Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Escaped the really heavy rain, but was waterproofed up for the ride home, so pace was slow into the headwind. WFH tomorrow so I get a few hours back in the evening to pack the van for this weekend's camping. Next ride will be in Newborough Forest. Panniering up the CX bike into bike packing mode and using the new Ortlieb Gravel panniers to carry the 'picnic' to the beach - it's about a 40 minute walk to the beach, or 10 mins on the bike ! MrsF asked if I could use the work panniers - I said I'd bought some new ones for bike packing - doh, busted....

 

[cyberknight]

Not a commute but I went into the flat Fens at lunchtime for 153w of work going Southbound down the 3 miles Holme Road I was going 15.6mph and after doing a loop for a slightly less 142w up Holme Road (Northbound) I was going 22.2mph. It was windy indeed!

in 17.7 avg , home 11.9 avg !!!

 

[biking_fox]

Avoided the worst of yesterday's rain, lovely sunshine flowers and birdsong again today.

 

[cyberknight]

Light rain this morning and had to use spare shoes and helmet as the usual ones were still wet from yesterday.

 

[katiewlx]

9/10 times its my ride in that I get the problems with drivers, well today was that 1/10 time. albeit weirdly compressed into like less than half a mile/5mins of riding, before that everything had been fine, but I get a bus driver (not in service) who squeezed me on the apex entry to a roundabout to overtake me. I then get nearly left hooked on the next roundabout by another driver, and to finish it off had a guy drive at me head on who wanted to play chicken.

Id like to think any of them cared about me or the consequences of their actions, but they probably didnt.

 

[Mazz]

Got absolutely drenched on the way. My own fault, I saw the dark clouds and thought 'i can make it into work before the heavens open up'. Thankfully had some old newspapers (Metro) in the office, stuffed them in my shoes to dry them out .

 

[HLaB]

Quite a quiet ride to the train station not really much to report but a couple of polite drivers. It seemed marginally easier too with my new front wheel despite having last night's TT in my legs.

 

[palinurus]

There are some temporary traffic lights on my usual route. Naturally I took a different route adding 10-15 minutes to my journey rather than have to wait one and half minutes at the lights.

 

[cyberknight]

Car day as I'm having my ear sorted out at 4 so need to be home early.

 

[Mazz]

Quite a quiet ride to the train station not really much to report but a couple of polite drivers. It seemed marginally easier too with my new front wheel despite having last night's TT in my legs.

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I think I've got the same wheel ,Shimano RS. Did the previous rim just wear out? I know there's a wear indicator dimple on these.

 

[Mazz]

There are some temporary traffic lights on my usual route. Naturally I took a different route adding 10-15 minutes to my journey rather than have to wait one and half minutes at the lights.

Same.
Although in my case I'm thinking 'Stick or twist?'. I normally stick and either wait for the lights, or if they've just gone red, I dismount and walk the bike to the other side and rejoin. I'm sure it annoys some drivers.

 

[HLaB]

I think I've got the same wheel ,Shimano RS. Did the previous rim just wear out? I know there's a wear indicator dimple on these.

I went for the 2nd up in the shimano range the WH300 or something, it was only £20 more and if I ever upgrade the rear it'll be to the tubeless WH500.

The story is in what have you fettled today but basically yes, the rim was thin for a while and the wear marker eventually appeared so I replaced rather than faceplanting.

Co incidentally my better Hunt front wheel wore out at the same time but it had wear holes from the start that type dissappear when the rim is worn out.