Tales from today's commute....

[Biscuit]

1 mile from home last night and still dry. From that point on, we had thunder, lightning, and a river where the road used to be.
I carried on regardless, taking my foot off the gas after realising that short of jumping in the river, I wasn't going to get any wetter. ( I had tried to beat the deluge home )
I stood in the road outside my house, took off my lid, and had a shower in the big fat rain, arms aloft, two fingers at the sky, washing the sweat from my face. Dog watching me with some concern from the safety of the front room window.
Awesome! So after that I figure it can't get any worse and I can cycle in pretty much anything. Bollux to the weather. Ride on!!

 

[John90]

Had an exchange of words with three scaffolders in a lorry (probably not the cleverest thing to do). I was indicating to change into the right hand lane approaching a filter going 'round Clapham Common. They were some way behind but sped up so that I couldn't swap lanes and then came to a stop 10 meters on at the lights with me pulling up alongside them. Annoyingly I suppose I have to admit that they had the right of way but after we swapped compliments I rolled the bike ahead of them and sat in front of the lorry in a 'what did you gain by doing that' gesture. Apart from that, an unusually large number of drivers seemed intent on very close overtakes today, meaning it hasn't been my favourite commute of the year so far. Coming home was alright tho.

 

[Sandra6]

Lovely sunny and smooth ride home today - in part thanks to my "personal" mechanic who put air in my tyres. With a suggested psi of 75 it was fairly shocking that mine were at just 30
Met my eldest son at the bottom of our street and he dared me to race home (he was on foot!) I was set for a clear win but for the wvm who wouldn't let me turn

 

[potsy]

There were 2 dead pigeons on Brinksway alone this morn. I'm guessing there is some sort of civil pigeon war on or something. They seemed intact, not the usual half squashed offerings*.

*Much easier to make them presentable on the dinner plate.

I saw 1 of them on the way home, the other either made a miraculous recovery or is being served as tonights 'special' at the local takeaway

Another fairly incident free commute, though I did have a lad ride straight towards me going thru the park, too busy texting away on his phone to look up until I said 'Whoa'

 

[benb]

I cycled home from work with my son on the tagalong (we have a nursery at work).

Lovely, lots of fun.

 

[BentMikey]

Even more with a child's trailer....

Weirdly enough I get less space on the recumbent with trailer than I get with the recumbent alone. Maybe it's partly due to my much reduced speed, and partly because the trailer makes the recumbent much less scary to drivers?

 

[Jdratcliffe]

eventfull commute - well not really but two things caught me eye 1- a guy Track standing on a boris bike! go you had to say was impressed. 2- a tiny very attractive woman ( thou not a touch on the missies) on an equally attractive Felt F2 Ultegra DI2 Carbon roadie and what the shocker was it was a 50cm frame! didnt think you could get them that small!! was a very nice bike asked it was female specific but no was uni - sex

 

[fossyant]

I saw 1 of them on the way home, the other either made a miraculous recovery or is being served as tonights 'special' at the local takeaway

Still two there - not gone to the local takeaweay yet !

 

[400bhp]

I was a nob today - must have been grumpy this morning. Gave some cyclist a bit of stick for moving to the front of an ASL when me and a girl were waiting behind a the first car in a queue who had his indicator on to turn left-we were all going straight on. Driver was half in the ASL and cyclist was 3/4 wheel ahead of the car.

It would have put doubt in the driver's mind when turning left. Prior to the cyclist moving into the ASL the driver would have been clear we were waiting for him to turn left. By making the car wait to make his turn he would have been unsure what we were going to do.

Anyway-an innocuous matter in the grand scheme of things and I got a bit carried away with verbals.

 

[BSRU]

Two punishment passes in two rides on the same section of road, both upset at being delayed a few seconds getting to their destination just a few hundred metres away.

 

[ianrauk]

Had a typical Chav in shitty red hatch this morning execute 2 close passes.
In hoody, low in seat, leaning over, hand on steering wheel at the 12 oclock position and no seatbelt.
Tosser.

I was so willing him to stop so we could have words.

 

[fossyant]

Brief verbals with a Discovery driver this morning - pulled out on me, bit difficult at 32.2 mph downhill on fixed (checked the garmin) - he thought I should be on the left - erm YOU pulled out on me, I was doing 30, so went round the outside as the road was clear.

Fatty ! Made a very quick run into work this morning though - 18.8 mph ave, normally 17.5.

 

[Edwards80]

Has something changed recently. Had about 4 months of no issues, got hit by a van last week and had a chap in a bright green ford focus pull out on my on the way home last night. I turned to look at him and said

"I say old bean, perhaps you should look before pulling out of a junction to enable everyone to have a jolly time on the roads" . . or words to that effect.

He just shouted sorry and gave the "5 year old who just got told off by his mum for pinching a biscuit" eyes. Muppet.

I did enjoy saying hello to the 2 dead pigeons lining my commute again today though.

 

[ianrauk]

I did enjoy saying hello to the 2 dead pigeons lining my commute again today though.

Still there are they?
No foxes around your area to snaffle them up then?

 

[benb]

Nice ride in today. That really refreshing light rain can be lovely - as long as it's warm as well.

I did get a punishment pass, after I'd given someone a look for encroaching into the cycle filter lane leading to a ASZ. Will check the footage later to see if it's worth uploading, but not enough to pee me off.