Landmarks only I know about on my commute

[rb58]

The Pimlico Plumbers vans that pass me on Eltham Hill......

 

[martint235]

The Pimlico Plumbers vans that pass me on Eltham Hill......

Have you collected all the number plates yet?

 

[rb58]

Have you collected all the number plates yet?

I've seen a good selection.

 

[rb58]

We're fast approaching the London Marathon, which means that the pot holes get filled in on the part of my commute that follows the London Marathon route. I'll need to start to memorize a new set.

 

[lejogger]

It's not just the landmarks, but cars and other cyclists that all converge to enhance the commuting experience...

For example: if I meet 'wavy' goatee-beard cyclist at any point before the 'old water tower' then I'm definitely running late... Yesterday we met at the 'flag pole park', so I was really cutting it fine

On the way home, if I pass 'grumpy' Duff Jersey cyclist after 'Prenton Peak' then I'm making good time.

There's loads of cars that I see nearly every day too... 'YMCA car', 'roof-box Audi', 'K-reg Micra' 'Champagne Beemer'... etc

 

[potsy]

The smell of the refuse site is not too good on Longley Lane, Wythenshawe.

Pass it twice a day, buffs were invented for those kinds of smells

My landmarks are mainly the pot-holes which have been engraved in my memory, and also places of increased danger, certain RAB's and junctions where near misses have happened in the past.
Most recent landmark is the fallen tree on the off road trail I use sometimes, still down nearly 3 months since it happened, makes for a nice bit of limbo'ing to get past

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The Pimlico Plumbers vans that pass me on Eltham Hill......

The only thing I've ever noticed going up to Eltham is the apparently infinite number of red lights that you have to navigate on the way up the high street.

 

[JoeM]

Not on the commute, but one of our routes out of town to get to the hills takes us past a field that used to have a ginormous (and I mean HUGE) pig in it. The bump just after is now and forever will be known as pig hill.

For some reason he's not been around since Xmas!

 

[rb58]

And the lady jogger with blonde curly hair coming form the opposite direction. If I pass before I get to Blackfen, I'm running late.

 

[subaqua]

I'm rather curious to know what an orange onion bag blob is.

the orange net bags that onions come in when you buy them in bulk (10kg) theres 1 by spitalfields market near the end of my commute, and there is one at the end of the road i live on.

 

[palinurus]

Not only do I know the potholes I also know where all those little concrete droppings that fall off the back of mixer trucks are.

Pig hill- good one.

 

[palinurus]

also places of increased danger, certain RAB's and junctions where near misses have happened in the past.

I think of those too, but I don't have names for them (I could name them of course: dented door panel roundabout, chin-stitch junction, sore leg hill ...)

 

[palinurus]

And the lady jogger with blonde curly hair coming form the opposite direction. If I pass before I get to Blackfen, I'm running late.

I have some moving landmarks too. Only one was ever given a name- "Bob the bike". I doubt his name was Bob.

Wonder what happened to him? Back in the early 90s he was pretty much the only other cyclist I'd see.

 

[perplexed]

The bloke in the huge yellow coat walking his Alsation, means I'm on time.

The smell of marijuana from some of the maisonettes quite some distance away which drifts across the road at a certain point.

The ice slick in winter, where some dozy old bugger washes his car on the road knowing it will run across the street...

 

[Edwards80]

If I catch the lady in the "Network Rail" High vis vest after I go down Brinksway near to the Stockport Pyramid, I know I have spent too long yapping at the office or I am riding too slowly

Likewise on the way to the office, I often catch a chap on a specialized hybrid who gets angry at drivers for no apparent reason and fires snot rockets every 20 yards. I pass him as soon as I can . . . carefully Fortunately I only see him if I set off later than usual.