Tales from today's commute....

[Supersuperleeds]

Not going to get a lot of commuting in this week as I have to drive tomorrow and have to be home as early as possible on Friday.

So started the week with a 51 miler, was a bit cold at times, bumped into another rider that I haven's seen for a while, he thought I'd given up. Rode with him for a couple of miles, he'd just come back from doing the coast to coast and is moving to America next month

EDIT:
Good news! Boss just told me our meeting is now at our offices, so back on the bike tomorrow now, God how I've missed it

 

[Origamist]

Well the service to the bike was a bit more expensive than I anticipated. The rear wheel was borked - hairline cracks around the spoke holes on the rim. Ended up buying a wheelset on Fri evening!

However, with a new BB, chain, cassette, wheels and tyres - the bike felt great this morning. It helped that the roads were less busy, the flower show was finished and the temperature was a bit cooler.

 

[BSRU]

bumped into another rider that I haven's seen for a while, he thought I'd given up

 

[MickL]

After a very long time, I did my commute down the canal. 9 miles of traffic free goodness, and even better I didn't see or run into any Canadian geese. A rather pleasant ride in.

 

[EthelF]

The numpties were out in force this morning. I had to slap the side of a van which decided to overtake me through a blind S-bend & started edging towards me as naturally enough oncoming traffic appeared.
Then I was almost sideswiped as the cyclist I was overtaking decided to turn right without bothering to look, let alone indicate.
But the piece de resistance was a cabbie who clearly thought Chelsea Bridge was not sufficiently gridlocked by the HGV trying to turn right off the embankment onto the bridge southbound, completely blocking all northbound traffic. Grosvenor Road eastbound was closed from there, so the bright cabbie decided to go into the opposite carriageway to pass in front of the HGV, to carry on northbound. Except there was another truck beyond the HGV, obscured from view, leaving no space to get back into the northbound lane. So the cabbie found himself facing 2 lanes of oncoming southbound traffic at the lights just in front of him, while blocking both trucks to his left, with nowhere to go.
I should have liked to have stayed to watch what happened next, but alas I had to get to work, and besides, I had no popcorn with me.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Blimey 9 days off and I feel like a right fat lardy.
Loss of speed and very sluggish.
Hopefully the body will be back to normal by Friday!

 

[fossyant]

Back to the commute after 3 weeks off sick. Still feel knackered. Happy to report I managed to get into the secure parking of our new office. Down side is the stupid vertical stands mean the whole bike's weight is sat on the rear guard, so I see some bodging of the stand to be done.

The lockers are crap. Even with my home made rail and a dinky USB fan in the locker, my kit came out damp and pongy as there is no fresh air flow. All the other cyclists weren't happy, so off has been fired a few emails. They spent over £10k per person per car parking space, and bugger all on the cyclists who make it one of the Greenest Universities in the UK helping cut the carbon footprint.

The new building is lovely though !

31 miles for the day

 

[Torvi]

guy choked his car three times in a row while i slowly overtook him

 

[Archeress]

Back on the bike today after a week of. I felt so tired last week. Still building up my working hours but this week my lunch was extended by 30 minutes back to the normal 1 hour and my finish time pushed back by 30 minutes, so I'm not actually working any extra hours this week. On the way home I passed a crashed motorbike with police tape round it near the M5 junction at Cribbs.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I raced another bicycle commuter this morning . He was going relatively slowly up a hill, so I powered on past him, then a few 100m later I found he was chasing me, so I stepped up the pace again. He overtook me at the next hill, then I caught up to him about 1km later just before I had to turn left and he was going straight on. The jury is out on which of us would have lasted longer before blowing up, had the competition continued. At one point, we both had to stop for a red light, and I could see he was breathing very heavily, but trying not to show it. I'm so ashamed!

 

[Grendel]

Cultins Road near Edinburgh Park station (just off the A71) was closed off by Police. Some debris on the road and a bike propped against a wall. Looked nasty.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Steady ride this morning, arm warmers came out as I was a bit nippy. Had a couple of nice scalps too but overall was a relatively slow ride.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

As my brother keeps telling me, I am a shandy drinking southern softy, it was a bit chilly first thing, stuck with the ss top still though

 

[ianrauk]

Damn I nearly got taken out by a flying buzzy thing. Descending a hill at about 37mph, head down going for it (tis only a short hill in Bromley but can get a decent speed) saw the buzzing thing just that little too late as it kamikazed into my schnozza at full whack. Made my eye's water I can tell you. Hope it has the mother of all headaches.

Apart from that, a lovely warm ride in. I wasn't going for any personal bests today but still managed a good time.

 

[ianrauk]

As my brother keeps telling me, I am a shandy drinking southern softy, it was a bit chilly first thing, stuck with the ss top still though

I've never met a shandy drinker and I've lived down south most of my life. However when I lived in Knutsford for a little while I knew 2 of 'em. So there