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I’ve found that I’m more likely to be late while driving and more likely to be early while riding for what it’s worth.

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I’ve had a good year and a half of solid service out of my Cygolite 750. It’s got three brightness levels, night flash, day flash, and S.O.S. Flash for extreme survival situations . Solid light, ridden in all kinds of rain, USB is a treat, no problems. Got it on close out for about $80.

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Cape Canaveral

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I only do it two days a week (29 mile round trip), but then I only work two days a week. I get shorter rides in between work days. Having only been back on a bike for a little over a year myself, I think it would be pretty hard doing it every day. It’s not the mileage so much as its all the hours in between rides. A work day is a long break between rides and going home is always harder for me, particularly since I’ve got a bunch of steep hills in the last two miles. It wipes me out every time. I’m much better at it now but it’s not really any easier. Doing 29 miles without the workday to split it up is amazingly easier.

I think you just build up to what you can reasonably do without killing yourself. It should be fun above all! Days off can make days on even more special.

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@cvcalhoun 119465 wrote:

It’s all my fault. The day can be perfect, but the moment I get on my bike, it rains. Twice lately, I walked outside in perfectly nice weather, and it started raining in the few seconds I was in the shed getting my bike.

Haha. I thought it was just me.

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Shelter from the storm at Grace church on Commonwealth last night. My ride home from DC started off so nice too. Though I enjoy riding through the rain, lately it’s becoming ridiculous.

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Flat on Jamieson Ave, Alexandria, on the way home Wednesday night around 10:30.

Repair unsuccessful due to ruptured spare tube. A patch would have done but alas I walked my steed the other 4.5 miles home in a pleasant midnight rain. Wouldn’t want to do it again bit it was enlightening!

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A couple more from the C&O/Harpers Ferry last Sunday.

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@mstone 118037 wrote:

fenders

Surely would have helped. We rode from Mouth of Monocacy to Harpers Ferry nice and dry then the storm cut loose. The ride back was moist. We jumped in the river at the end to clean off.

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The rain didn’t hold off on the C&O today,

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@Boomer2U 117935 wrote:

I bid $1, 2 bananas and a Cliff bar

I raise an entire case of gels!

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@Crickey7 117862 wrote:

It’s a pretty astonishing design choice, given that a lot of people, myself included, like putting on bar ends.

Agreed. A bit of a pain in the bum.

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@mstone 117850 wrote:

what does a bar end adapter do?

Trek’s Isozone bar won’t allow you to just slap on any old bar ends because the handlebar isn’t round on the ends. The bar is kind of “V” shaped where the grips are to allow for the Isozone padding underneath. The adapter is fitted into this bar giving you that extra rounded space to get some bar ends on there.

You can see the white padding under the grips in this shot.

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