How Was Your Commute Today?

[Fredwina]

I couldn't figure how to stuff 2lbs of Danish butter cookies in my panniers. so I opted to pass today. Plus I wanted to see how dark it is now in the morning

[pfunk12]

I couldn't figure how to stuff 2lbs of Danish butter cookies in my panniers. so I opted to pass today. Plus I wanted to see how dark it is now in the morning

Okay, Fredwina...why are you stuffing 2 lbs of Danish butter cookies in your panniers?

[divingbiker]

Ok, commuters, I have a question about rain pants. I wore a pair for the first time today, and I didn't like them at all. They kept me dry, and I wasn't hot, but they pulled at my knees so much that my legs started to hurt.

The ones I have are the cheapest that REI sells, so maybe that's the problem. I just feel like they need to have a bit of give in the knees.

Does anyone have rain pants that are comfortable? Guess I'll go window shopping at TE.

[divingbiker]

Ok, commuters, I have a question about rain pants. I wore a pair for the first time today, and I didn't like them at all. They kept me dry, and I wasn't hot, but they pulled at my knees so much that my legs started to hurt.

The ones I have are the cheapest that REI sells, so maybe that's the problem. I just feel like they need to have a bit of give in the knees.

Does anyone have rain pants that are comfortable? Guess I'll go window shopping at TE.

I'm going to move this to its own thread so I don't hijack this one. Sorry.

[ginny]

I totally ate it around an icy corner this morning. I stopped traffic and everything. How is it that I made it all winter without really wiping out, and here I was going SUPER slowly and just going straight over this ice and I ate it hard. I also managed to wipe out hard off my skateboard last night. I'm not sure my right hip will ever be the same. Poor me!

[pfunk12]

I totally ate it around an icy corner this morning. I stopped traffic and everything. How is it that I made it all winter without really wiping out, and here I was going SUPER slowly and just going straight over this ice and I ate it hard. I also managed to wipe out hard off my skateboard last night. I'm not sure my right hip will ever be the same. Poor me!

Hope you're okay, ginny!

[7rider]

Bummer. Feel better, Ginny.

This a.m., with the change of the clocks - it's back to full-on headlights for the ride in. Heading down the Parkway this a.m., i saw something HUGELY bright coming towards me (and this was after sun-up, so I turned down my own light to "low"). It was a guy on a bike (never saw him before) with an incredibly bright light on his handlebars and a second, almost equally bright light on his helmet! He gave a wave as he went by. I dinged my bell. It was like watching a flying saucer pass by me....very surreal.

But, other than that....normal ride in (thankfully). Snow on my cursed sidewalk is completely gone, leaving behind enough sand to qualify the sidewalk as "a dirt road" and the bamboo has been completely cleaned up from the MUT. Yay.

[Fredwina]

Okay, Fredwina...why are you stuffing 2 lbs of Danish butter cookies in your panniers?

I went and did the Solvang century (ok, I attempted to a century at Solvang, I wound with 75 before packing it due to the winds)
Solvang is a danish theme-ed town.I bought the cookies there (http://olsensdanishvillagebakery.com/) to bribe my co-workers with I think they last all of 15 minutes. I was supposed to bring some Æbelskivers back too, but that didn't work out.