How Was Your Commute Today?

[malkin]

Today's commute was great both ways!
Pretty much just misery between the rides though.

Where is that resume...

[blackhillsbiker]

Today's commute was great both ways!
Pretty much just misery between the rides though.

Where is that resume...

Ditto. Amen!

[JennK13]

Riding in was great - around 65 degrees, beautiful and clear Colorado skies.
And after my glowing report about how Denver is great about bikes, on my way home, on a street with a bike lane, in front of a "Share the Road" sign, some jerk yells out his window (after he's past me, of course) "You're not a car"! I yelled back "And you're not nice!" Of course he was too far away to hear.
Now there are some streets I refuse to drive on at any time of day, some I won't drive on during "rush hours", and some I can ride at any time. This was an any time street, one I ride almost every day I commute. It's a 30 mph speed limit, and almost all down hill from the highway - I routinely reach 25-30 mph on this particular stretch of road, and since it was rush hour, vehicle traffic was only moving at about 25. It's a two lane street, and I'm in the bike lane except at intersections where I move over into the line of stopped traffic (at my place in line - I don't race by the cars to the front) so cars turning right can go into the right turn only lane without worry, when the light turns green, I start going with traffic and move back into the bike lane when it appears again on the other side of the intersection - I am ALWAYS going the speed of traffic (or faster in the bike lane) because it IS rush hour and the cars can only go so fast.
There is one place I have to make a left turn - there is one lane going straight and two left turn lanes. I was coming up to the intersection, the light was red, so cars were slowing; the car behind me was WAY behind me not giving any indication to pass me since the traffic ahead was stopped. So I signaled and took my place in the left turn lane. The lanes are kind of long before the intersection, and as I started up the lane, the signal turned green so the cars going straight started going. I am NOWHERE in the through traffic lane, and since there are two left turn lanes, I'm not hindering any traffic behind me - the other cars just went into the far left turn lane. As I got to the intersection, it was clear (it's not a protected left so you can go any time if clear), so I proceeded to turn left with the cars in the other turn lane also going. The "yell" came from some jerkwad going STRAIGHT! I was nowhere near him, nor was I slowing traffic down. In fact, since the majority of the cars were going straight and only had one lane, me and my bike along with the other left turning vehicles were all going faster than then through traffic. Maybe he was ticked that I was passing him on a bike while he sat in traffic. Not like I wasn't in that same taffic all the way up to that intersection. Just a total hater!

[HillSlugger]

Today was my first bike commute since my crash back on August 5th. I can't believe how much morning light we lost over these weeks! I had to break out the lights again

Uneventful rides each way but I had little zip in my legs and the ride home was possibly my slowest ever.

[Groundhog]

Today was my first bike commute since my crash back on August 5th. I can't believe how much morning light we lost over these weeks! I had to break out the lights again

Uneventful rides each way but I had little zip in my legs and the ride home was possibly my slowest ever.

That's great that you're back riding! And you cant possibly be slower than I am. But I'm sure you'll be back up to your speed in no time!