I tend to have a fast day after a hard ride and a day off, too :-)

Cruised in slowly because I successfully changed TWO TIRES last night all by myself int he living room. Front one had a flat (that other downside of bike paths- glass and debris!) which at least had been a slow leak, and the back one... oh, fear and trepidation, the tire was dinged up and I have never put a new *tire* on this wheel, much less a "folding" tire that looks all flat and spread out like there's just no way it's gong to make itself into a tire shape! Will it be the nice easy job that the previous wheel was?
My fears were assuaged when I went to remove the existing tire (not folding), and had to squeeze around to get that little "lip" away from the rim. Aha! That's why even on a hybrid these things say I can inflate to 120 lbs.
LESSON LEARNED: During the first part of getting that tire around the rim, don't use up your thumbs. Wrists will do for the easy part, then you won't wear as much skin off your thumbs doing the last stretch. I'll know that next time I was following the directions in "Anybody's Bike Book," which instructed me to persevere and to only throw wrenches, not the tire, and that I should go have a beer once I was done, before I inflated the tire. Good thing there was a beer in the fridge or I couldn't have finished, eh?
My thumbs are sore but oh, that new tire looks nice!
And... they're BAAAACK!!!!! Maybe it was just faculty/staff, but this college town is getting back to "in season" traffic. Many more people-units out there...