Tales from today's commute....

[C R]

how far is your commute?

1.8 miles, hardly a commute.

 

[HLaB]

1.8 miles, hardly a commute.

I think when I worked for the council my commute was less than that but it was very easy to extend it, particularly at night, and have the fall back of the short commute for when things went wrong or I was too tired.

 

[C R]

only problem with that as alway police are thin on the ground and in reality few get taken by the boys in blue. Where I live in London electric scooters and over clocked eletric bike are a regualr occurance I have seen police drive past bikes and scooters and not bat an eyelid personally think its all for show just so they can make it look like they are actually doing something about it. Some days feels like I am in the minority as I have no electric motor and the only other bikes are food delivery drivers.

If they had started confiscating them as soon as they started appearing on the roads they would only have needed to confiscate a few to kill the demand. People would have thought twice before spending a few hundred pounds on something that could easily be taken away.

Instead, the number of illegal scooters was allowed to balloon, giving the impression that it was fine to ride one in public. Then illegal electric motorbikes followed, and now there are so many that it is impossible to get rid of them.

 

[C R]

I think when I worked for the council my commute was less than that but it was very easy to extend it, particularly at night, and have the fall back of the short commute for when things went wrong or I was too tired.

I both live and work at the edge of town, and there's a rural loop I could take to increase the distance, but unfortunately it is a busy commuter rat run, so I'm not sure how nice a ride it would be. My current commute is fully on a cycle path, so fairly safe, except for loose dogs in a short section through a park.

 

[HLaB]

I both live and work at the edge of town, and there's a rural loop I could take to increase the distance, but unfortunately it is a busy commuter rat run, so I'm not sure how nice a ride it would be. My current commute is fully on a cycle path, so fairly safe, except for loose dogs in a short section through a park.

I was at the edge of town too but Pottyboro directs all the traffic to the town centre where I worked (well just the other side of it) and the roads round the centre were either quieter or manic in the direction contraflow to me. There was always the river path too which was completely traffic free. Hopefully your council are on the ball and do something about the rat running.

 

[ianrauk]

G'morning folks.
Yesterdays evening commute was the first one this year that I thought, yep, it's warm out there, and it was. Lovely blue skies and very warm sunshine for the ride.
This morning is a different matter, we've got northern grey, cloudy skies. It wasn't really cold, but the wind made it feel colder. Made cycling in just that little bit harder, but a little bit of SCR soon got the blood pumping.

 

[cyberknight]

Warm enough this morning but a nasty headwind and rain made for a miserable commute, over 3 mph slower than yesterday.