Tales from today's commute....

[Ollie W]

My commute ended abruptly when I opened the bike shed to find... no bike. It's been nicked and we think we know who by. Police called but I doubt I'll get the bike back and we'd just moved house so the home insurance hadn't sorted themselves out. So gutted.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

My commute ended abruptly when I opened the bike shed to find... no bike. It's been nicked and we think we know who by. Police called but I doubt I'll get the bike back and we'd just moved house so the home insurance hadn't sorted themselves out. So gutted.

My bike has pride of place in my kitchen.

My workmate has his bike in his garage and that has been nicked recently also.He was gutted also,can't say I blame him.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

Well the ride in on the Saturday was fine till the last half mile.So I positioned myself at the front of the vehicle on the right to go onto Waterloo roundabout.We had been on a detour right up to Vauxhall Bridge from the Blackfriars overpass and back via Lambeth Bridge/Westminster Bridge and York Road.Doing it legally instead of cutting up onto the pavement to gain acess to Waterloo.My workmate was hard on the right but I didn't like that position as previous experience tells me that the local penis will squeeze pass yet again and I do hate that.Lights change and 4x4 on the left sticks his foot on the accelerator and I can't tell where the hell he is going,whether he is going left right or about to take off(He's actually targeted for my rear wheel as I look behind and am aware of what's going on behind me and try to get out of the way).So I remark on the fact of no indications at all as im going round the roundabout to which he slows his panzer (just as he's entering Waterloo Bridge),offending the moped rider right behind him,because he wants to argue the point,then there's me telling him just drive.So off I go.The whole point is though I must have held him up for a few seconds and this must have offended him enormously.It's funny how they go into one and drive like idiots.Yes I can see now my position was $h1t so I will probably use different tactics to avoid the morons.

No probs on the return.

 

[BSRU]

Woke up an hour late, consequently skipped breakfast, misty and drizzle during the ride, the PF visits while I'm out in the countryside but apart from that an excellent ride in

 

[fossyant]

I believe there is traffic chaos near home. Looked OK to me when I set of - very nearly phoned the wife to say it was OK. The road works must have commenced after I set off. Should be an entertaining return later !

Fast run in, little wind. No meetings with pastries today , although I've just found out one later has 'lunch' as we have visitors. Bonus !! I will await more colleagues on 'diets' so I can eat their share.

 

[Spartak]

Left home at 4:30 this morning & the temperature was 17 degrees
Short sleeve jersey & shorts !

Good ride in with very little wind either !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Game of chicken with a hare this morning, fearless bloody thing, I braked, he laughed and hopped into the hedgerow.

 

[Linford]

A lovely uneventful commute which was only disrupted by one close pass by a HGV

However, it got better by Strava listing 3 Personal Bests on segments of my ride in

 

[HLaB]

Just a slow recovery commute for me today, I was 5 mins later (Monday Morning ) so there was chaos down Oundle Road (certainly made me glad I wasn't in a car), however the chaos on Oundle Road meant the normal chaos at the Rivergate Gyratory was non existant and I had the three lanes almost to my self. Only dissappointment when I woke up it was blue sky by the time I got out of the door 45mins later it was grey and misty

 

[Frood42]

Took the bike for an extended commute again this morning (30 miles), downside being up at 05:15 (still dark).
South Woodford -> to the end of Chelsea Embankment -> then back to work at Ilford.
http://app.strava.com/activities/81975827

Still shorts weather, although I was drenched in sweat when I got to work, which gave me the chills when I got off the bike.
I am really hoping the kit dries off properly before the ride home.

Other than that, it was a fairy pleasent ride, and it's probably better to ride on the main roads of London, which are well lit, than some of the back roads around Epping.

 

[Kies]

[QUOTE 2668469, member: 1314"]On Friday I saw a young Sikh bloke with a turban on CS7. Which is a first on the commute. This morning I saw another young Indian bloke, with all the roadie gear, talking into his blue tooth in proper Punjabi – a proper old country Indian accent, not an anglified one. Which was another first on the commute.

Warm and humid this morning, roads quiet.

No more cycling, after this evening, until Friday now, as I’m in Glasgowcitizenland.[/quote]

You should come back to the motherland (Southall) - plenty of turbans :-)

 

[Linford]

I was in the Brent/Edmonton area on Saturday. Some bloke wearing a Turban came past me in a new model BMW X5.
Don't see them being worn up my way among the Asian community.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Another dull commute in this morning, weather wise, waiting to bump into the car driver which I had a bit of a mental at last week. I usually see the car now and again. Going to see if they try and run me into the gutter again, or if my psychotic behaviour has made them think twice about having their wing mirror a couple of inches from my hand. Muppets!

 

[Origamist]

Did a bit of cleaning and minor fettling on the commuting bike yesterday. I adjusted the brakes and they were "perfectly" aligned when I gave the wheels a spin by hand. When I hit the roads this morning the back brake was rubbing something rotten and I'd forgotten my allen keys! Being a true moron, I continued on regardless without heading home to adjust them. Av speed 2mph slower and brake blocks worn...

Just because a wheel spins unhindered on a stand, does not mean that it responds in the same manner when the bike is encumbered with an 80kg lump of dim-wittedness and obstinancy.

Note to self - do not eschew a shake-down ride.

 

[Glow worm]

Lovely commute today- especially as it was the first for a couple of weeks. Ideal temperature but quite misty first thing, so needed the lights on, which is more than could be said of most of the cars. Pretty quick too (for me anyway!) as I even managed to overtake a few other cyclists - almost unheard of for me normally on my 10 mile route, (apart from on the covered railway bridge in Cambridge where a lot of them slow to walking pace due to the slope). Incident free too, apart from the charity minibus that inexplicably veered into my path on a roundabout. Had to bang on the side of thing to let the pillock know I was there. I didn't know that taking poorly kiddies to the seaside gives you the right to drive like a complete tool, but apparently it does!