Tales from today's commute....

[Twelve Spokes]

Ok till Mile End today although I felt a bit rough at the start of the commute,also faced with a headwind.A w-panzer passes me close so I pull out into a more dominating position as it's turned into a rugby scrum but with cars.An asian boy racer as opposed to a Caucasian boy racer toots his horn,Immediately I get the hump and shout it's a ferking cycle lane.Catch the clown up and pass and repeat the above at shouting level but without the "ferking".Noticed two of his wheels were in the cycle lane after he passed me as I wondered if I had over-reacted or whether I was right.So I get past him and stop at the lights behind the w-panzer which is turning left.Let him do his left and went on my merry way.Had no more trouble which quite surprised me.

Coming back,felt awful but managed to get a draft from Mile End to Maryland.Got to Thatched House with cops there and a jeep with a wheel missing and at a funny angle.Ride back not too bad and quite fast.Recovered a bit after Mile End.

 

[BSRU]

Very short commute in this morning due to suffering after my first alcoholic drinks of 2014 on Saturday night, such good weather as well.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Yesterday, the temperature got to an uncomfortable 41.5°, followed by an overnight minimum of 21, making sleep sweaty and difficult. The ride to work was warmish, and the temperature skyrocketed to 35 by 11am, then voila! The wind changed to come from Port Philip Bay and one of Melbourne's famous cool changes came in, the temperature dropped 8°C in 1 hour, and by the time I rode home, was sitting on about 20. It's now 18.5, and I'm looking forward to sleeping well tonight. I love Melbourne weather sometimes .

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Quite windy and cold this morning, didn't bother with my ear warmers and by the time I got to work was suffering with some nasty earache. My panniers were stuffed full and the wind was blasting off them giving some interesting bike directional changes. But I suppose at least it wasn't raining.

 

[HLaB]

Nice quiet commute in the sunlight, especially as I got up before the school run chaos. What was nice a neighbour came and collected his bike when I was collecting/ faffing, we passed again on town bridge, he must have cycled sub 2 miles to get there in the time I'd cycled 4 :-)

 

[fossyant]

Windy and dry !!

 

[wisdom]

Windy and dry on the fylde coast as well.Nice to ride in the dry makes a nice change.Not for long though there's more coming our way

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Disappointing day, due to meeting up with a family member I was in the car but I got a phone call this afternoon and it was put back, so I've used the car on what could prove to be the best day to use the bike this week and all for nothing

 

[HLaB]

Nice to cycle home in near daylight for a change, perfect view of the mini pulling out from an access on my right. Give them their due they remaimed parallel tome not ccutting in, even with cars coming straight at us, at which point I decided it was wise to drop back; they continued on their parallel route

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

First ride on the bike for 11 days, it was great to be back out. Nothing of any interest happened, span a little more than usual, just enjoyed the feeling of being back on two wheels.

 

[potsy]

Today's commute was a near 6 mile walk (3 each way) to my new job, I have learnt today though that they have a bike lock-up and a key was given to me, cycle commutes re-start tomorrow

Oh, and despite being on foot I still got close passed, this time by a div on a moped going through the park

 

[400bhp]

Today's commute was a near 6 mile walk (3 each way) to my new job, I have learnt today though that they have a bike lock-up and a key was given to me, cycle commutes re-start tomorrow

 

[donnydave]

Tale from tomorrows commute - brilliant after I replaced cassette, big chainring and chain. Left it too long and suffered skipping rubbish gears for the last few weeks. A mate at work told me to stop whinging and get everything changed. Cost less than a full tank of fuel and dont normally think twice about that, daft when you think about it, ill never suffer a knackered drive train again!

 

[400bhp]

Starting to get a "click, click click" sound at the cranks. BB must be on its way out.

My effin pump came off today - right in the outside lane approaching a busy r'about. No chance of getting back to it quickly. I had to do a full lap of the r'about and jump across the centre reservation to see if it was still intact - which it was, albeit squished Oh well, will have to pull an identical one off the hybrid.

 

[fribbleblib]

On a shared cyclepath / footpath between playing fields and coming towards me was a young lad on a scootery motorbike sort of thing. Shouldn't have been there, but at least he was wearing a helmet.......... unlike his female passenger who was squished on the bike in between him and the handlebars!