I rode today. Did you?

Nice first ride in the COLD.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on March 17, 2015 at 2:01am

Heading south? I rode from Evanston to the Loop this morning. I don't think I've ever ridden so fast solo, certainly not that easily. And I wasn't riding one of my go-fast bikes. Weather Bug reported a flood advisory, so (of course), I had to check out the lake. I turned off LFT at Foster, then took Simmonds to Montrose. I stopped at the Montrose marina because the sailboats in dry dock were singing like a steel drum band ("Let us out! We want to go play in the water!"). I took some "video":

Windy Commute

You can't really see anything because it was too dark, but perhaps you can hear the band. Sorry it's sideways. I guess I forgot to tilt my camera properly before pressing "record".

I was having so much fun I kept going south instead of turning off at Fullerton. I got as far as the Oak Street curve where I was thwarted by big chunks of ice the wind had thrown up on the path. I stopped and took a little video there as well. Then I turned back, took the Oak St underpass, then headed west to Wells to resume my commute.

(I hope the clips are accessible. I can't view them in Chrome, and Firefox gives me an internal server error just trying to access the album.)

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Permalink Reply by grayn8 on March 17, 2015 at 2:21am

Chicago to Ogden to douglas park. So, south and west. And I didn't feel like I had a nice tail wind. Glad you did. I'm just feeling burnt. Maybe I need to check chain and tire pressure. Link worked in mobile. Lake looked awesome.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on March 17, 2015 at 2:27am

Riding on city streets heading primarily southeast, it was a nice tail wind. Except when it was a head wind. Or a cross wind.

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Permalink Reply by Huck1eberry on March 17, 2015 at 2:38am

Straight down Kedzie Humboldt to 65th. It was something.

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Permalink Reply by Jose A. Terrazas on March 17, 2015 at 3:04am

Yes, I rode today. Straight into the wind. 35th and Damen straight North to Grand and eased up a bit westbound on Grand to Kedzie. Thought I was going to fly off the I55 overpass. Hoping to sail home later.
Whew!!

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Permalink Reply by daWillinChi on March 17, 2015 at 3:19am

Yay for south wind. I made it to work in less than 35 minutes from Edgewater to the loop! It usually takes me around 45 minutes.

Let's see how bad tonight's commute home going north will be.

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Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on March 17, 2015 at 5:16am

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on March 17, 2015 at 5:22am

Whitecaps in the harbor--must be a windy day. :-)

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Permalink Reply by MLK on March 17, 2015 at 6:17am

Sometimes it's better not to know, but if anyone likes to look at wind forecasts:

http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwhere.iws?regionID=142&siteID=1...

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Permalink Reply by daWillinChi on March 17, 2015 at 7:00am

I use this: http://hint.fm/wind/

And this: http://www.mykpod.com/public_html.jpg

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Permalink Reply by grayn8 on March 18, 2015 at 2:07am

Lol. So after yesterday's terrible rides. I started off feeling really beat. Walked the bike over Damen at 18th on my way to western and noted my rear brake pad is shoved a kilter and my rear tire is really light on air. So, I'm dang lucky no snakebite or popped tire/tube. Lesson learned. If your ride feels really hard before blaming weather and age check gear?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on March 18, 2015 at 2:13am

I guess there are some situations where my mighty smartphone camera doesn't work well, but still, these views were pretty cool this morning. You'll have to use your imagination. :-)

Moon rise: