Tales from today's commute....

[HLaB]

It's like most residential streets in Britain

In my new estate, everything bigger than a 1 bed has at least 2 spaces and bigger properties have a garage too and it doesn't stop it being much different ☹️

 

[HLaB]

After a strong South Westerly blowing me in this morning, I was expecting a strong headwind tonight but its changed to a WSW so it wasn't bad or maybe it was the massive MIGF SUV on town bridge desperate to join the queue at the lights. He was pushing through regardless of me or the cars in the outer lane waiting to turn right.

At first I thought of breezing through but there was no real gap to slot in so I decided to draft him to the lights and overtake him 30s down the urban dual carriageway, where you can only be in the outside lane if you're turning right like me.

 

[biking_fox]

Damp (wet!), but warm. With a tailwind. Took the shortest direct route in , but actually didn't seem that bad and could have gone the longer way. Suspect the tailwind was masking the worst of it.

 

[ianrauk]

I was a lucky cycle commuting bunny today. It was cold, dark, damp and windy this morning. Cycling the mile to the train station was in the rain. Got to the other end and it was still raining but only very slightly. Luckily it abated for the ride to work. Walking through the door for only five minutes later the heavens opening big time.

So rainy commute # 30 for the year
Same period last year 39 rainy commutes

 

[Arjimlad]

Dodged it this morning and drove to work. On arriving I realised it hadn't been anything like as wet as the forecast and I regretted not cycling. Maybe the evening will be worse.

 

[blackrat]

I have said before that to ride a bike on the streets where I live would be suicidal, and as awful as commuting is with traffic in Britain, I thought a report in today's newspaper in my city of some 3 - 4 million, might be of interest: In the period between 1 Jan to 30 Sep some 224 people were killed on the roads and another 1,136 were injured.