Tales from today's commute....

[potsy]

Another decent day for being on the bike, that's 3 of my 4 days done, tomorrow is a car day.

One nobber on the way in, narrow-ish section of road, 30mph limit and he decides to overtake the car in front and took nearly all of my lane in the process (they were both coming towards me) had to squeeze myself into the gutter to avoid him, pillock

 

[rb58]

I passed two people riding Van Nichs on my way home last night, and one riding an Enigma this morning. I must live in a very affluent area.

 

[summerdays]

Warm but seemed to be quick route today, the block who sat on my back wheel on Monday was back - this time for a shorter distance and dropped me at the same point. Rather weirdly after I passed UWE and headed down to the MOD roundabout I caught him up, and because I nip onto the road there I ended up overtaking him (forgot to stick my tongue out though). I guess he must just sit behind people and doesn't realise when they start going slower.

Finished with a lovely dash on the Gloucester Road with lots of cyclists between two ASL's!

 

[BSRU]

A lovely 60km ride in, although the sun was a bit blindingly bright a few times.

Witnessed some awful and dangerous high speed tail gating and later three cars red light jumping.

 

[KneesUp]

So jealous of you all today. I had to be in early to wait for a delivery that I need my car to get home, so no cycling. Yesterday I needed to collect something else straight after work, so no cycling yesterday either. And I need to take the wheels from the bike I'm rebuilding to the bike shop to be trued, but yesterday I was too late to call in, and today I was at work before the bike shop opened - not sure when I'll get chance as I'm busy at the weekend, and the window where I leave late enough for the bike shop to be open but early enough that I'm not late for work is quite narrow. I'm looking out the window at all the people cycling to work and hating them all - especially as most of them are going the way that is very slightly downhill so it looks totally effortless!

 

[BSRU]

So jealous of you all today. I had to be in early to wait for a delivery that I need my car to get home, so no cycling. Yesterday I needed to collect something else straight after work, so no cycling yesterday either. And I need to take the wheels from the bike I'm rebuilding to the bike shop to be trued, but yesterday I was too late to call in, and today I was at work before the bike shop opened - not sure when I'll get chance as I'm busy at the weekend, and the window where I leave late enough for the bike shop to be open but early enough that I'm not late for work is quite narrow. I'm looking out the window at all the people cycling to work and hating them all - especially as most of them are going the way that is very slightly downhill so it looks totally effortless!

A good excuse for a spare set of wheels or a spare bike

 

[KneesUp]

A good excuse for a spare set of wheels or a spare bike

I do have another bike - the wheels are off the one I want to ride instead though I currently commute on a knobbly-tyred MTB, but when I get my 700c wheels straight (and fit a back brake) I can use my smooth tyred, drop bar commuter/tourer/hybrid/light off-road/thing bike I've built. And begin stripping down the MTB so I can rebuild that and use it for what it was designed for

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Nice ride in today deliberately not pushing it because of the training yesterday but still felt well paced and a decent average on the computer. Seemed to be significantly more cycles on the road today I normally see maybe half a dozen and today was easily in excess of 20. I guess they read the BBC thing on how scary the roads are and decided to prove them wrong.

I now exchange 'good mornings' with two of the four crossing patrols I pass.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Gutted, missed opportunity for miles this morning. I remember turning my alarm clock off at 4am thinking "I'll get up in a minute". 1 3/4 hrs later and my chance had gone. Had a pretty direct 25 miler and out of frustration upped the pace to just under 21mph av. Perfect weather and here's me being a lazy sod grrrr Efforts must be stepped up!

 

[Origamist]

More great weather... 15C this morning and bright sunshine. Might extend the commute tonight as the forecast is looking less appealing from Thurs...

 

[Stephen C]

Lovely commute today, gorgeous weather, slight tail wind...all until a b*stard of a wasp decided it wanted to have a close look at my chest!!!! Ow!!!

 

[GrasB]

On a single track road car A charges round a blind too fast clockwise at the same time Car B charges round the same bend to fast anti-clockwise. In this case the speeds were about 20mph. I was concerned for about 10 seconds before they started f'ing & blindin' at each other... then I just laughed & rode on.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I had the clips and straps equivalent of a clipless moment tonight, head of a line of traffic, mostly from where I work, at a roundabout and found not only could I not sustain the track stand but I couldn't get a foot out either and down I went , its been that long since I did that I've forgotten when it was, its my first fall since 2007, bruised hip a chunk out my elbow but the bike seems OK apart from a twisted brake lever, I'll check it over later.

 

[videoman]

Had a bit of a crash this afternoon when cycling home. With approx. 3 miles to go out of the 10 miles I saw a cyclist coming the opposite way on a cycle path coming down hill way too fast and as he saw me (I was wearing a bright yellow cycling top) he locked up and hit me knocking me off my bike and he went flying over the top. He got up, picked his bike up and said are you OK to which I repeated not really lying on the floor then he jumped on his bike and shot off. I gathered my composure and found my body was still intact but my back wheel is severly buckled with broken spokes, front wheel buckled and front mudguard shattered. Looking on the bright side at least I am OK apart front some grazing to my knee and an inprint from my watch on my wrist.

 

[summerdays]

Had a bit of a crash this afternoon when cycling home. With approx. 3 miles to go out of the 10 miles I saw a cyclist coming the opposite way on a cycle path coming down hill way too fast and as he saw me (I was wearing a bright yellow cycling top) he locked up and hit me knocking me off my bike and he went flying over the top. He got up, picked his bike up and said are you OK to which I repeated not really lying on the floor then he jumped on his bike and shot off. I gathered my composure and found my body was still intact but my back wheel is severly buckled with broken spokes, front wheel buckled and front mudguard shattered. Looking on the bright side at least I am OK apart front some grazing to my knee and an inprint from my watch on my wrist.

Oh dear, not very nice on more than one account. Watch out for him in future, if that's your regular route!