Tales from today's commute....

[musa]

Slow annd steady on route home from work at Waterloo stn

Didnt wear any glasses so had to draft behind a bus. Not so good to ride in 23's

 

[ComedyPilot]

No probs riding home, till some twunt in a van decided to overtake me (doing 25 into a 30) as I indicated to turn right - with a car coming the other way.

Oncoming car was treated to a trip up the verge to avoid said twunt.

 

[Hacienda71]

Shifted my last appointment around this afternoon and came home a couple of hours early. I was getting paranoid that cycling back on 23c Pro4 Service Course tyres may develop challenging handling characteristics. Macclesfield was starting to white over with snow sticking on the roads. It is always worse than Wilmslow as it is a bit higher up, normally 1 degree colder or so. By the time I had come over Alderley the roads were clear, probably could have lasted out the day, but at least I had a commute home in the light.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very slow commute tonight. Only did just shy of 6 miles and all on the path. Cars were not moving anywhere on any of the roads, total chaos.

 

[BSRU]

Lovely ride home along shared paths, got over confident and when seeing a shared path with no tracks I thought I would give it a go. Unfortunately the snow was alot deeper than it looked bringing me to a sudden stop and falling over to the left, luckily the deep snow was very soft. I bit embarrassing but lots of fun.

 

[marshmella]

Roads fine at 6am despite light snow falling since yesterday afternoon. Different story at 1pm today heavy snow from about 10am .commute home involved pushing the bike halfway.not a fun commute home.

 

[PBB]

Quite a bit of snow here in Cardiff I took the old mtb with knobblies (I was still sliding about in the slushy bits though)

Took it easy and my usual 25 minute journey took well over an hour!

Really enjoyed it though.

 

[clarion]

Took the back roads as far as Tooting. Good to feel the studs bite even on the glassy surfaces. Main roads pretty clear of snow and motor traffic.

 

[apb]

Only just started snowing on the way home. So the road werent to icy. Cycling down hill with snow in my face was fun at first, I got over that quickly.

Lots of fun.

 

[HLaB]

What a difference a few hours makes; this morning it was mild was dry (around -1deg C) and with caution on the corners (no ills to worry about on my commute), I extended my AM commute. It started snowing around 2pm and never stopped! Just before 4pm, we got the order from the chief exec to go home. It could only have been a few cm's fall but if you judged from the condition of the roads it looked like 12inches So it was a more direct way home in anticipating the dovy bints that pulled out as I didn't want to brake hard on 23mm tyres.

 

[Matthew_T]

Met someone who follows me on YT today. He drafted me up a hill (and ended up with a PR) before I turned left. We had a little chat but I did most of the work (and I was on the steel racer as well).

 

[Guyincognito76]

Scandalous accusations!

It was a PR as it was my first time doing that climb using the app, and it would've been faster but there was someone riding a rust bucket in front of me.

 

[Matthew_T]

It was a PR as it was my first time doing that climb using the app, and it would've been faster but there was someone riding a rust bucket in front of me.

Only the front wheel is rusty.
I told you I wasnt on the best bike.

 

[Guyincognito76]

Only the front wheel is rusty.
I told you I wasnt on the best bike.

Maybe the other bike will claw back those four seconds I beat you by

 

[Matthew_T]

Maybe the other bike will claw back those four seconds I beat you by

Its on my to-do list for tomorrow.