Tales from today's commute....

[400bhp]

Stopped to wait behind a bus today who had just put his indicator on (I was in his eyeline through the mirro). He uhmmed and ahhed a bit but eventually pulled out and put hazards on in a flash of thanks.

Another cyclist had come alongside me and said "I thought you would have gone through there" which, looking back on it he was probably having a bit of a pop about me waiting. I don't know if he'd realised but there was a bus coming the other way and there is a junction about 300 yards past the bus stop.

Thinking about it a little more, if we are a little more patient and courteous on the road perhaps we may gain a little more respect too.

 

[fossyant]

You were going for the draft ?

 

[mangid]

as what @Nocode said. horrible wet and much roads. The bike is a mess.
Gave it a bit of a wash down when I got to work.

I'm going to have to start weighing the amount of dirt I get off the bike each day !

Still, it's very satisfying getting it back into a clean state, although cleaning each chain link might be taking it a tad far ...

 

[jarlrmai]

Headwind, down to 13MPH at some points, effort felt like I should be doing 30 crazy bus overtake on a roundabout.

 

[potsy]

Working from home today, commute is only as far as the coffee machine.

How many times did you have to 'put the bike down' though?

Think I made it home before the the wind really started to pick up,it's a lot stronger now.
The amount of crap on the roads is unbelievable, haven't quite gone for the ianrauk mid-commute wipe down yet but it's getting closer

 

[martint235]

How many times did you have to 'put the bike down' though?

Think I made it home before the the wind really started to pick up,it's a lot stronger now.
The amount of crap on the roads is unbelievable, haven't quite gone for the ianrauk mid-commute wipe down yet but it's getting closer

Hey, Operation Kalm is going like a dream!! Even today, I fitted a new rear gear cable without swearing at the bike once!!

 

[Glow worm]

The usual idiot pulling right out on me from a supermarket in bloody Cambridge. Luckily I'm used to it - for some reason when a car lets them out, I become immediately invisible. He got a bit of a mouthful, the useless fat sod. 'Other than that a nice incident free ride if rather blowy. And I have come home a little early ahead of the forecast storms. What a whimp!

 

[potsy]

Surely rlj is on the increase isn't it? More cyclists and no change in the proportion of cyclists that rlj means, in totality it is on the increase.

Saw a girl this morning on a mtb, straight through one set, she was out of the saddle with her hi-viz coat flapping all over like Superman's cape, going nowhere fast despite the effort she seemed to be putting in.
Stayed behind as there was a another red light 50 yards away, yes, straight through that one too without even so much as a glance at what was coming

 

[Nocode]

...haven't quite gone for the ianrauk mid-commute wipe down yet but it's getting closer

Mid-commute!? As in cycling along with the baby-wipes out?

 

[ianrauk]

Mid-commute!? As in cycling along with the baby-wipes out?

I have no idea where Potsy get's that idea from....

 

[Nocode]

I have no idea where Potsy get's that idea from....

Hehe, very nice!

Wasn't quite the image I had conjured in my mind though. Thought you might have been cycling along cleaning your bike, or at least stopped at the lights giving the bike a quick spruce!

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Hairy moment crossing the junction at Liverpool Street with a vehicle crossing right poorly sighted hidden by vehicle crosssing left, in front of me,lost control of the brakes with one foot off the pedal on the fixie,going faster than I wanted and managed to do some sort of trick cycling to negotiate a tricky situation.

 

[Andrew_P]

Journey in

Journey Home

That tells the weather story today! (not one PR on Strava though)

Had it not been for fairly heavy traffic on the last 4 miles I would have cracked the 19.5 - 20mph avg, I was holding myself back from filtering down the right of moving traffic could have got it to 35-40mph was free wheeling at times doing 30mph . Went flying past some plod parked up in the bus lane they were on a blind bend too, think they wondered where I had stolen the bike from as I whizzed by

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Sealed half-empty bottle (of ?Dr Pepper?) thrown by passenger in slowly overtaking car aimed right at my front wheel this morning.

Flip me I was angry. By some fluke I think it hit the fork leg so didn't have me off. Only got a partial number as it was being tailgated. Didn't recognise the car as someone I'd had a run in with before but who knows. Turned bike around rode back to town to local cop shop and was patronised by a civilian for a while. Went home and reported incident on-line. Drove to work as the lovely Helen is off sick. Was delayed by 25 minutes because of an rta. Grrrrrrrrrr!

 

[Sandra6]

Well, it was wet. That is all.