Tales from today's commute....

[Nocode]

Just as David said above, stunning morning. So nice to be getting daylight back on the morning commutes. Just wish I had the same on the way home!

However, saw some stupid RLJ'er skip the lights at the top of Bromley and head right down the hill just as the traffic started moving from the left. He then proceeded to RLJ every light between there and Lewisham at which point I overtook him. He wasn't even adept at RLJ as he nearly got taken-out numerous times and did that stupid thing where they push-out across the yellow box skipping from island to island. Idiot.

 

[tadpole]

-1 at the start of my ride today, the ice on the cycle path caught me out on the very first corner, almost an off, but not quite. So that's twice I've nearly hit the tarmac I nearly hit a duffer last night as he danced one way, then the other, and back again, at my warning shout. He picked, as you would expect, to stop dancing right in front of me, so I locked up the back wheel in panic, but lucky it meant as the back of the bike started to over take the front, my front wheel ended up pointing between the dancing man and his larger than life girlfriend, so I stopped breaking and shot between the two with a good foot to spare. Not sure who was more scared him or me.

 

[subaqua]

First ride for 2 weeks today. Still got a bit of a cough but it's manageable.

1st day off for me today. but too ill to go in to work . plus have lost voice. might stripdown and refurb youngests bike instead.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

My legs hurt.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My legs hurt.

cycling to work via Algeria will probably do that!

 

[Andrew_P]

Lovely!

 

[BSRU]

Sunny, cold and the last day for a while of quiet roads(schools back next week here).

 

[apb]

Another sunny day up here, have to enjoy them when you can.

Hopefully get the little man on the bike this w/e for the first time this year.

Have a good weekend.

 

[Steve Saunders]

Nice ride in this morning. 5c with light winds. The turbo tyre is still on the road bike so took the Boardman with Marathon Winters again. Took 3 minutes off my PB for that combination - avg 18.5mph for the 20 mile commute - flying. Was kind of spoilt a little by the fact that I managed to melt my base-layer on the radiator when I was drying it :-( oops.

 

[Beebo]

Sunny, cold and the last day for a while of quiet roads(schools back next week here).

My kids are off next week, so the roads will be quiet near me.

 

[Twilkes]

Please don't sit on my back wheel and then whinge when you're waved to overtake - if it's not safe to pass then hang back a couple of yards until it is.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Icey this morning at 7am just took it steady on the road bike, nice and sunny out now. No deflations yay, been blighted by the buggers for 2 weeks!

 

[Davywalnuts]

Double puncture this morning from a violent hit to a big pot hole this morning, on the Crooked Billet Roundabout, Staines.

I've know about this hole and so had managed to avoid it before, but the layout of this roundabout just invites the waiting traffic to pull out on you, so, as I had that which led to a momentary distraction, the pot hole got me. Better than a vehicle.. well, maybe.

It was that much of a jolt, that the new Cateye speedo had jumped onto the next screen!

#Annoyed

 

[HLaB]

I was going to take a short route as it was my first AM commute on fix (see my thread for details ), looked out of the window and with half term ending next week I went for a proper route. Orton Mere was a bit icy but it was white ice but other than that it was a great commute, not my fastest but not my slowest and given the start and fixed wheel I was quite happy. I overshot by half a wheel a couple of stop lines but it wasn't bad and I got one bloke who misjudged my speed and pulled out but after driving parallel with me for a couple of seconds he dropped back and despite having multiple opportunities to safely overtake sat behind me for the next bit

 

[GrasB]

Slightly surreal situation this morning:

Enter roundabout going straight on & see a van steaming up to the rab to my left. Feather brakes but the driver does a near emergency stop to pull up at the give way line. Looks at me, waits for me to get almost on top of entrance way then burns off causing me to pull hard into the centre of the rab & hope the car behind me can avoid me. He does & wave of sorry/thanks to the driver behind. Against better judgement follow the van, which was turning into an industrial area, to have a little word... it goes like this:
Me: Excuse me, do you think your driving was okay pulling onto the roundabout?
Him: Woha? **** off
Me: You know yo
Car driver: What the **** were you doing? You almost ran over that cyclists. I almost ran him over avoiding you! You're a **** & **** disgrace. You **** **** head jerk! Oi! Don't you ****...
Me: I'll leave you to it then?
I ride off leaving the car driver ranting at the van drive.