Tales from today's commute....

[potsy]

Getting bored of the temp traffic lights in Cheadle. It turns the last part of the commute into a filter fest. Still, beats sitting in the car.

I detoured round them tonight, up to Edgeley via a park

 

[HLaB]

Light drizzle and a short 4.2miles; I'm glad I opted for a short one as it turned torrential once I was home. Oh and indirect thankyou to a RLJ at Shrewsbury Avenue; it took me a while to chase him down and show him the futility of his ways and that increase in speed probably helped me get home (well back in the flat) before the heavy stuff

 

[Supersuperleeds]

21 miles in the pouring rain, very very wet, but on the plus side the wind was fairly light and disc brakes are brilliant in the wet.

 

[paul04]

I have 8 days off work, so no commute today, but saying that, I think I would rather be in work with the list of diy jobs I have to do around the house

 

[MisterStan]

Very light rain but a fairly strong headwind made it hard work.
Took a corner a little too fast and lost the back end, ended up sliding on my bum. No harm done and the bike is ok too.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Very slippery roads tonight, witnessed two cars loose there back ends, one on a roundabout the other turning into the junction I was at. Any faster and he would have taken a lady out waiting to cross the road on the pavement. I had a couple of close calls one drain cover while braking school boy error, and one cornering, can't remember the roads being so slippy..........

 

[johnnyh]

got soaked, and very slippy, lost the backend at a junction - back tyre just span on the white paint, but managed to avoid looking a fool.
Enough with the wind too!

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Very light rain but a fairly strong headwind made it hard work.
Took a corner a little too fast and lost the back end, ended up sliding on my bum. No harm done and the bike is ok too.

bloody hell mate, hope all is okay

where was that?

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well lovely had wind all the way home, one of them really good ones which make it up hill all the way
and then some lovely drizzle as well as an added bonus.

 

[apb]

raining here this morning so it took me a while to get out the door, as had to look for a few things i haven't needed for a while.

Just as i was about to leave the missus comes out of the flat holding a hi-vis vest. I stood like a petulant teenager until i said "Oh ok."

soaked

 

[BSRU]

Lovely warm drizzle on the way in this morning.
Achieved a personal goal of 1000 miles in a month with two and a half days remaining , main problem as always is getting the time to be out and about.
So far 1,634.22 km with 15,487 metres of elevation gain.

 

[fossyant]

That was rather wet ! Had a cheery conversation with another damp bloke on his bike. Can't do that in a car !

 

[HLaB]

Had to do a survey this morning so quickly planned a shorter commute of about 11miles so I could get up at the same time and meet my colleague on site. Glad I did the shorter route just as I got there the rain forecasted for 10am started at 8:30am, on another day I'd still have 30mins (7-9miles) to go Conveniently when I got to site he had been a bit enthusiastic with the equipment and drained their batteries and we had to call it off before we got too wet

 

[MisterStan]

bloody hell mate, hope all is okay

where was that?

Outside Poundland, was turning left to follow the one way system - very greasy roads and the next thing I know i'm sliding on my 'arris. Just put new bar tape on and it's scuffed
I'm fine and so's the bike.

 

[G3CWI]

Well hat's off to anyone commuting by bike up here in Cheshire. It was filthy on the roads this morning and the forecast if for more of the same later. I drove in. I did pass several cyclists including an unexpected group of about six or seven on Pexhill Road. Looked like they were on some sort of tour.