Tales from today's commute....

[Mapster1989]

I only have a short 3 mile ride home but theres a short Strava segment up a short incline. I recently lost the KOM so I went for it back again. Surely I've done it. It felt fast.

*Uploads ride*

No KOM! What?!?! It wasn't even my fastest time. Slower by 2 seconds.

Drat.

 

[musa]

nice commute bit chilly but i saw people commuting the other direction which was a first for me. discovered my tyre was going flat slowly got halfway and felt it..pumped it just to get me to work and fix..went flat when got to brixton so popped to brixton cycle to fix and use track pump.

swing 5hours later coming home cs7 route this time....tyre goes down in tootting so i pump to get me home (this is a new tube) so made it home just about. 5 ways roundabouts was wobbly on the exiting.

tyre had a splint inside, pulled out with tweezer and now its flat again....patch not done properly i guess

 

[martint235]

Quick run in today. Largely due to chasing down an RLJer (just cos I wanted to). To said RLJer the "Sraaahhad ahhf fasdhahhas " that you heard as I sped past you was in fact "Please stop jumping red lights you silly boy" or words to that effect distorted by the Doppler effect.

And you can tell it's summer, our car park at work looks like a Cycle to Work Scheme Showroom: all blingy Boardmans and Treks. There was even a Van Nich in there last night, no idea who owns that.

And I punctured a Marathon tyre last night on the way home. Some kind of metal shaving went straight through it.

 

[BSRU]

Been a great week for cycling, 350km already with 3.4km of climbing and the legs still feel OK

 

[fossyant]

Scooters are slow.

Followed a scooter through a junction before we were both due to turn right through a one way system. Anyway, he was cornering way to slowly, so I passed him on the outside of the bend (his left) and left him for dust - took him another 300 yards to catch me. Conti 4 Seasons rock !

 

[fossyant]

Saw a poor truck driver stuck at the "No left turn" raised kerbs in Cheadle. I was stopped at the lights so I got to watch for a minute as he tried to reverse his truck out at an impossible angle. I won't be surprised if it's still there going back and forth on the way home

Saw a bus stuck there a while back - totally grounded the left side on the curb. Wedged. Numpty.

 

[Andrew_P]

I was naughty and drafted a tipper lorry this morning, for at least a mile.

I was having a recovery ride yesterday afternoon until the last 4 miles. Closed down another cyclist waited to brow of the hill and gave it full beans, the bastard hung on to me for a mile meaning I had to keep on giving it in to the headwind. I didn't need to look I could hear the music coming from his phone, not sure why people do that... Don't think either my legs nor my ego would survive commuting in London.

The whole ride both in the morning and most of the afternoon I had been cursing my HR strap as my average HR was so low, but the last 4 miles proved it was working properly, and its mostly downhill.

 

[Cycleconvert]

Cloudy commute this morning with a headwind, still a pretty good run though and for the first time I didn't have any drivers coming too close. Drivers of South Oxfordshire, I salute you.

I take back everything I said. Nearly got killed by both a 4x4 last night and a taxi this morning. The Taxi clearly did it on purpose too as there was nothing coming the other way yet he felt the need to be 2" off my handlebars. Something that usually doesn't happen as i ride with double panniers which tends to make people give me a wider berth.

 

[HLaB]

Just a short slow 5.3miles, I've not changed the twisted link in the fixie chain yet I was going to go a shorter route again but its too beautiful a morning. I'll break the chain at lunchtime and add the new link. Back to the commute, the chain actually seemed to work OK, untill I stood up for a sprint over a railway bridge it then jumped like mad and I had to pull off into the footpath. Remarkably after that it seemed fine and never skipped onece for the last mile and a bit to work.

 

[MickL]

Going the canal again today I came across this and after being attacked couple of weeks ago by one I didn't fancy fighting 6 of them so there was no where to safely go past them so I turned round and went up on to the upper canal level (Galton Vally) and enjoy the rest of my commute.

 

[Frood42]

Lovely ride last night, weather stayed nice which was good (but kept to the target 20 miles rather than extending it).

This morning was another cold head wind, but was warmer than yesterday, so a bit more enjoyable.
My legs felt better this morning as well, thanks to the slow recovery rides yesterday.

That's 200miles this week (including 31 miles from Sunday).

@Glow worm - looks like a lovely route to take, especially in the lovely weather we are having recently.
@BSRU - SCR, what SCR? Looks like you left him way behind and flagging badly!
The wave to camera was a nice touch

 

[BSRU]

@BSRU - SCR, what SCR? Looks like you left him way behind and flagging badly!
The wave to camera was a nice touch

The best type of SCR, for me anyway

 

[DWiggy]

Yesterdays commute home was into a relentless, demoralising headwind, where did that come from?

 

[Glow worm]

@Glow worm - looks like a lovely route to take, especially in the lovely weather we are having recently.

Cheers- yes I do feel a bit spoilt sometimes. The only thing that could improve it would be the odd hill or two but you can't have everything I guess!

 

[Arjimlad]

[QUOTE 2490208, member: 1314"]Here's a pic of my legs:

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Whilst it would feel wrong to "like" that picture, and might be misinterpreted, I like the tattoos !