Not really negative more positive in thinking next year I can do more.Oooh, negative thoughts man! I think that's an excellent record and you can't help the torrents or the small peeps, and you achieved all that with 6 days off!
Tales from today's commute....
- Thread starter martint235
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Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Hurrah! I was just being a bit of a cheerleader for some reason
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
OH has injured her ankle so I have to be her commute taxi driver
She's managed to chip a bit off her medial malleolus... by side stepping the clutch. Apparently she finds the clutch very heavy so when coming to a halt instead of stepping off the clutch she side steps it. This time her foot wasn't properly on the brake pedal or some thing like that & so the pedal rising with the not insignificant clamping force of the clutch spring bashed the hard aluminium clutch pedal arm into her ankle.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Much warmer than I expected, long sleeve top was a bit warm. Enjoying the new commute route (about 70% of my old route plus a new bit). One tricky right turn over tram tracks at the bottom end of Barlowmoor Road - I tent to ride straight over them, then do a sharp right turn, although this almost failed yesterday as I went steaming through, and realised at the last minute I was supposed to turn right.
Our 'drying lockers' have been ordered and a space found for them. Found the disabled loos, normal loos and staff shower all 'in use' this morning so went in the male changing only to see another colleague about to pop in the shower (two shower heads - it's a bit too cosy). He asked if I was having a shower, said no, have my baby wipes. He said phew, that's OK then.
Our 'drying lockers' have been ordered and a space found for them. Found the disabled loos, normal loos and staff shower all 'in use' this morning so went in the male changing only to see another colleague about to pop in the shower (two shower heads - it's a bit too cosy). He asked if I was having a shower, said no, have my baby wipes. He said phew, that's OK then.
Spartak
Powered by M&M's
- Location
- Bristolian
Dark this morning when I set off ! Uneventful commute but very pleasant, usual route passing the UWE, AIrbus, BAWA, Blaise Castle & over Avonmouth Bridge.
MickeyBlueEyes
Eat, Sleep, Ride, Repeat.
- Location
- Derbyshire
Great commute this morning. About 10 miles or so in a guy in Garmin team kit pulls in behind me, we have a quick chat about where we're heading etc, and for the next 13 or so miles we're in the same direction. He said he's making the most of a day off and feeling fresh he was going for a blast about. I explain I'm just having a morning bimble to work and with that he asks if I fancy a race and starts to pick up the pace. "If you like then" was my reply followed by "goodbye" and then proceeded to muller him within about a half mile! He caught me up not far before I got to work about 15 miles later and amazingly rode past in a heap of sweat giving me the expletives! I just knocked it down one more and laughed on my way past giving him a thumbs up. I believe I may have completely ruined his day, his week and his cycling year...... mu hu ha ha ha! Hope I see him again 
glenn forger
Guest
" laughed on my way past giving him a thumbs up."
that's a five point deduction from me. Don't acknowledge them, just steam past, controlling your breathing.
that's a five point deduction from me. Don't acknowledge them, just steam past, controlling your breathing.
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
I took a different route out of Coventry last night, going west to Tile Hill. To my amazement the road across Hearsall Common has been resurfaced, and is now a smooth unblemished sheet of flat grey tarmac. I used to regularly commute this way, and the surface was like a moonscape with deep bike-swallowing craters and wheel-grabbing ruts, on a narrow road that was shared with impatient rush-hour cars and buses. It’s been a long time coming.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
I had front wheel wobble on my commute home today, due to uncontrollable shivering 
. Melbourne's weather took a sudden turn for the worse, with about a 10°C temperature drop in an hour, followed by solid rain and strong winds. I was unprepared for this, and rode home in just short lycra pants and short-sleeved jersey. Despite my best efforts to keep warm by just pedaling harder, the combination of cold, wind and wet got to me. After I got home and had a hot shower, it still took me a while to stop shivering. But my record of all bicycle commutes for over 5 years remains unbroken 
. No wimping out on public transport for me.
. Melbourne's weather took a sudden turn for the worse, with about a 10°C temperature drop in an hour, followed by solid rain and strong winds. I was unprepared for this, and rode home in just short lycra pants and short-sleeved jersey. Despite my best efforts to keep warm by just pedaling harder, the combination of cold, wind and wet got to me. After I got home and had a hot shower, it still took me a while to stop shivering. But my record of all bicycle commutes for over 5 years remains unbroken . No wimping out on public transport for me.
MisterStan
Label Required
- Location
- Out there somewhere
Roads were lovely and quiet round our way. Gotta love the school hols. Still with all that room, had several close passes this morning, including a couple from lorries.
KneesUp
Guru
Today I learned how much of a difference there is braking downhill between:
a) a mountain bike doing c. 20mph with 2" tyres on badly made road with brakes that aren't that well adjusted
b) my other bike doing c. 30mph with 38mm tyres on a newly relaid road with brakes that are well adjusted
The result was a huge a very entertaining skid. It was like being a kid again - glad there was no traffic though
a) a mountain bike doing c. 20mph with 2" tyres on badly made road with brakes that aren't that well adjusted
b) my other bike doing c. 30mph with 38mm tyres on a newly relaid road with brakes that are well adjusted
The result was a huge a very entertaining skid. It was like being a kid again - glad there was no traffic though
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
Funny, isn't it. On Monday, my morning commute was by far the quietest it's been in the six weeks I've been doing this route (Victoria to Teddington). So quiet, in fact, I almost wondered if I'd woken up to a 28 Days Later type scenario. But it was very fast as a result, which was nice. Today, however, it was slow going all the way due to unusually heavy traffic. Huh?
Anyway, I got to indulge in a nice bit of SCR through Richmond Park today at least. Cruised past a chap on the slight incline from Roehampton Gate to Sheen Cross. He was on a very nice looking bike, didn't look closely enough to see exactly what but fitted-with-Di2 levels of nice. And wearing full Ichiban Tri Team kit. I wasn't particularly pushing it but nor was he, I guess. But he seemed to take affront at me passing him, because moments after I turned left at Sheen Cross, he came steaming past me at full pelt. "Oh! A challenge!" I thought. And I do like a challenge. So I set off after him. Thought I wasn't going to catch him at first but I gradually reeled him in until it got to the point where I could have passed him but decided to do a Valverde instead and sat on his wheel until just before the ballet school then powered through. Sweet.
If it was anyone on this forum, I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist.
