Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Late finish last night so didn't get home till gone seven pm. Nippy this morning. Decent ride despite feeling knackered. Been avoiding covid at home as we've MrsF and daughter coughing and spluttering, so I'm shattered.

At least you are awake when you get to work, not like driving or public transport.

 

[fossyant]

M60 closed on western side, clockwise (Sale). This has lead to many of my colleagues being over an hour late for work. Lots of complaining about traffic etc. etc. Smug mode on !

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

That's terrible. I've been on the TPT (section from Chesterfield to Sheffield admittedly, not Wombwell), but I didn't think it was open to motorised traffic. They must've brought all that sh!t on a van presumably.

200m further up the track there's a road and barriers either side, one side on that stretch has an opening which you can get a van/4x4 over. Looks like they did two trips the scruffy gits, all cleared up now.

 

[markharry66]

First day back on bike after work enforced two day lay off, had winter gear on as was in London yesterday an felt chilly as per usual read weather wrong and was to hot, ten years of cycling and hardly ever get it right unless its freezing. Boil in the bag jacket over warmig nicely I managed to get in slow time again not sure why when its darker in the mornings I seem to ride in slower. Usual mix of Knobheads and pricks this morning, cars revining up all becuase I am riding centre of road so i dont get doored. Van driver at lights decided to bib me up and stick two fingers up nice one runt.

 

[markharry66]

I see this quite a lot on my SE Londinium commute

Yeah sheep mentality its reason there are so many reform supporters.

 

[spen666]

Can we go back to the warmer lighter days

 

[cyberknight]

Coming home i was behind a e mtb , looked like a legal one but who knows
Any-road i was about to overtake when the rider pulls right across the lane without looking before a half hearted indication of intent to turn into a side road after the fact so i have to swerve to the inside so i dont cause a pile up and shout " look before you pull out " as i pass .
I hear a few insults being hurled and i guess he decides to try and give chase as the insults continue but i think he realises he aint catching me on the flat as im tootling around 21 mph and a legal heavy e hardtail is not going that sort of pace

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I hear a few insults being hurled and i guess he decides to try and give chase as the insults continue but i think he realises he aint catching me on the flat as im tootling around 21 mph and a legal heavy e hardtail is not going that sort of pace

Be careful of your knee(s), young man!

 

[cyberknight]

Be careful of your knee(s), young man!

took a bit of a bashing today with 67 mile club ride !

 

[wafter]

This morning's otherwise nice and bright ride marred irreparably by the nagging realisation that I've probably lost my lovely merino buff, and to a lesser extent the slow, ominous worsening of manflu / covid

 

[ianrauk]

A bit foggy here in the Med this morning. A tad chilly too. Looks like it's going to warm up quite nicely later today.

 

[spen666]

A big temperature drop until the sun got higher in the sky.

Many of the fair weather cyclists seem to have given up (or are WFH today)

Today's observation of the day is that there appears to be new rules for traffic lights for motorists - none of this squeezing through the lights as they change - being an amber gambler is considered old hat. Now it seems that as long as you say the light other than on a solid red, you just carry on, even if its been red for seconds by the time you get to the stop line.

Being a cyclist means for most people not stopping or even slowing down or looking at red lights. Pedestrians on crossings forced to jump out of your way etc

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Well, that was more eventful than usual.

Mottram St Andrew, village en route, was closed by police due to WWII UXB! Unfortunately, they only closed the road at the centre, so that meant over a mile retrace to the next cut through, which happened to be one of the 100 climbs https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/swiss-hill/

Lungs busted, rolled in the next few miles, only to suffer an outrageously close pass approaching some lights, for no reason at all. Managed a very polite request to take more care in future after knocking on miscreants window when I immediately caught him up. I suspect his polite response was helped by his daughter being in the passenger seat.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Well, that was more eventful than usual.

Mottram St Andrew, village en route, was closed by police due to WWII UXB! Unfortunately, they only closed the road at the centre, so that meant over a mile retrace to the next cut through, which happened to be one of the 100 climbs https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/swiss-hill/

Lungs busted, rolled in the next few miles, only to suffer an outrageously close pass approaching some lights, for no reason at all. Managed a very polite request to take more care in future after knocking on miscreants window when I immediately caught him up. I suspect his polite response was helped by his daughter being in the passenger seat.

Posted on FB by plod... "The device has been moved to a field in the local area where it can be safely detonated within the next few hours.

There may be more than one controlled explosion while EOD work to make the device safe."

 

[fossyant]

Well, that was more eventful than usual.

Mottram St Andrew, village en route, was closed by police due to WWII UXB! Unfortunately, they only closed the road at the centre, so that meant over a mile retrace to the next cut through, which happened to be one of the 100 climbs https://cyclinguphill.com/100-climbs/swiss-hill/

Lungs busted, rolled in the next few miles, only to suffer an outrageously close pass approaching some lights, for no reason at all. Managed a very polite request to take more care in future after knocking on miscreants window when I immediately caught him up. I suspect his polite response was helped by his daughter being in the passenger seat.

Oof, Swiss hill on the commute. Thoroughly unpleasant if damp. Last time I rode it was on my CX bike last year with 34x32 and grippy tyres. - Easy on that setup.