Tales from today's commute....

[Drago]

Took the truck today as my tummy was having a bad day. On the way home, country roads, hung back on a roadie who wasn't hanging around. Road opened up, I could see ahead, overtake with the whole truck onto the other side of the white lines, plenty of room for him.

I moved in again and carried on, and looked in my mirror just in time to see a chump in a Golf overtake him with inches to spare for no reason. This made me mighty angry, so I slowed down to 35mpg for the next few miles just to f*** him off. He wasn't happy!

 

[MisterStan]

Today the drivers of Cambridgeshire were total daffodils. Close passes galore, stupid overtakes on blind corners and general twattery.

Took the long route home in a not completely futile attempt to engineer a tailwind, that meant a full headwind for the first part and a sidey-tail for the remainder.

Lots of cyclists out tonight.

 

[Tin Pot]

Hopefully it was "destroyed or damaged by the security services". That'll learn 'em.

I noticed it. On its own by the train doors.

Asked the guy standing - "Not mine"

Asked the carriage to the right - "no"

Asked the carriage to the left - shaking heads

Considered sprinting for my life...

Got off train called staff over.

5 minutes later someone owns up, half a carriage away from their bag.

Honestly. Today?

 

[martint235]

Fairly shocking ride in today. Bit of headwind but not enough to explain the struggle to even get a 14.5mph average. Just chalking it up to a bad day.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Rode in feeling very grumpy, gusting stiff headwind, my shoulder I smashed into several bits 10 years ago has been back reminding me its a mess for the last few weeks and is getting worse, also I seem to have a painful boil or ingrowing hair on my butt in the seating area which makes me have to stand up once in a while or cyle with my butt favouring the left hand side of the saddle. Got a doctors apointment for Friday for both.
My mood was lightned by a young man on a old steel/alu road bike spinning furiously past me in baggy jeans and trainers pedalling on the arches of his foot.( must get past the old fart in his lycra on his carbon bike style) I was in admiration of the guy for a few minutes with the headwind. The inevitable happened however his 20mph slowed and slowed until he was slogging along at 14mph and I just had to go past.

 

[MisterStan]

@HarryTheDog the like was for the end of your post, not your bum problems!

 

[MisterStan]

Grey and muggy this morning, got drizzled on a couple of times, but nothing dreadful.

 

[J1888]

Overcast, a bit windy, some eejits on the road - I have arm out to signal I'm turning right...I wait for a cyclists coming in the opposite direction...moron motorist behind me in SUCH a hurry that he decides to come past on my right instead of waiting...

 

[fimm]

It was past 9pm almost 10pm.I see make up your own rules as it's summer don't need lights.That's what a lot seem to do out there.No wonder we have a bad name.

Ah. That's a bit different to 6pm.
(Though here in Edinburgh you'd still be fine without lights at 9pm, I think - and at the summer solstice there's normally a week or two when I cycle back at gone 10pm without lights... I accept it isn't the same for you southerners )

Came in on the Big Bike today and got wet. My feet were cold however it is brightening up now and the ride home should be dry at least. (Oh and I have to confess to having my rear light on, flashing. To be honest, anyone who can't see an adult in a bright red rain jacket in broad daylight isn't going to notice a weedy flashing light but it keeps the boyfriend happy...)

 

[JMT]

This morning Very Wet and Windy (headwind of course). Now trying to dry kit by hanging in front of a fan in the office, not sure what the rest of the guys in the office think.

One main problem this morning was a crazy squirrel not taking account of the less than favorable weather conditions and causing me to take evasive action. Oh a I wish some car drivers would have given me a little more room with the wind and very slippy road surface.

Still praying the wind doesn't change direction as I should have a strong tail wind on the way home :-)

 

[Drago]

Just About to leave for work. Weather looks a bit threatening, so do get a crossed. At least the wind is at my back so I may try for a few segment PBs.

 

[Lonestar]

Ah. That's a bit different to 6pm.
(Though here in Edinburgh you'd still be fine without lights at 9pm, I think - and at the summer solstice there's normally a week or two when I cycle back at gone 10pm without lights... I accept it isn't the same for you southerners )

Came in on the Big Bike today and got wet. My feet were cold however it is brightening up now and the ride home should be dry at least. (Oh and I have to confess to having my rear light on, flashing. To be honest, anyone who can't see an adult in a bright red rain jacket in broad daylight isn't going to notice a weedy flashing light but it keeps the boyfriend happy...)

I generally put my rear magicshine flasher on if it rains,don't trust them out there and sometimes one of the front lights.Esp if I see vehicles have their lights on during the day and it's downcast.Didn't get home till after 10pm that night anyway thanks to me being nosey about a car crash in Stratford..

http://road.cc/content/review/97852-magicshine-mj-818-rear-light

I do take my lights seriously and generally have very little problem with cars at night.(Not seeing me that is).I also have another rear light which is steady and brighter than the magicshine and the module is fitted in an old sterident tube and taped to the frame.Works on 18650 batteries x1.I've seen some of the lights on the other bikes and some of them look pretty ineffective.

 

[summerdays]

Commute in fine if a bit breezy. At one point I'm passing a side road and a car is coming towards me wanting to turn right into it, I make eye contact with the driver so carry on, BUT so does he, before stopping sharply as the guy I made eye contact with starts remonstrating with the actual driver in the left hand drive!!! The lady behind them gave me a thumbs up.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Good Samaritan deed done this morning after spotting a guy walking with his bike, his chain had just snapped. Lucky for him I had my chain tool on me, unlucky for me he had no clue of how to use it. His chain was properly greased up and filthy so I said he can do the dirty work I'll just tell him what to do. He said he'd been commuting for around 18months but had never had to deal with any failings so had no experience of fixing anything. He was struggling through so I just thought to get in there, get filthy, get him fixed and back on his way. 5 mins later I was drying my hands in road dust to take the edge off the sticky grease before heading on my way. I encouraged him to think about learning some basic mechanics that could help out on the road, emphasising that riding your bike is great fun, being stranded in the middle of nowhere is not.

Other than that a pretty standard ride really. Wet to begin with, then dried up. A bit of a nagging breeze to contend with but nothing that had me swearing.

 

[donnydave]

Lights on, head down, get on with it. The less said about this mornings commute the better.