Tales from today's commute....

[Maverick Goose]

This morning's earworm... Heartbreaker by Dionne Warwick. Then on the way back it was what's wrong, what's wrong with being confident...

 

[Andrew_P]

Flew home like a cycling god legs were saying c'mon give it more welly we got plenty left. Thanks 20mph tailwind..

fark me if I could get that bottled as an add on accessory Rodders we would be millionaires!

 

[tatr]

Flew home like a cycling god legs were saying c'mon give it more welly we got plenty left. Thanks 20mph tailwind...

Oh yes! 40 miles at 17.5mph average speed with mudguards, winter tyres and a 6kg rucksack. That's despite being held up by slow moving cars! Fantastic day to be on a bike... if you were going east. The west bound commuters looked a bit knackered :-D

 

[HarryTheDog]

Bland ride in against a headwind till Canning town, Then on the next 3 lane roundabout a twat in a Subaru sat behind me blasting his horn for no reason apart from me being in front of him and not doing 60mph, then straight after, on the same roundabout a idiot in a Discovery went straight through a red light whilst texting luckily I saw him coming and applied the brakes. Caught him in traffic he was still texting and gave him the stare of death, he gave me the finger of contempt.

 

[fimm]

Very, very, very wet in Edinburgh yesterday evening.
And cold (I think it turned to snow for a bit, after I got home).
Did I mention it was wet?

 

[donnydave]

After a couple of months of a truce, hostilities with the driver of the Fiat 500 have resumed.

There's a bloke in a fiat 500 that I see regularly on my commute, he's a very angry little man and I often see him driving agressively. He recognises me and now regularly in one particular stop start queue (same place every morning) positions his car to try stop me from passing.

 

[martint235]

There's a bloke in a fiat 500 that I see regularly on my commute, he's a very angry little man and I often see him driving agressively. He recognises me and now regularly in one particular stop start queue (same place every morning) positions his car to try stop me from passing.

I look out for them now. I haven't seen one driven well yet.

 

[Lonestar]

Nice 205 bus driver at Bow let me go up his inside...Totally unexpected as I was biding my time to overtake in the safest way I could in the road works but a very nice gesture.Never used to like buses but as you can guess they are my favourite road users now.

17mph headwind in and bugger all help coming back.

 

[Ciar]

The normal ride in this morning, temperature down a tad but still in the shorts and tshirt but with a base layer underneath, no real issues nothing exciting to report, as it's day 5 out of 5 i decided to pootle across East London and crawl into Canary Wharf.

 

[hennbell]

First off of the winter. Was all my fault, temperature was very warm this morning +2, all week we have been at -10 or less. Hit a bit of a down hill with an s curve, was enjoying it a little to much much going too fast. As I entered the second part of the curve the front wheel lost grip, tried to recover it , but ended up sliding to the side of the path sitting on top of my downed steed. Good news is that I did it with no one to witness it.

Earlier in the ride I got caught hopping a gate to take a short cut down an industrial road. Was not close to the actual work site but I should not have been there. It one of those areas that is owned by a large oil company to access one of there sites. Every one uses it to walk there dogs and stretch there legs, but I should not be there. The attraction to the area is that it keeps me away from the traffic, allows me to enjoy some technical terrain, and the snow drifts are deep and fun.

 

[subaqua]

nice ride along canal this morning to Kings Cross, then train to Cambridge and a nice ride along the GBW to Addenbrookes.

decsions decisions for the trip home. do i get the 45minute train into Kings Cross and then ride 35 minutes home along the same bit of canal i have for a while, or the hour train to Tottenham Hale and the 35 minutes ride along nearly new canal route to me. .......


hmmmm

 

[Supersuperleeds]

nice ride along canal this morning to Kings Cross, then train to Cambridge and a nice ride along the GBW to Addenbrookes.

decsions decisions for the trip home. do i get the 45minute train into Kings Cross and then ride 35 minutes home along the same bit of canal i have for a while, or the hour train to Tottenham Hale and the 35 minutes ride along nearly new canal route to me. .......


hmmmm

Third option, skip the train and have a proper commute

 

[summerdays]

Morning commute... Passed the science of what looked like a bad motorcycle accident, I'm hoping he's not too badly hurt.

Homeward commute, the Gloucester Road was solid, I'd have hated to be in that in a car as all I did was filter past stationary cars!

 

[subaqua]

Third option, skip the train and have a proper commute

I chose Tottenham hale.

i did consider the long commute but i need to take youngest sprog swimming tonight and the proper commute would be 4 to 5 hours

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I chose Tottenham hale.

i did consider the long commute but i need to take youngest sprog swimming tonight and the proper commute would be 4 to 5 hours

Think I might have taken the train option as well