Tales from today's commute....

[biggs682]

I'm considering going down from Great Doddington and over Hardwater on the way home ... I don't fancy the climb on the way out. It gets me blowing even without carrying my work stuff !

I know what you mean

 

[dhd.evans]

Sometimes you just learn to live with idiocy:

 

[rugby bloke]

Sometimes you just learn to live with idiocy:

And parked past the ASL at the traffic lights ... utter twunt.

 

[I like Skol]

Really feeling the love for the cycle commute at the moment (along with every man and his dog it would seem).

Last nights ride was accompanied very appropriately by the following tunes....

Life just seems good when the sun is shining and I am riding in shorts and a short sleeved top, even if I am heading to work for a 12hr night shift

 

[dhd.evans]

And parked past the ASL at the traffic lights ... utter twunt.

Unfortunately this junction is particularly bad for that, being right around the corner from the main city centre taxi rank. Should i bother with reporting him? Who knows. I sigh and move on.

 

[I like Skol]

I sigh and move on.

TBH you should have known what you were going to get from the way he was parked at the lights. I'm not saying it makes him any less wrong but all the warning signs were there.... As you say, sigh and carry on, we all know who was badly at fault

 

[ianrauk]

Bbbbrrrrr... nice sunny morning for the commute but back to being a tad chilly.
I put a new chain and cassette on the bike at the weekend and it's skipping on the inner chainset ring.. so need to get a new one I suppose.

 

[dhd.evans]

TBH you should have known what you were going to get from the way he was parked at the lights. I'm not saying it makes him any less wrong but all the warning signs were there.... As you say, sigh and carry on, we all know who was badly at fault

Aye, i should have read it like a book!

 

[jayonabike]

Cycling out of the estate at 4.15 this morning and saw what I thought was a pile of clothes in the road, as I got closer I realised it was a woman in the road and seemed unconscious. Stopped, spoke but got no reply. Rang 999 the responder asked is she breathing but I couldn’t tell as her hair was over her face. Tried to turn her on to her back and she started groaning so at least she was alive. She said she was cold, looked like she had been there for a while and it was freezing this morning. 5 minutes later the ambulance turned up and they managed to get her to sit up. No idea what had happened but she didn’t look in a good way. They said thanks for ringing and waiting and sent me on my way.
Not what you expect to see at that time in the morning

 

[rugby bloke]

Cycling out of the estate at 4.15 this morning and saw what I thought was a pile of clothes in the road, as I got closer I realised it was a woman in the road and seemed unconscious. Stopped, spoke but got no reply. Rang 999 the responder asked is she breathing but I couldn’t tell as her hair was over her face. Tried to turn her on to her back and she started groaning so at least she was alive. She said she was cold, looked like she had been there for a while and it was freezing this morning. 5 minutes later the ambulance turned up and they managed to get her to sit up. No idea what had happened but she didn’t look in a good way. They said thanks for ringing and waiting and sent me on my way.
Not what you expect to see at that time in the morning

Well done, Lucky that you were passing and you cared enough to stop and help otherwise it may have ended very badly for the lady.

 

[C R]

Cycling out of the estate at 4.15 this morning and saw what I thought was a pile of clothes in the road, as I got closer I realised it was a woman in the road and seemed unconscious. Stopped, spoke but got no reply. Rang 999 the responder asked is she breathing but I couldn’t tell as her hair was over her face. Tried to turn her on to her back and she started groaning so at least she was alive. She said she was cold, looked like she had been there for a while and it was freezing this morning. 5 minutes later the ambulance turned up and they managed to get her to sit up. No idea what had happened but she didn’t look in a good way. They said thanks for ringing and waiting and sent me on my way.
Not what you expect to see at that time in the morning

An unsettling start to the day. She was lucky you found her.

 

[DCBassman]

Cycling out of the estate at 4.15 this morning and saw what I thought was a pile of clothes in the road, as I got closer I realised it was a woman in the road and seemed unconscious. Stopped, spoke but got no reply. Rang 999 the responder asked is she breathing but I couldn’t tell as her hair was over her face. Tried to turn her on to her back and she started groaning so at least she was alive. She said she was cold, looked like she had been there for a while and it was freezing this morning. 5 minutes later the ambulance turned up and they managed to get her to sit up. No idea what had happened but she didn’t look in a good way. They said thanks for ringing and waiting and sent me on my way.
Not what you expect to see at that time in the morning

Lucky lady, well done you.

 

[biggs682]

@jayonabike has to the cycle chat star of the day to say the least

 

[rugby bloke]

Another good commute in today. Took a longer and hillier route this morning to avoid the traffic but was feeling good so had a quicker average speed. Starting to find out how quick you can get around London on a half decent bike - 9 minutes from St Pancras to St Pauls, very happy with that. The downside - you do tend to get frustrated by red lights !

 

[Arjimlad]

Any doubts over whether to bother reporting a close pass this morning were resolved in favour of doing so, upon learning that the vehicle has no current MOT. Otherwise I enjoyed a beautiful 18-mile country route to work (albeit a trifle plagued in places by roadworks and school-run SUV types)