Tales from today's commute....

[MisterStan]

Last night felt like really hard work. The Busway was really mucky down at the St Ives end, loads of crud getting trapped in the mudguards made it hard work to pedal, had to stop and scrape it out.

Chilly this morning, was glad to get to work and have a cup of coffee. The Claud had a p@ncture when I went to get her out, a quick re-check of the forecast and be being lazy, I just grabbed the best bike and transferred pannier contents to a rucksack. Very chatty daughter this morning - 'Daddy going to work, on bike' - bless her.

 

[fossyant]

Argh, even longer to drive today. Righty, into the garage tonight and the MTB is being commuterised - mudguards and ice tyres.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Blimey it was chilly this morning. Cars all iced up, fields nice and white with frost, mist in places, roads nice and clear.

 

[Frood42]

Last night was fairly good, a couple of close pass numpties but nothing overly unusual for London... although it was unusual compared to recent evenings where traffic had been mostly behaving well, and yes, they were both BMW *cough* extension cars

This morning was chilly, and the CS3 was a bit of a slog, but apart from that a fairly uneventful ride, well apart from one *cough* womble who decided to pull out of a junction and as he was doing so gesticulate at me about riding left just as I was moving into primary to pass the junction and some parked cars ahead... I could see you perfectly well fella, I even slowed down for you, you complete waste of space... its best to avoid pulling out on traffic fella, even if it is only a bike doing 18mph

 

[Buzzinonbikes]

Be careful filtering out there folks. A late indication and right turn whilst I was filtering on the right and a car cutting across a cycle lane to turn from the other way in front of a stopped vehicle turning the other way. Luckily my Spidy Senses were tingling and anticipated both (The first an X5 LOL, and the second couldn't see through the stopped car so was to be expected.)

 

[potsy]

I don't think you will hold out til Friday

Argh, even longer to drive today. Righty, into the garage tonight and the MTB is being commuterised - mudguards and ice tyres.

 

[fossyant]

But... I have my better half to contend with first....

 

[nilling]

I had a moton squeeze me coming off a roundabout then it quickly just became a wtf morning! Two attempted left hooks, another two drivers from side roads using the cycle lane as a give way, a bullying van driver jeez happy to arrive at work in one piece!

 

[potsy]

But... I have my better half to contend with first....

Another sunny ride in, just saying

Only the one driver trying to kill me today, apparently if you are turning right at a busy main crossroads and there is a cyclist coming towards you going straight on there is no need to wait, just Plough on through

 

[martint235]

Another sunny ride in, just saying

Only the one driver trying to kill me today, apparently if you are turning right at a busy main crossroads and there is a cyclist coming towards you going straight on there is no need to wait, just Plough on through

Probably trying to nick your armwarmers.

 

[fossyant]

Another sunny ride in, just saying

Only the one driver trying to kill me today, apparently if you are turning right at a busy main crossroads and there is a cyclist coming towards you going straight on there is no need to wait, just Plough on through

Sounds about right. Bonnet ornaments eh.

 

[kipster]

Nice and fresh this morning, leaves were extra slippery thanks to the frost. Nearly came a cropper being impatient and overtaking a Brompton, drifted on to slippery leaves, went to accelerate and rear wheel went, caught it and didn't hit the deck but a close call and I still nailed the overtake!

 

[martint235]

I think it's time for Operation Kalm again. It must be something about the dark nights but I was within a whisker of putting my bike down in front of a car again tonight. I was leaving a gap between me and the car in front and a 4x4 came past me. I'm sure he was braking before he'd actually completed the overtake.

 

[Beebo]

I think it's time for Operation Kalm again. It must be something about the dark nights but I was within a whisker of putting my bike down in front of a car again tonight. I was leaving a gap between me and the car in front and a 4x4 came past me. I'm sure he was braking before he'd actually completed the overtake.

I had exactly the same going down Greenwich Park hill the other day. Bearing in mind it's a 20mph max speed limit, and I was going down hill.
I left my usual gap between the car in front, when an X5 overtook me, braked instantly and sat in my safety zone the whole way down the hill.
They had to queue for 5 minutes at the bottom of the hill whilst I just cycled past.
Pointless.

 

[400bhp]

Better but still not close to 100%.

Back to normal on the way home.