Tales from today's commute....

[Origamist]

-1C and a chilly wind. Decided to forego the ice bike this morning and got away with it.

Made a poor filtering decision in Middlewich and clipped a white van's wing mirror with a car coming in the opposite direction. No damage done, but I apologized with a wave. Def not my best bit of riding and it's a another reminder that many of the incidents where I screw-up involve filtering too aggressively...

Hit pretty much every red light too...

 

[Ciar]

this fair morning, having barely slept due to daughter again! i had a nice easy ride with the usual wind in my face hopefully tonight it's the other way, i keep believing this but it's not happening ;-)

 

[DWiggy]

Ride home yesterday was with a nice tail wind I zipped home in eerie silence all I could hear was my wheels on the tarmac, this mornings ride was soggy...very soggy. Hopefully I should have another good tail wind this evening...l

 

[Nocode]

Very heavy rain woke me up this morning. Great. A wet commute awaits. But by the time I left home it had stopped and there was blue skies. Mucky roads though makes for a mucky bike. Oh well it did well to last one day of being clean.

At least the traffic has cleared today, No where near as bad as yesterday or last week. Let's see how long that continues for.

I wasn't so lucky - was rather wet by the time I joined the A21

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Got up this morning, raining and windy, didn't fancy riding at all. Since I was up I made myself get out and do my normal route. Got drenched then as it started getting light the skies cleared, I dried out and arrived at work under a blue sky.

Tonight it was even windier but dry and I felt like I could have ridden all night, setting off in the light makes so much difference.

 

[Simontm]

Decided to add a couple of miles onto the route home today - a) cos I really need to start increasing the mileage before August And b) needed to pound the roads before facing a very upset daughter (elsewhere on site)

So headed out from work and found myself going through Coulsdon and up Portnalls rd. That's a long stretch of upwardness innit Didn't expect that. Pleased to say I got up it without stopping and as I gently regained my composure and had a drink, a cyclist came from the other direction and gave me a thumbs up which was nice

Of course the insane (to me) downhill that I think was How's Lane more than made up for the near heart attack As well as the glorious sunset on the Epsom Downs

Numpty count: guess you could say 1 - me for not checking my route and riding with loaded panniers

Edited for pic

 

[J1888]

Two nights on the trot a horrible wind has blown me back while riding home. Hard slog even though it's only 6 miles.

 

[summerdays]

I found it very cold this morning and had to cycle through two lots of hail, whereas the cycle home was almost nice in the sun, just need a little more warmth.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Bloody windy again

 

[John_S]

Today's commute was bookended by a tale of two W's.

On the ride into work it was extremely wet with it chucking it down for my entire commute until I stepped into work and the rain stopped which I really appreciated. Especially having made time to actually clean my bike last weekend I wasn't best pleased to see it filthy agin by the time I'd arrived at work.

Then on the ride home it was blooming windy with a strong head wind in my face pretty much all of the way home, which again I really appreciated.

Still the fact that the first couple of minutes anyway of my commute weren't in pitch darkness cheered me up a bit.

Roll on the lighter evenings and the sooner the better.

John

 

[Exile]

Gorgeous this morning. Sunglasses, short sleeves and everything! OK, so it might have been a little chilly for the short sleeves, but I got caught up in the moment and still don't quite regret it. Traffic was light, I was fast and there seemed to be more than one conveniently placed buses offering handy drafting opportunities. Ride home was a bit more overcast and traffic was heavier, but still fairly mild, I got to filter through the traffic with alarming agility for a fat man on a bike, and there was a tailwind to cap it all off.

 

[martinclive]

Bloody windy again

...........what he said.....plus - my rear wheel is knackerd (like yours Kev) bearing gone and freewheel problem - was harder work than usual last night, putting the bike away I spun the rear wheel and it just grinds quickly to a halt - fortunately my new RS21s have just arrived - so just in time I think!

 

[DWiggy]

Lovely tail wind last night got my first kom proper (opposed to the 2015 ones), paid for it this morning with a nasty head wind. Will have to change my lenses to something other than clear seeing as it brightening up quite nicely now.

 

[Ganymede]

Last night.... moonlit midnight ride home, NOT ONE SINGLE CAR, utter bliss. I was knackered as I'd been to the theatre and also had a long day beforehand, but I zoomed round the corners as if the roads were closed. I was also wearing a dress, but managed to stay warm by wearing my 70% cashmere ski leggings instead of tights (oh yes).

Now have a lot of pain from an infected tooth, so I suspect my commute today with be to the doctor's.

 

[ianrauk]

Saw the aftermath of what looked like a strange accident this morning.
On the A21, looked like a car had hit a badger, (which was definitely dead) The car looked like it had done an emergency stop to try to avoid hitting it resulting in the car behind ramming the one in front and another car behind ramming that one. A bit of a mess.

On another note I felt totally embarrassed. I got scalped by a chap on a single speed. I was pootling along not really trying though . However it wasn't the embarrassment of being scalped by another cyclist or a single speeder rather then his bike was one of those yucky light green Bianchi's.

Was a little bit nippy too this morning. 2° When I left. But lovely sunny blue skies and nice dry roads.