Tales from today's commute....

[Blurb]

Witnessed second street arrest in a week in Kilburn. Might be time to adjust my route....

 

[potsy]

Another slog against the cold easterly done, think it's eased a bit from yesterday.
Started snowing again as i got near work

 

[glenn forger]

Witnessed second street arrest in a week in Kilburn. Might be time to adjust my route....

Saw one on London Street a few weeks ago, teatime, quite a well-dressed gentleman is being bundled to the floor by cops, he shouts:

"You PCO's are oppressing me!"

The cop responded wearily:

"PCSO's"

 

[Shut Up Legs]

My commute ended with a bag of internet-ordered goodies on my front door mat, courtesy of CRC! These included:

• a grease gun (Exus) ;
• a set of 3 good-quality tyre levers (X-Tools steel core) ;
• a pair of cycling gloves (Endura Strike, and they fit perfectly) that should keep my hands warm and toasty for those chilling descents down Mt Donna Buang in the middle of Winter* ; and
• another BB as a spare for the one I just installed on my bike (and which is working very nicely on my last 2 commutes ) .

All for under $105AU including postage. Very nice.

* Yeah, I know, it's a bit crazy, but over here snow's a bit of a novelty, so we actually seek it out in Winter.

 

[400bhp]

bloody snowing here this morning

Thinking of trying to have an easy commute today, but it's impossible with a strong headwind and snow.

 

[BSRU]

-1.5 and some very light snow but some guy cycling in shorts

 

[GrasB]

'only' -1C but felt colder than is has been at the same temp or lower. Bonus was light winds & bone dry roads for the most part. So I could let rip & just be careful over anything that looked vaguely damp. A great ride into work

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Trying to snow again in Leicester, spikes still on the bike, though the roads were very dry. Just over 28 miles of very cold and very hard work. Only another 53 miles to hit my first 1000 mile month.

 

[fossyant]

Bombing run 3 postponed. Snow and a few glasses of wine last night !

 

[3outof5]

Erm, you know that question I asked about clips and 'does everyone fall off?' - well I did, about 5 minutes in . Luckily was zero miles per hour on to the pavement. I had plenty of time, the brain simply refused to compute the required action . Anyway no harm done, rest of ride went fine and could definitely feel the '360-degreeness' of the pedalling.

 

[DWiggy]

Early clippless falls are around the 0mph speed usually stopping at junctions, lights etc ...uber embarrassing

 

[jarlrmai]

Clipless are brilliant, but don't start "pulling up" on the upstroke though, and clip out on your favoured resting side whenever you think you could need to stop (filtering, turning etc)

 

[lejogger]

Three years of commuting by bicycle, and this morning saw my first ever incident of nose loogie landing directly on top of my pannier and remaining there for the duration of my ride.

Disappointing, but also slightly amazed that I made it this far.

 

[GrasB]

... and clip out on your favoured resting side whenever you think you could need to stop (filtering, turning etc)

Not a good idea really, it programmes in the fact your foot is lose when you need it rather than the correct reaction of seamlessly dis-engaging at any point. This means when you really do need to release the cleat you actually have to think about it which in turn ends up with you on the floor.

 

[Kookas]

Clipless are brilliant, but don't start "pulling up" on the upstroke though, and clip out on your favoured resting side whenever you think you could need to stop (filtering, turning etc)

What's wrong with pulling up on the upstroke? I have toe cages and always make an effort to pull up when I need to accelerate quickly.