Tales from today's commute....

[Supersuperleeds]

Completely clear at home car windscreen not frozen but halfway to work everyone's cars frozen over bit bizzare.
3 day week again legs feeling it a bit .Tonight overtook the slowest cyclist ever . Pulled alongside and asked if he was ok and I was struggling to keep the bike upright it was that slow . He said he was fine . Still a scalp though

Our car was frozen up but the roads clear, was quite frosty once I got out of Leicester though. Looks like it might be icy tomorrow morning, still going out though

 

[Reynard]

Fine this morning, even if the roads were icy. Sun was nice, which made it feel warmer than it was. Had a close pass while riding in a cycle lane - some old dear on her way to Sainsbury's thought it would be a good idea to share it with me. Return trip at 10pm did include some distracted pedestrians in town and a few patches of black ice near home. But it was so cold that I felt like I was in a Coors Light advert...

My bike steamed up when I brought it inside

 

[palinurus]

All day on Friday I was looking forward to leaving at four and getting home pretty much in daylight for the first time since early November. I've been thinking of little else this year.

At 3:50 an Outlook reminder appeared about a conference call starting at 16:00. I practically had a meltdown in the office. I changed my response to 'declined' and left. I'm going to set up a repeating appointment so that I'm marked as busy from four on that day from now until 2035.

 

[I like Skol]

Nice ride into work this morning (Apart from having to work on a Sunday ) and had a lovely close encounter with a pair of juvenile foxes on Dialstone Lane as I headed in to Hazel Grove. They ran out to cross the road as I was passing. The first one went for it and crossed in plenty of time but the second decided it was going to be a bit close so stopped at the white line in the middle of the road while I passed. It cheered me up no end, don’t you just love wildlife?

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Another hot ride home from work. The temperature hovered between about 35 and 36 for the whole 90 minute ride.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Went in on the 29er with off road tyres thinking it would be safer. Ended up on my butt after crossing a road, slipped on paving slabs. Then going down a cycleway, went round a bend, bike disapeared from under me, slid down the road for a few feet. Next cyclist slowed and stopped to help ( I know him we were both CX racing yesterday in the slippy mud) then he came off as well. We both picked ourselves up and stupidly did not get off the cycleway straight away, very next cyclist came in too hot, avoided us and ended on his arse as well. Some very quick apologies avoided a punch up.
We decided the road was probably going to be safer and ended up hacking it down the A13, luckily I had put a big chainring on the 29er last night in preperation for commute duties ( a whole 38t) so managed to bowl along at 20mph+. Body is ok ish, but my neoprene overshoes are ripped, tights and top completely unscathed.

 

[Simontm]

Foggy ride in. Not too many cyclists till the RLJ zone 2 nobbers at Hammersmith onwards. Seemed that the fog was actually moving east as it got denser the more into Central I went after waking up to a similar mist that lightened by the time I was on the bike - either that or its smog!
Numpty count: 0

 

[Twizit]

Lovely pea souper all the way into London this morning. Especially thick through Richmond Park where visibility was down to a few metres in places.

Must have been cold judging by the ice on my gloves on arrival at work

 

[ianrauk]

No fog in the SE of the Capitol this morning, but blimey it's a bit nippy out there.

 

[martint235]

Yep fog much less than forecast. I hit a couple of pockets of it. Not as cold as yesterday either thankfully. Legs not suffering as badly as I expected either.

No real numpties but I was much earlier than usual today.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Another hot ride home from work. The temperature hovered between about 35 and 36 for the whole 90 minute ride.

The temperature here dropped 8 degrees, from about 34 to 26, in about 20 minutes, and rain is arriving. Melbourne sure knows how to do dramatic cool changes.

 

[Arjimlad]

Went in on the 29er with off road tyres thinking it would be safer. Ended up on my butt after crossing a road, slipped on paving slabs. Then going down a cycleway, went round a bend, bike disapeared from under me, slid down the road for a few feet. Next cyclist slowed and stopped to help ( I know him we were both CX racing yesterday in the slippy mud) then he came off as well. We both picked ourselves up and stupidly did not get off the cycleway straight away, very next cyclist came in too hot, avoided us and ended on his arse as well. Some very quick apologies avoided a punch up.
We decided the road was probably going to be safer and ended up hacking it down the A13, luckily I had put a big chainring on the 29er last night in preperation for commute duties ( a whole 38t) so managed to bowl along at 20mph+. Body is ok ish, but my neoprene overshoes are ripped, tights and top completely unscathed.

A right old adventure !

 

[apb]

put some new cleats on my shoes this weekend and it felt really nice this morning. Usually my right leg, which is the on a prefer to clip in and out of, wiggles about a bit because the cleats are about 4 years old.

I have always gone for the sh56 cleats as they are multi-directional and i fear a clipless moment. But i only had sh51's about so i've gone with them and haven't felt much difference other than they feel new and snug.

happy days

 

[prawny]

Having a few days on the train while fridays injuries heal, I was worried that I'd not want to get back on my bike but I hated every second of it. If I'd not bought a weeks pass I'd be back on the bike tomorrow.

 

[palinurus]

Freezing fog this morning. Hands were a bit cold even inside my lobster gloves.

Still nice though, birds were singing even though I left while it was still dark. Got less foggy and considerably lighter towards the work end of the journey.