What's your favourite part of your commute?
- Thread starter Twilkes
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Rancid
Active Member
- Location
- Saff Landin
the best part for me is the chance to have a good think and let my mind run over issues of the day.
the cycling almost does itself.
the cycling almost does itself.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
from tower hill down lower thames street. i can get the speed camera to flash as I whizz past the stationary cars.
defy-one
Guest
That baby is set to 33mph. Must try it myself!
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
all the down hill bits!
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
big ring racing
Arfcollins
Soft southerner.
- Location
- Fareham
Cresting a hill on the way home that really does get steeper as you get towards the top. I can relax then as just a few yards back if I ran out of steam I'd have fallen over before I could unclip.
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
My commute is all the way along a coastal shared use path. I dont have any specific part which I like but I do enjoy cycling in the morning with the sun just coming up.
hennbell
Guru
- Location
- Lloydminster, Alberta , Canada
2 best bits
1- Wife greeting me at the door.
2- smell of steaks on the bbq on summer afternoons, and every once and a while it's my dinner being cooked.
1- Wife greeting me at the door.
2- smell of steaks on the bbq on summer afternoons, and every once and a while it's my dinner being cooked.
RedRider
Pulling through
- Location
- Location Embrocation
It's not on my commute but it's along a route which reminds me how lucky I am to cycle in London...Black Prince Rd, Lambeth Bridge, Smith Square, Tufton St, Little Smith and Great Smith Streets, QE2, Horse Guards, cross The Mall, up the steps, the West End.Horse Guards Road in the mornings, great, iconic location with St James Pk to the left (Buck House in the distance) and Horse Guards Parade on the right with the London Eye peeking overhead. You can also get up to a really good speed.
I cycle with no hands along Horse Guards.
RedRider
Pulling through
- Location
- Location Embrocation
My favourite bit on my short 2-3 mile commute is Burgess Park. Was closed for the first year in my latest job leaving me on the grim, pot-holed Albany Rd instead. Now I like whizzing through the subway and the slight spray you get on a breezy day from the new fountains in the lake.
So, it's you!
(joking)Don't you find the roundabouts either side of Lambeth Bridge a bit of a nightmare? I hear TFL is going to re-model those as they're danger points. Also, turning left and going around Smith Square I find I'm dodging the peds flinging themselves in front of me from behind parked vehicles (I'm convinced they're laying in wait
).Horse Guards comes as a wonderful relief after all that.
In fact, here are the proposed improvements, should be interesting...
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/streets/betterjunctions-lambethbridgenorth
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/streets/betterjunctions-lambethbridgenorth
MickL
Über Member
- Location
- Dudley by the Castle...
Seeing the Tesco Sign, its like a blue beacon of hope telling me I have 1.5mls left to go before home
col.kurtz
Über Member
- Location
- nahhhridge
Riding through the grounds of Norwich Cathedral fromBishopbridge in the early morning looking out for damp leaves and the pereguin falcons on the spire then passing the private chapel with the candles on, always looks so cosy, then through Cathedral Close onto Tombland to join the 21st century rat race again 
