Going for it this weekend :)

[Catrin]

After a mammoth neighborhood-centered (multiple neighborhoods) sewer project forced me to re-think my original commuting route, I finally have a couple to test. I really do not want to take the same route home that I will take in the morning, so I've two routes to check out.

Weather permitting I am determined to check it out this weekend. It would be nice to have company on my very first experience with urban riding but that isn't going to stop me It will also be my longest ride since my trail injury in October, but since I plan to have lunch, or a snack, or something before I head home from downtown I think it will be fine. A couple of the neighborhoods I will ride through are a bit...sketchy - but I WILL be on my bike

I probably won't have time to get my rack problem worked out, so I think I will just put my cable lock in my Camelbak. It is a bit heavy - but not as heavy as the U-lock I have - and I am not about to take THAT with me

So wish me luck and good weather for this test. I am nervous about it, guess I am just too accustomed to my empty country roads...I've posted about this to my cycling list on FB to see if anyone has time or interest to join me, but I would imagine most already have plans.

[redrhodie]

Good luck! You can do it!

I fit my lock under my saddle, over my saddle bag, looped through the saddle rails. It was an epiphany when I figured it out. I guess it fitting depends on the size of your stuff, but it's a great place to carry it if it fits. Not in the way at all.

[mandiam]

Let us know how it goes---will be thinking of you!!! Get some mace to carry with you for the sketchies They have ones that connect to your top tube!

[Roadtrip]

I wish I could ride to work. All of my routes are WAY too contested for me to feel safe on. I hope your recon this weekend is rewarding!!!

Shannon

[Catrin]

I wish I could ride to work. All of my routes are WAY too contested for me to feel safe on. I hope your recon this weekend is rewarding!!!

Shannon

Weather was icky yesterday, so went to a long spin class instead at my gym...after which I learned that apparently my neck will endure everything but Schwin spin bikes - it got all inflamed and cranky - so am taking today off as well. *#$%@&$($&)$&%(#)T(#(% and it is supposed to rain much of the next 5 days - so it looks like next Saturday will be my next chance to try it out.

I WILL try it next Saturday morning - and that is the day of the Mini here in Indianapolis, so I can ride downtown early - watch the marathon racers and walkers start off, have a little food, and eventually return home.

It is beginning to feel like Indiana is the only place with rain and cooler temps lately - though I know that isn't so. I rode far more in March than April - but I am pretty sure that last April was just as frustrating, weather wise. I AM proud of myself that I listened to my neck today - and it isn't that bad but I've not felt this for several months. Better take a day now so I can ride later this week.

[hebe]

Well done for looking after your neck. I feel your pain with the weather - I was doing 20 miles/week in March, but have only just cleared that in total for April. I feel awful for not doing the nursery run, but a trailer in 20mph winds and rain on a potholed road is not fun at all. Fingers crossed that we'll see the sun again soon.

Redrhodie - that's a fantastic tip about carrying a lock - thank you!

[laura*]

I will just put my cable lock in my Camelbak.

A cable lock? Just wrap it around your handlebars on each side of the stem. Or around your seatpost. Or actually just about anywhere.