as warm as it's supposed to be on Sat, I hope to go do the Wasatch Women's ride. But I'm confused on where they meet...Golsan or Revolution? I thought it was Revolution but their not-up-to-date website says Golsan. I'll try to sleuth it out by Sat am.

'Kay, back to the sunrise/sunset topic...