Wednesday, April 30, 2008

April wrap up

We adopted our daughter this month. Definately top billing.

Only 6 round trips this month by the bike. I was able to save 5.84 gallons. I used 13.48 gallons.

More bicyclists have appeared on the B & A Trial after work and around town as the weather has improved. I kinda miss the cooler weather. The trip in today was a brief reminder of the winter weather.

We had a stretch of rainy weather and during the best weather of the month I was busy working in the family room in the basement. I put in a dricore subfloor and a laminate floating floor on top of that. Now trying to figure out insulation.

I fianlly got a new water bottle that doesn't leak. Much better that the old sieve, um bottle I was using before.

So totals for the year:
19 gallons and $59.30 saved
18 roundtrips (24.25%) of my commuting miles

Friday, April 25, 2008

Everything is Fine

After I rode into work this morning, gotten cleaned up and started to work my wife called. She hasn't felt the baby kicking except for some very weak kicks since the previous afternoon. So she was coming into town to check this out. So I rode the 4 miles to the doctor's office. Everything's fine. Very good news. So I rode close to 42 miles today, instead of 32. On the way home, the traffic out of town was terrible, so I led another commuter on a shortcut.

I confess, I passed stopped cars on the right. Bad cyclist.

The total so far for the year:
17 round trips by bike (23.9% of my commuting miles)
18.07 gallons of gas saved
$56.16 saved in gas costs

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Parasite be gone

I got a parasite on the ride home. Someone on the trail was practicing their drafting on me for a few miles. If you want to ride that close to my rear wheel and gcet a easier trip, share the love!!!
I'm still a little new at this but that seemed uncool.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Riding home with the boss's boss

There might be a convert to the bicycle commuting cause. The boss's boss is starting to ride in occasionally. It turns out that we were leaving at the same time, so we rode together to the B&A Trail ranger station were he packed up his bike and drove and I kept riding home.

I was a little bit faster, but that was probably the bike. He's on a hybrid and I'm on the Trek 1.2.

Since there is a lot going on the at the house, I've only been able to do the commute by bike 3 times in April, including today.