Tales from today's commute....

[martint235]

A little wet. Not as bad as I was expecting. The major note was how my fitness has deterioated in just 1.5 weeks off the bike. Sweating like a sweaty thing in a sweat box when I got to work.

 

[BSRU]

One word, wet!

Three more words windy, dark, leaves.

 

[Frood42]

My commute was nice, it was dark, but the rain stayed away and the wind levels were low.

Only one thing of note on my commute, a very, very silly pedestrian decided to run from in front of a large vehicle across my path, I pulled the brakes on and gave a rather large shout, I still do not know how the pedestrian and I did not end up a heap on the floor, it was that close.

 

[HLaB]

Thought I'd change my commute this morning for a more on road route, to avoid the greasy leaf build up and did a route something like this. Despite the weather being a tad wet = extra congestion the driver's behaved themself though and the only very minor thing I remember was a MGiF on the short dual carriage way to town; that was a tad inconvenient having to pull out and sprint by them in the empty lane

 

[Glow worm]

Very blowy but thankfully dry coming in.Incredibly mild too though funny to see a few Cambridge folks wrapped up in thick coats, woolly hats and one bloke even wearing gloves. They're like the exact opposite of Geordies ! Anyways, should be a nice fast ride home shortly, with a favourable tail wind and no rain on the horizon. Only the supermarket run to spoil things!

 

[videoman]

Soaking wet after 10 happy miles in the rain but slightly drier coming home. Don't mind the rain its just the constant headwind irrespective of which direction I am going in. This afternoon I was pedalling going down hill just to maintain forward movement.

 

[kipster]

Damp and windy this morning and still a little dark when I left the house. No cars overtook. The rain had all but dried up for the ride home, but the wind had picked up a lot. That coupled with a week being lazy made the muscles burn a little more than normal. Some cars overtook, but nothing more interesting than that. Hope it isn't too wet tomorrow as I've left the overshoes in the office.

 

[glenn forger]

Cyclists who swerve off the pavement right in front of me piss me right off, no life-saver, not even a glance, naff all. Happened twice the last two days.

 

[Bill-H]

Very windy very very wet but loved it .
First time back on bike since my accident over a month ago,I can't believe how much my fitness has deteriated.

 

[Beebo]

Cycled past a guy tonight in greenwich with only the right hand crank, the left was busted. He had spd's on and was going at a fair pace considering his problems. Hope he didnt have too far to go.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Didn't have my multi-tool with me. Felt bad as I had to pass a folorn looking cyclist wheeling his bike sans-chain without being able to offer assistance

 

[stowie]

Went around the new Tottenham Hale layout today. Gyratory has been removed and two way traffic restored. Zero cycle facilities on road Southbound to "aid traffic flow". And boy had it seemed to have worked today. Gridlocked traffic all the way back to Stamford Hill.

Went around Bow Roundabout today instead of the flyover and witnessed someone trying to reverse back around the roundabout to exit down the closed A12 slip road - presumably after seeing the queues into Stratford. This was accompanied by a lot of car horns and gesticulating by car drivers. It is at times like this that I cannot help but be somewhat smug as I cycle past the chaos.

Saw a police horse trotting along CS2 near Mile End Park and a numpty pulled out in front of me in Walthamstow causing me to brake so hard the cycle slew sideways. A brief discussion was had where I shouted and the driver had the expression I see on less intelligent sheep. Shook me up a bit, lucky I had slowed a bit at the approach to the junction since a car had exited before her.

 

[HLaB]

Totally mucked up the commute this morning, only 11.7 miles but when I got into the office I started to sweat the proverbial buckets. Got asked 'is my jacket not waterproof ?', its bone dry its just sweat

 

[Leodis]

1st full commute in 3 weeks after been knocked off, not the best commute to do on a new bike and poor weather but least I got the SKS fitted and I am not too wet arriving at work. Roll on return.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Not an ideal commute today. I got a puncture, then found that the spare tube's valve was faulty. Then another cyclist turned up and generously helped me by donating a spare road bike tube he had (he was on a mountain bike, so I got lucky, there). Then a few km later, the road bike tube went flat! I tried pumping it up a few times, but never got more than about 0.5km before it went flat again. So I gave up and called a taxi-van to take me home. It took 30 minutes to get to me, and cost me $55 to get me the rest of the way home (I was at least 15km from home at that point). Oh yes, and it was raining a lot.

Tomorrow, I'm taking the road bike to work instead of my usual Vivente tourer, so hopefully the road bike will stay puncture-free until I can fix up the tourer.