Loveland Colorado, a new place to call home

I am now about a month into my new job in Loveland, Colorado. It's a small town south of Ft. Collins. Upon arriving, we stayed in a cabin for about a month while trying to secure our new residence and I decided to get 2 new bikes to add to our quiver. One singlespeed road bike for me and a hybrid townie for Sara. These bikes fit our new small town bike path lifestyle and the singlespeed is great for a daily rider since it's so flat here. The 46/16 gearing seemed perfect. I picked up this Chinese steel tank from Recycled cycles and changed the stem, bars, and levers for super cheap. 

Sara's bike is a nice light Aluminum hybrid which she has really enjoyed. We added a basket for our little yorkie but she gets motion sick easily.

My first Moutain bike ride was at Devils Backbone. Very desert like terrain here and I'm not super keen on all the rattlesnakes. I snapped this shot on my way to The Horsetooth reservoir. 

Sara joined me for a ride but found the terrain to be more rugged than she had hopped for. 

August was the end of Monsoon season and we did experience frequent intense storms. The sun breaks make for frequent rainbows. 

I cheap my Chinese freewheel only lasted 200 miles so I switched to fixed gear but 20 miles a day fixed just didn't work for my knees so I switched back to freewheel and my knees are happy. I am really enjoying my bike path 20 mile round trip commute and I am finally feeling like the 100 miles over 5 days a week is very doable and I can still fit in some pleasure rides on top of that. My previous commute I had been used to was half the distance so it took some training to work up to it. 

How can you beat a commute like this? 

short sleeves won't last much longer, next week is October!