Ode to Autumn

I took the last day of summer by the handlebars and rode today. I always hate to see summer go. The cooler air is refreshing though! Hey, I think that just rhymed… my ode to Autumn!

The ride in: Overcast, in the upper fifties.

Comments: I rode the Bianchi again this morning. A great commute day, aside from the idiot who came screaming up behind me driving through Heritage Park (posted 10 m.p.h.) just to cut me off. This so he could get to the newspaper machine at Canterbury Plaza. According to him, I don’t belong in the road (I was in a plaza driveway, but anyway…). I argued the point, but the argument was obviously falling on deaf ears… a waste of my breath. This bit is for this and similar idiots, although the ones who need to read it will not. Mass. Law states that:

the bicycle is defined as a vehicle [MGL Ch. 85, §11B, 720 CMR 9.01 (26, 28)] and so the same traffic rules apply between motorists, between bicyclists, and as each interacts with the other. Motorists, however, must take special care in approaching and passing bicyclists [MGL Ch. 90 § 14].

Can’t we all just get along?

The ride home: Overcast, in the lower sixties.

Number of fellow cyclists seen on both trips: 1