Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Gusty wind today, couldn't make up it's mind which way it's blowing.

Cyclops junction. Going north or east seems ok (with the caution of watching other cyclists as above) but south is rubbish due to the pedestrians on the bus stop, and west is worst of all. Coming in you arrive at the top of the cyclops 'eye' and are routed 270degrees around the circle to continue. Obviously many people don't do this (maybe don't even notice it's the 'correct' action as it's not that clear on the road) and are then in the wrong cycle lane facing the wrong way.

Weirdly, there was no wind at all at home when I set off, but a couple of miles down the road it was gusty, and a weird tail cross (I'm going West in the morning) but then a raging headwind when I turned North.

Issues with cyclops this morning, I crossed on green, two cyclists heading North sailed through on red like the signals mean nothing. One 'had' to stop - I wasn't !

 

[HLaB]

Not quite a commute for me this morning but I dropped of the car for an MOT and cycled back. Lol, when I got back the weather forecaster was using some German word to explain cold wind less environments. That might have been the correct word for last weeks weather but today and yesterday for that measure were cold and windy!

 

[fossyant]

Not quite a commute for me this morning but I dropped of the car for an MOT and cycled back. Lol, when I got back the weather forecaster was using some German word to explain cold wind less environments. That might have been the correct word for last weeks weather but today and yesterday for that measure were cold and windy!

I thought I heard the weather man talking about a 'polar vortex' to be on the look out for - didn't catch the rest of the forecast, so are we under 6 foot of snow next week ? Need to check the Express for an 'accurate' forecast

 

[katiewlx]

no it means the jet stream has been north of the UK for a bit, and theres been a high pressure zone stuck up there,which means we have been stuck with easterly winds this week at least, and some of them have felt like they come directly from the steppes.

but I read today the Met Office have moved their super weather predictor computer into the cloud compute...aka data centres, which I thought was quite amusing

 

[HLaB]

A nice quiet commute in, actually quieter than last week's half term. It was also closer to Dunkelfraude weather!

 

[ianrauk]

It says 8° on the thermometer but it does feels warmer. Gloomy out there though.

On the PX today for the long ride all the way home this afternoon.

The bike is sans mudguards you may notice as I haven't refitted them after my little jolly to the Spanish mountains. That's this weekends job.

No rain forecast for today thankfully.

 

[biking_fox]

Grey gloomy skies here. Quiet road friday again, enjoying the dry leaves on the Floop off-road - although they mask a lot of surprise bumps.. I'm sure they'll be annoying mush far too quickly.

 

[spen666]

Bit of a shock this morning at how cold it was.
Still cold weather never stopped the motorists jumping red lights or the driving instructors encouraging their learners to turn right into path of cyclist using cycle lane on opposite side of road. Even worse, said instructor then shouted abuse at me , blaming me for the dangerous driving.
Still, its nearly the weekend and not going to spoil my day

 

[HLaB]

Interestingly, or not, when I got off the train at Stevenage, the council had gritted all the cycle paths. It was cold but surely it was not that cold!

Well that the day over and the train part of my commute is starting.