Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Cold , dark and knee hurts even with painkillers, getting fed up with it now

My left knee has eased up but my left hip (the broken one) and my feet are playing up as we've spent the 10 days away walking (or hobbling in my case) about 5 plus miles each day.

 

[mrushton]

Wet, cold, grim this am. Should have gone full rain jacket/gloves but didnt. pitch black so should have put a stronger light on. Wont miss these days when retired.

 

[Gwylan]

Its being stuck in a metal box with thousands of others going nowhere slowly. Brings out the red faced reform voting, daily mail reading hatred amongst them and cyclists are an easy target.

But you know you are cycling and therefore must be having more fun than they are!

 

[Gwylan]

Cold , dark and knee hurts even with painkillers, getting fed up with it now

Oh dear.

 

[fossyant]

Dug out the Pro-Vis Gillet I picked up over last Christmas break in the sales. Got it because my super toasty thermal jackets are both black, and I don't like commuting in black. It's not had much use as I promptly fell off my bike just after Christmas and only used it twice. By the time I was back on the bike commuting, it was late Spring !

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Lovely evening ride home between the showers, Manchester lot up in the sunshine

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

On a positive note I've managed to avoid most of the rain with the shift pattern I've done. On a negative note I've destroyed the front tyre and tube on the Raleigh (old tyre decided to explode on me!) I'm now on the 3rd back up bike until I pick up new tyres and tubes or fix the Felt which is crank less and wheeless 😂

 

[katiewlx]

I wimped out Thursday, the forecast the night before was insane citing 60mph winds, the forecast in the morning was still crazy wind & rain and it was still chucking it down when I hit my kind of go/nogo decision point to ride. So I drove instead, and apart from one massive flooded section I had to get through it was uneventful and had even stopped raining by the time Id parked up, and thats actually how it stayed for the rest of the day, a bit windy, gusty for sure, but dry, so actually the forecasts were complete nonsense,and Id have been fine riding in.

so I decided to work from home today and managed to fit a nice lunchtime local ride in,dry sunny, some of the less travelled roads are certainly worse for wear in terms of mud, debris, water etc from the storm. But of course today with the wind it was just a constant near 18mph, didnt matter which direction you went, you felt it, as the tail of the storm moves off. And of course bitterly cold now, almost full winter gear now.