I'm enjoying everyone's ride summaries.

Tuesday: one way commute after being dropped off in the morning... uh-oh, the annoying tap, tap, tap-tap....tap... tap was back. The first two trips to the bike shop hadn't fixed it. No sound when I was standing in the pedals and they agreed the seat might be involved and replaced the Ruby saddle with an Oura. This actually made me happy because the Ruby was little too minimal for me... but didn't solve the problem apparently.
So Thursday, just 4 miles round trip to another bike shop- for a "second opinion". Nothing definite, maybe the saddle/seat post.... but they said just take it back to the shop that sold it to me. Feeling like a pest, but frustrated, I called and they said bring it in. More messing around and lubing the seat post and rails....

Today- finally a real ride... and YES! the noise is gone!! 45 miles out to Colossal Cave Rd/ Pistol Hill east of Tucson and no problems. Except that the wind was from the west the whole day and that meant a head wind most of the way back. At least it was in the 15 mph range and not the 20-30 mph range (with gusts to 40) that blew through here on Friday. Temps were very pleasant.