What do you wish existed for your commute?

[jsdilks]

Observations from my short time commuting:
1. more bikers who follow the Rules of the Road and don't put themselves or others in danger and give the rest of us a bad name
2. bikers with manners (a theme here??)
3. a way to shave some time off the time I spend in the small locker room where I go to shower and dress for the day - I've been trying and I just can't get any minutes off there (unload the bag, arrange things, get to the shower, take my shower, dry off, get dressed, dry my hair, put on my face [which is only moisturizer and eye stuff...])
4. an easy steamer to take wrinkles out of my clothes that have been smashed into my bag
5. a way to get lunch to work too - right now it's clothes or food, but not both. The panniers are crammed to the gills since there are two of us.

I've enjoyed reading through all your thoughts - great ideas, and some, well, other ones...

[TahoeDirtGirl]

I would like that glass blower too. What is with all the glass? And when I ride on a certain road, I hear this tinging noise from hitting something metal, but I never see what I've hit?!

I think I'm investing in a GPS (Garmin Nuvi) so I don't have to figure out what routes to take anymore. There are times I want to go to Target which is way out of the way, and I would do it but not sure how to get there. Being new to the area, I don't know the back roads that well. And getting lost on a bike is not really the way I want to learn them

[Becky]

Observations from my short time commuting:
1. more bikers who follow the Rules of the Road and don't put themselves or others in danger and give the rest of us a bad name
2. bikers with manners (a theme here??)
4. an easy steamer to take wrinkles out of my clothes that have been smashed into my bag

Agreed on 1 and 2! As for 4, here's what I do. To start, I pack my clothes in one of those Eagle Creek Pack-It folders- it makes a huge difference in how wrinkled stuff gets in panniers. When I get to work, I mist my clothes lightly with a plant mister or spray bottle, and hang them in front of a fan to dry. The water relaxes the fabric so the wrinkles fall out, and the fan speeds up the drying. Probably wouldn't work for super-wrinkly stuff or things like linen or some cottons, but for most cottons, blends, etc., it works great.