Tales from today's commute....

[gaijintendo]

I wiped the sweat off my upper-beard and the velcro on the glove grazed my lip. Which is annoying because when I took a parking ticket on the weekend I put it in my mouth and it somehow welded and ripped the skin of that little middle lip bit.
Otherwise wonderful first ride on a bike I get cheap on gumtree and fixed up 👍👍

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sunday 31st

Ride home from work, about 14:30

The new ‘Aubisque’ (bought as frame/forks) on the railway embankment, alongside the River Calder

I'm approximately where the 'm' of Dismantled Railway' is on the OS map;
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2451643

 

[HarryTheDog]

Nice commute in and I have got the hang of my new commute route and its hills and this morning fairly flew in by my standards, quickest one so far by 1mph avg. It was helped in the last few miles by having a bit of a competitive angle with a young guy on a MTB on the canal path who was knocking out a good 17mph avg, I had to take my turn and cranked it up a notch. Then nearly got taken out by a muntjac deer.

 

[cosmicbike]

No real excitement over the past 2 nights of commuting, though I did enjoy the ride home at 0700hrs far more than the ride in at 1800hrs due to the heat and humidity. Last night made it just over 1000 miles for the year, terrible even by my standards but I haven't found much riding time this year, so most of that is commuting..

 

[rivers]

I'm off over Dartmoor and Exmoor at the end of next week, and today was my final chance to test my set-up out before then. So I fully loaded my bike, and set off on a 24 mile mixed off/on road commute home that took me along the Conham River Path, off-piste at Ashton Court, through some singletrack and bridleways and then onto the bridleways of Tyntesfield before rejoining the main road home. It was absolutely lush and 95% off road or on quiet roads. The 5% on the main road was absolutely shite. Close passes, dangerous overtakes and general impatience just to get to the queuing traffic half a mile down the road. Definitely a route to do again.

 

[skudupnorth]

Moist ! Still nice to ride the guided busway and Roe Green Loop line in warm rain though

 

[fossyant]

Moist ! Still nice to ride the guided busway and Roe Green Loop line in warm rain though

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I bailed - had a poor sleep, and didn't fancy the canal, cooking in my waterproofs. Took the dinky toy to work (Aygo). Well done Skud.

 

[skudupnorth]

I bailed - had a poor sleep, and didn't fancy the canal, cooking in my waterproofs. Took the dinky toy to work (Aygo). Well done Skud.

Must admit I boiled in my waterproof jacket, I might as well left it off !
Don’t blame you taking it easy, nothing worse than trying to ride when you are not 100%

 

[ianrauk]

Oi norvern muppet chums.
What's this rain you talk of? We need some of that down here in the boiling SE.

 

[Juan Kog]

Moist ! Still nice to ride the guided busway and Roe Green Loop line in warm rain though

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Rain 🤔 ? Remind me that’s the wet stuff that falls from the sky isn’t it .
No sign of it in the arid south .
(edit) slow typing, Ian beat me to it.

 

[fossyant]

Oi norvern muppet chums.
What's this rain you talk of? We need some of that down here in the boiling SE.

Been whizzing it down since last night, just as I finished building a shed. Happy to report the shed is waterproof - phew - built from scratch, not a kit. Got the roof on and roofing felt before I made the doors, good job. Only a 2.2m x 1.2m storage shed, nothing exciting, although it will be used for son's car junk, and free up my bike garage ! 😊

Dried up a bit now.

 

[skudupnorth]

Oi norvern muppet chums.
What's this rain you talk of? We need some of that down here in the boiling SE.

It started just as the schools broke up a week ago ! At least my new lawn is nice and lush

 

[skudupnorth]

Rain 🤔 ? Remind me that’s the wet stuff that falls from the sky isn’t it .
No sign of it in the arid south .
(edit) slow typing, Ian beat me to it.

Not stopped properly since we broke up for the six weeks holidays…. We had a few days with that round thing in the sky but we scared it away by throwing stones at it 😁

 

[biking_fox]

Yeah another really soggy rider here this morning too - warm so can't complain but I'm not sure if I'd have been less wet without my reflect360 jacket. They're good and waterproof in winter, but quite warm. Hope it's all dried out for a less damp afternoon.

 

[HLaB]

Nothing exiting on todays commute. The closest I have to news is that the strong SW headwind which would have been good for the evening (SE would be better) switched slightly so it was more of a westerly wind at night. According to mywindsock it was 63% headwind in the morning 56% at night