Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

Nothing really to note, but the ride home took me over the 1000 mile mark in a month. First time I've ever done it so chuffed to bits

You're flying mate..... I had 10 days off the bike.. but i'm back in business and on your tail....

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

I had 10 days off the bike.. but i'm back in business and on your tail....

I enjoyed your break probably more than you did, gave me a chance to catch you up Just stop smashing in those 120+ rides at the weekend ok?

 

[ianrauk]

I enjoyed your break probably more than you did, gave me a chance to catch you up Just stop smashing in those 120+ rides at the weekend ok?

in the diary for the next 3 weekends at least

 

[Colin B]

Second day of commuting on the MTB and I'm really enjoying it , decided to take the road route rather than off road to get used to traffic again after years always from riding .
So far its been great no close passes and anything that did happen was easily avoidable , but the one thing that really pleased me was I arrived at work at the same time as my tram and wasn't sweating like a nutter .
Going to leave the heavy boots at work and cycle with lighter shoes from now on and locking the forks made things better so no more public transport for me .

 

[KneesUp]

Not waiting for buses is great, isn't it? And the fares you save buy bike parts

 

[HLaB]

A direct commute for me this evening so I could get back for a proper ride with mates. The only thing I can remember is a nice lady pushing a double buggy, insisting I went through a lengthy pinchpoint first.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Well, my commute the last 2 days has started in the morning with signing out of, and ended in the evening signing back into a police cordon at the end of the street.

2 young lads are never going to play cricket in the street again, together with their baby sister, aunt and brave selfless grandmother who tried to save them from Sunday night's awful fire

So I can cope with the odd pothole and minor mishap for the moment, tapping some guy's wing mirror just seems less important

 

[slowmotion]

A concrete mixer truck left me a metre between the kerb and his wheel on a straight road. A few hundred metres later, Kensington High Street, I caught up with him as he was parking up to deliver his load to The Commonwealth Institute building site. Below, and though his cab window, I delivered a reasoned critique of his driving skills which he disputed.

I told him he was a w@nker and went on my way, honour intact

 

[MisterStan]

Well, my commute the last 2 days has started in the morning with signing out of, and ended in the evening signing back into a police cordon at the end of the street.

2 young lads are never going to play cricket in the street again, together with their baby sister, aunt and brave selfless grandmother who tried to save them from Sunday night's awful fire

So I can cope with the odd pothole and minor mishap for the moment, tapping some guy's wing mirror just seems less important

Horrible

 

[Dark46]

First commute on new bike and beat my record by 6 mins! Now looking forward to the ride home

 

[MisterStan]

Ticked over 900 miles for the month this morning, which is a PB for me. May go the long way home to bump it up a bit further....

 

[BSRU]

A very foggy 50km ride in this morning, everything facing forward was completely soaked by the fog.
Virtually all the cyclists I saw had no lights on(quite a few cars as well), often I had to get within 150 metres of traffic lights just to see what colour they were.

 

[BSRU]

With only 17 days of riding this month I will be quite content with my 1,300km(only 37km left), especially as I was unable to ride last weekend leaving me with 277km to ride in 3 days

 

[mangid]

Nothing too stunning, but I've now discovered the joys of CO2 ;-)

 

[ianrauk]

a chilly 6degrees when I left this morning but stuck with fingerless gloves and ss jersey as knew I would soon warm up as the sun rose higher, and so it was to be. Kept on hitting pockets of fog on the way.

I am starting to really enjoy the new bike now, it's definitely a little quicker then the Kona and a bit easier to throw around the traffic. Even a fellow commuter I see regular spotted it was a new bike.