Tales from today's commute....

[Beebo]

Crap ride in today.
I was overtaken by a scooter, 30 seconds later I went round a bend and found the scooter had been wiped out by a car coming from a side road. The driver wasnt moving and was face down in the middle of the road. 3 people were road seeing to him so there was nothing I could add to the situation.
Then on Tower Bridge I managed to run over some metal, this got stuck between my mud guard and tyre and has shredded the rear tyre. Lucky I work not too far away so walked the rest and will inspect th damage at lunch time, think I need a new tyre.

 

[Nocode]

Crap ride in today.
I was overtaken by a scooter, 30 seconds later I went round a bend and found the scooter had been wiped out by a car coming from a side road. The driver wasnt moving and was face down in the middle of the road. 3 people were road seeing to him so there was nothing I could add to the situation.
Then on Tower Bridge I managed to run over some metal, this got stuck between my mud guard and tyre and has shredded the rear tyre. Lucky I work not too far away so walked the rest and will inspect th damage at lunch time, think I need a new tyre.

Oh jeez, I hope the driver of the scooter is ok

Not great re: the tyre - but your bit about the scooter driver kinda puts things in perspective. I drove the missus to work last night, which is normally a fairly quiet drive but the roads were busy and everyone was rushing around like crazy people. I think it was late night xmas shopping or something, but everyone seems to rush about more this time of year and guess chances of accidents increase

 

[Edwards80]

Glad your OK, the skirts on the KA, I wouldn't call them bumpers, are only soft plastic held on by plastic clips, just after I got mine I had to buy a bag of clips from amazon and properly secure the near side one, half the clips were missing and I had to keep reattaching it.

Shhh! I believe I tore through steel with my epic man strength, don't spoil it for me!

Incident free ride in this morning, far more fun Last commute of the year today too.

 

[rb58]

Set a new speed record (for me) on my fixed last night. 33.53mph, which I calculate as a cadence of 167rpm. Not scary at all

 

[Hacienda71]

Quick commute for me this morning, it was quite warm for a change and dry.
Caught another cyclist going up one of the climbs on a rather nice Ti bike, only realised as a pulled alongside him that it was Paul who runs the lbs in Handforth. Said hello and then went on my way. Felt good despite having drunk far too much yesterday. Looking forward to riding home at lunch.

 

[Andrew_P]

Nice ride in this morning, lack of traffic due to schools being off. Three more days commuting until 2013 which will take me to 7200 miles for the year and 95% of those are travelling to and from work. Must cycle a bit more other than commuting next year.

 

[PBB]

Good commute home yesterday but disappointed that my new 1000lm front light was basically flat by the time I got home.So I got about half an hour from it

Compared to my PoundShop light which runs happily for 2-3 weeks on rechargeable Ni-Cads!

Roads were very quiet here in Cardiff this morning

 

[GrasB]

Tonight is going to be wet, very wet.

... only if I fall overboard while crossing the channel! Car commute close to Christmas means it's the cruise down to Italy to stay with the in-laws for few weeks

 

[GrasB]

Not a commute but utilitarian riding. Why is it the first day in Italy I always forget that while the 7km 450m descent might be quick the ascent to the house is going to be a slow one...

 

[BSRU]

Almost had a serious off on my way home for lunch, use a slightly different route to avoid the Christmas traffic.
Pulling away from lights behind a bus, in hindsight too close, suddenly a huge pothole appears, the sort that if I had ridden into it I would off over the handlebars, just managed to scoot around the outside of the cavernous hole.

 

[mark st1]

A sweaty commute 10 degrees what a strange country we are for weather

5 days of lie ins not caring what the weather is doing at supid o clock in the morning might even make tonight a 2 beer night to celebrate

Merry Christmas one and all

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Just noticed another broken spoke on the front wheel, so will be a straight and steady commute home. Think it is time to get a new front wheel, I am pretty sure that it is the original on the front and I have had the bike five or so years. Hopefully LBS will have one, but they had to order me a rear one when I changed that a few months ago.

 

[Matthew_T]

Argh!

Had a cyclist come flying past me with a "Good afternoon" as I was daydreaming. He really made me jump.
In my startled voice, I replied "Oooooh! Sorry, you made me jump then". To which he replied by raising his hand.

TBH I wasnt best pleased with his riding as I was in the middle of the cycle path and he just barged through. When I pass anyone on the path (pedestrians or other cyclists) I always tell them which side I am passing them on or say "Excuse me"). This guy didnt.

I tried to chase after him but he was half a mile away from me in 5 mins. I reached 21mph and still couldnt catch him.

Not best pleased with being scalped.

 

[redcard]

Argh!

Had a cyclist come flying past me with a "Good afternoon" as I was daydreaming. He really made me jump.
In my startled voice, I replied "Oooooh! Sorry, you made me jump then". To which he replied by raising his hand.

Matthew, don't quite know how to say this, so I'll just ask this: Is this you?

 

[Matthew_T]

Matthew, don't quite know how to say this, so I'll just ask this: Is this you?