Tales from today's commute....
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Not really sure to be honest.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
If anything like me it's because he changed bags at weekend and didn't swap the damn things over ....
Thankfully only a mile to walk but then a wait for on yer bike at London Bridge to open for a new tube !
hennbell
Guru
- Location
- Lloydminster, Alberta , Canada
If there is a lot of fog I would park my bicycle.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Over 35 degrees for most of my 90 minute ride home today. That was hard work. 
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Several glasses of cold soy milk and water, and I finally don't feel thirsty.
Give me strength! Tomorrow is predicted to be 38 and quite windy. I hope there aren't any nasty bushfires.
Give me strength! Tomorrow is predicted to be 38 and quite windy. I hope there aren't any nasty bushfires.
Cold (for me anyway) start this morning and after 1/2 mile or so I encountered pretty dense fog for a few miles until I climbed out of it. After 5 miles I was proper toasty and enjoyed passing the particularly long queue of traffic into Belfast this morning. Got to work dry, heating was blasting in the shower room and hardly anyone's in the office, class.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
No ice this morning 
Bizarrely quiet on the commute in this morning, and far fewer cyclists than I normally see. Half term early for some? Conditions weren't bad either - about 5 degrees and no rain - bit of a headwind mind, so I'm looking forward to a nice 8-10mph push home....
Late start this morning so my commute involved 5 minutes of waiting for cars over Swarkestone Causeway....frustrating! Late finish too showed how many people were enjoying the commute...loads of cyclists out including some club runs.
Back to back commutes but probably no more this week due to predictions of ice.
Back to back commutes but probably no more this week due to predictions of ice.
hennbell
Guru
- Location
- Lloydminster, Alberta , Canada
Enjoying the return to sunlit rides on the way home.
Morning rides start in the pitch dark and finish just before sunrise.
Morning rides start in the pitch dark and finish just before sunrise.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Enjoyed last nights ride home, not too chilly and dry, which is always a bonus. Came hooning around a corner at one point and crashed through a nasty pothole at the side of a manhole with quite some force. Haven't noticed this hole before so must have been slightly off my usual line. Never mind, my hand built 29r style MTB grade commuter wheels and 35c tyres shrugged it off as usual and I carried on with a smug grin to myself.
RoubaixCube
~Tribanese~
- Location
- London, UK
Not as cold as i thought it would be so decided to chance it and take the bike. At least its not stupidly windy or pouring down with rain. Grey, Dull and overcast
Origamist
Legendary Member
Chilly but no ice.
Coming through Knutsford a driver, totally oblivious, pulls out of a side road into my path - luckily I had scrubbed a bit of speed off as the lights further ahead were on red, but I still had to emergency brake to avoid hitting him. I can only assume he thought I was slowing to let him out, or more likely, he simply didn't see me. He at least waved his hand by way of an apology when I shouted.
Minding my own business in the Ashley area when a driver attempts an overtake on a bend, I look back and he aborts as traffic is coming the other way. Tail-gates for a bit then passes - reasonably close but not scarily so. I gently shake my head. He then slows...presumably thinks about stopping, but decides against it because it's a rural road and it's another stupid idea. Half a mile later I see he has pulled in on a straight stretch, opening his boot and reaching for something. My spidey senses are now tingling, but I decide not to stop and cycle towards him, watching closely what he does (there are cars behind me) - he then proceeds to pull out a white hard-hat, waves it at me and says "you need this helmet - do I want it". I tell him where to go. I then pull in at the next junction as I don't want him behind me and he passes without incident.
Funny thing is, he wasn't a knuckle dragging ruffian, but was well spoken with long collar length hair. If I didn't know better I'd take him for a wanna-be guitarist in a shoe gazing type band. In reality he was more likely a surveyor with a floppy haircut.
First two incidents of 2017 - things had been going so well!
Coming through Knutsford a driver, totally oblivious, pulls out of a side road into my path - luckily I had scrubbed a bit of speed off as the lights further ahead were on red, but I still had to emergency brake to avoid hitting him. I can only assume he thought I was slowing to let him out, or more likely, he simply didn't see me. He at least waved his hand by way of an apology when I shouted.
Minding my own business in the Ashley area when a driver attempts an overtake on a bend, I look back and he aborts as traffic is coming the other way. Tail-gates for a bit then passes - reasonably close but not scarily so. I gently shake my head. He then slows...presumably thinks about stopping, but decides against it because it's a rural road and it's another stupid idea. Half a mile later I see he has pulled in on a straight stretch, opening his boot and reaching for something. My spidey senses are now tingling, but I decide not to stop and cycle towards him, watching closely what he does (there are cars behind me) - he then proceeds to pull out a white hard-hat, waves it at me and says "you need this helmet - do I want it". I tell him where to go. I then pull in at the next junction as I don't want him behind me and he passes without incident.
Funny thing is, he wasn't a knuckle dragging ruffian, but was well spoken with long collar length hair. If I didn't know better I'd take him for a wanna-be guitarist in a shoe gazing type band. In reality he was more likely a surveyor with a floppy haircut.
First two incidents of 2017 - things had been going so well!
