How Was Your Commute Today?

[7rider]

I love that we've already made up 2 stories to explain the flowers on the road. That's one of the things I love about biking, even more so with walking, is making up stories to explain things.

Yeah, but I still can't come with a good story to explain the big pile of sweet potatoes I one time saw on a ride!

[redrhodie]

Yeah, but I still can't come with a good story to explain the big pile of sweet potatoes I one time saw on a ride!

A body was hidden in a sweet potato delivery truck, and the killer had to dig to find it because his unique lapel pin was stuck in the corpse's hand.

Okay, I stole that from Hitchcock.

[Eden]

I saw owl porn and pretty much got dusted by a unicycle on my commute this evening... yes it was a surreal sort of day....

[kweber]

I bought my first road bike a few months ago and use usually on the weekends, but I commuted for the second time today to work. I feel great and am able to get in 1.5 hr of exercise I wouldn't have got normally. No stops or problems today whereas the first commute last week my chain fell off twice.

[Melalvai]

I bought my first road bike a few months ago and use usually on the weekends, but I commuted for the second time today to work. I feel great and am able to get in 1.5 hr of exercise I wouldn't have got normally. No stops or problems today whereas the first commute last week my chain fell off twice.

Fantastic! I hope you have many chain-problem-free commutes.

[tzvia]

Been having the most massive allergic nightmare - Don't know what it was that caused it, but I have been unable to breathe through my nose since last Friday. So I was off the bike all week till today, as I am finally starting to breathe with my mouth closed again. Had to break down and use a nasal spray (hate those things, so addicting) because I could not sleep. It felt so good to be back on the bike, and it wasn't really cold or windy this morning either. It rained a bit earlier this week so the air felt clean and crisp. Can't wait for tomorrows MTB ride.

Been seeing more people commuting by bike than I've been seeing before. Older people on comfort bikes and cruisers, others on old steel MTBs. Two years ago it seemed like I was the only one on a bike who was not a kid. And for the first time, when I got to work and stopped at the guard station to dig out my badge this morning, another employee rolled up on his bike. Never saw another rider at the gate before.

[7rider]

Okay. More bizarro sightings on the ride today, and I am at a loss to come up with a story for this.

Today was Adidas Slide Day.

This morning, I ride down the sidewalk and turn left onto the road out of my neighborhood, per usual. On the sidewalk off to my right was a pair of these black and white Adidas slides. They are distinctive for their 3 broad white stripes. Huh. I ponder, as I ride by. I briefly wonder if I should pick them up, wash them and donate them to Good Will (since they were a pair, after all).

Fast forward to the end of the work day. I'm five miles away, in the heart of the city where I work, crossing a street with the light on my ride home. There, in the middle of the intersection is another pair (a pair!) of Adidas slides. What the heck????

Alas..got side tracked on my ride when I got close to the spot of the first pair, so I didn't see if they were still there. Oh well.

[Melalvai]

Okay. More bizarro sightings on the ride today, and I am at a loss to come up with a story for this.

Today was Adidas Slide Day.

This morning, I ride down the sidewalk and turn left onto the road out of my neighborhood, per usual. On the sidewalk off to my right was a pair of these black and white Adidas slides. They are distinctive for their 3 broad white stripes. Huh. I ponder, as I ride by. I briefly wonder if I should pick them up, wash them and donate them to Good Will (since they were a pair, after all).

Fast forward to the end of the work day. I'm five miles away, in the heart of the city where I work, crossing a street with the light on my ride home. There, in the middle of the intersection is another pair (a pair!) of Adidas slides. What the heck????

Alas..got side tracked on my ride when I got close to the spot of the first pair, so I didn't see if they were still there. Oh well.

That's an easy one. There was only one pair. They walked.