bike commute

While living here in SoCal, I've lived a variety of distances from where I've worked. The closest I lived to where I "clocked in" was maybe 2k away - I drove to work everyday while living there.

Then, there was a period where I lived maybe 10-12k away and I pedaled nearly every day to work for more than a year.

Where I live now is 40k away and when I first moved out here I pedaled both ways two days a week - that lasted about 6 months until we bought a second vehicle, and that made me a bit more lazy...

I've been really lazy when it comes to the bike commuting thing for the past few years, BTW!



While living where we are right now, I've also been known to drive about halfway, park the rig, and then ride the rest of the way in, and that's just what I did two times this week. Felt pretty good to pedal in the morning with no real goals other than to eventually make it to work.



The driving part way and then riding the rest, trick, really only costs me an additional ten to fifteen minutes, as the part I ride is the traffic-y portion of my regular commute.



Of course, I use the SRM and hey, check that out, I actually get some goin' hard time in on the ride! ;-)





I hope to make this bike commute a more regular occurrence, besides, burnin' a few more KJ's is a good thing for me right about now.

It's going to start getting dark here pretty soon around quittin' time - and my old light system is, well, kinda old (circa 1996/1997 where it got good use in Blacksburg!) - I reckon the light systems these days are a wee-bit better than what was available 10 years ago...

Anybody have any light recommendations for me?