confusedcyclist
Veteran
Did you mean this one?
Unfortunately it didn't stop a twonk in a white van overtaking me on a BLIND CORNER ON A NARROW ROAD shortly after passing this in Bradford today.
GRRRRR
Tales from today's commute....
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Unfortunately it didn't stop a twonk in a white van overtaking me on a BLIND CORNER ON A NARROW ROAD shortly after passing this in Bradford today.
GRRRRR
Origamist
Legendary Member
What's your planned route to Crewe? I guess you'll be going in the opposite direction to me...
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Cracking out today - great ride home apart from hitting a big dent in the road going southbound over Waterloo Bridge - thought I'd broken something on the bike and I definitely felt it in my hands and wrists!
Cool out and with an inobtrusive wind. Please continue like this Mr Weather.
Drawback is of course that the seasonal cyclists are now clogging up the bike racks at work, not that I'm bitter.
Cool out and with an inobtrusive wind. Please continue like this Mr Weather.
Drawback is of course that the seasonal cyclists are now clogging up the bike racks at work, not that I'm bitter.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Got up and it was bloody cold, step outside and the cars are frozen over, come back in and see on the weather forecast that it is below freezing out in the sticks. So it is obvious that I go to work on the ice bike. Turned out the roads were perfectly dry and I would have been fine on the commuter. Anyway that gave me the excuse to come home at dinner time and swap the bikes. Legs tonight felt the ice ride this morning, but three days in a row now averaging 16mph on the way home 
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
That's a cracking commute
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Woodford, Alderley, ollerton (an old commute of mine) down through Biley, Middlewich then might take the lanes to Crewe Green (destination).
Origamist
Legendary Member
I'll keep my eyes open as I might see you!
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Nice ride home, cool but not cold, dry and still. I also managed to find some zip from somewhere, I must have recharged my batteries during the 12hr shift as I pushed a lot harder on the way home
Todays commute was pretty uneventful however I'm really enjoying having at least the first 5 minutes or so of riding home not being in complete darkness. However it's still pretty cold in the mornings at the moment.
Despite a pretty uneventful commute both ways there was one thing that has made me post today.
My commute is a mixture of rural plus urban roads and now maybe this makes me sound really old fashioned but when for example I pass another cyclist going in the other direction I say good morning or evening & give bit of a nod or a hand gesture of acknowledgement. I must admit that for example I don't do this on one part of my journey once I'm nearly at work because there's a section jam packed with cyclists and I think I'd get out of breath saying hello to everyone.
However on the quieter roads where you only see say one person and on the rural parts of my commute I always say hello. Now throughout the winter I pretty much only see person on either the way to or home from work on the rural part of my commute and we always exchange a greeting and maybe a few extra words which sometimes get lost in the wind.
Tonight though, now that it's a bit nicer, there are more people on my route home and I passed 5 different people going in the opposite direction (the normal guy who says hello wasn't one of them today) and I said hello or evening to all of them and I didn't get a single response back or nod/gesture or anything. This probably now just makes me sound like a really grumpy old man, which to be fair is probably true a fair amount of the time, but in my defence I've had a rubbish week at work, my two year old son is unwell and hasn't been sleeping well which has been getting me up several times a night plus my 4 month old daughter has been doing her best to keep me awake when her brother isn't so perhaps I'm just really over tired and sensitive.
However is it really asking too much just to say something in return instead of just blanking me completely. Now my apologies in advance because I'm tired and being lazy I'm going to resort to some lazy stereotyping and lumping people into the same category as one another which I know that I shouldn't do but I'm really exhausted, running out of brain power and a bit fed up. For starters the other regular guy that I've seen throughout the winter has panniers and my guess is that like me they're going to work and they are the one that always also says hello. Now the 5 people that I saw tonight were all on pretty nice looking racing bikes and none of them had mudguards, racks, panniers, rucksacks or anything to suggest that they were commuting. Therefore I'm making a guess that they were just out to enjoy an evening ride now that the weather is a bit nicer. You'd think that now the weather was nicer they'd be happy to be getting out on the bike and perhaps be courteous enough to return a hello but I just got resolutely ignored by every single one of them.
Maybe the fact that I ride an old and beat up flat bared hybrid did not deem me worthy of acknowledgement but I'd like to think that we're all cyclists together and a friendly hello doesn't do any harm. Perhaps my bike hasn't got anything to do with it and whoever I was & whatever I was riding they wouldn't say hello to a fellow cyclist.
Anyway sorry for a really grumpy long post but I'm just really tired and maybe going a bit delusional now due to sleep deprivation which perhaps left me a bit sensitive to being continuously blanked on todays commute home. Perhaps if even one of them had said hello in return I wouldn't have minded so much but the fact that I was ignored by every single one really got me down.
Sorry for the miserable post and my rant is now over having got this off my check.
Hope that everyones commutes tomorrow go well and hope that everyone has a good weekend if they're not working over it.
John
Despite a pretty uneventful commute both ways there was one thing that has made me post today.
My commute is a mixture of rural plus urban roads and now maybe this makes me sound really old fashioned but when for example I pass another cyclist going in the other direction I say good morning or evening & give bit of a nod or a hand gesture of acknowledgement. I must admit that for example I don't do this on one part of my journey once I'm nearly at work because there's a section jam packed with cyclists and I think I'd get out of breath saying hello to everyone.
However on the quieter roads where you only see say one person and on the rural parts of my commute I always say hello. Now throughout the winter I pretty much only see person on either the way to or home from work on the rural part of my commute and we always exchange a greeting and maybe a few extra words which sometimes get lost in the wind.
Tonight though, now that it's a bit nicer, there are more people on my route home and I passed 5 different people going in the opposite direction (the normal guy who says hello wasn't one of them today) and I said hello or evening to all of them and I didn't get a single response back or nod/gesture or anything. This probably now just makes me sound like a really grumpy old man, which to be fair is probably true a fair amount of the time, but in my defence I've had a rubbish week at work, my two year old son is unwell and hasn't been sleeping well which has been getting me up several times a night plus my 4 month old daughter has been doing her best to keep me awake when her brother isn't so perhaps I'm just really over tired and sensitive.
However is it really asking too much just to say something in return instead of just blanking me completely. Now my apologies in advance because I'm tired and being lazy I'm going to resort to some lazy stereotyping and lumping people into the same category as one another which I know that I shouldn't do but I'm really exhausted, running out of brain power and a bit fed up. For starters the other regular guy that I've seen throughout the winter has panniers and my guess is that like me they're going to work and they are the one that always also says hello. Now the 5 people that I saw tonight were all on pretty nice looking racing bikes and none of them had mudguards, racks, panniers, rucksacks or anything to suggest that they were commuting. Therefore I'm making a guess that they were just out to enjoy an evening ride now that the weather is a bit nicer. You'd think that now the weather was nicer they'd be happy to be getting out on the bike and perhaps be courteous enough to return a hello but I just got resolutely ignored by every single one of them.
Maybe the fact that I ride an old and beat up flat bared hybrid did not deem me worthy of acknowledgement but I'd like to think that we're all cyclists together and a friendly hello doesn't do any harm. Perhaps my bike hasn't got anything to do with it and whoever I was & whatever I was riding they wouldn't say hello to a fellow cyclist.
Anyway sorry for a really grumpy long post but I'm just really tired and maybe going a bit delusional now due to sleep deprivation which perhaps left me a bit sensitive to being continuously blanked on todays commute home. Perhaps if even one of them had said hello in return I wouldn't have minded so much but the fact that I was ignored by every single one really got me down.
Sorry for the miserable post and my rant is now over having got this off my check.
Hope that everyones commutes tomorrow go well and hope that everyone has a good weekend if they're not working over it.
John
uclown2002
Guru
- Location
- Harrogate
I was just thinking it'd been a while since one of these posts!
Simontm
Veteran
So a bit of sorting out and I now have a 9-speed until the weekend till I've got the time to sort out the front mech. A bit like going back tone hybrid but I didn't realise how much of the big ring I was using - legs a bit sore for the spinning!
Not much happened but the pillock on Mitchem road that kept RLJ? 3 times I overtook you and I still had plenty of gas even with one ring - don't be an idiot. So numpty count: 1
Not much happened but the pillock on Mitchem road that kept RLJ? 3 times I overtook you and I still had plenty of gas even with one ring - don't be an idiot. So numpty count: 1
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Another late ride home for me - this time at 11-ish rather than midnight-ish - same again though: not a single car, moonlit roads which were mostly dry, no wind, a perfect commute. I was very weary though, can't sleep with a bad tooth after root canal treatment and a bad shoulder AND full moon, and I had a long day out today too, but a good one.
MickeyBlueEyes
Eat, Sleep, Ride, Repeat.
- Location
- Derbyshire
Legs feeling it this morning. Starting to up the mileage and the speed and I'm currently very aware of my thighs!
Can't complain though, had a cracking week this week, hopefully get out at the weekend too.
Can't complain though, had a cracking week this week, hopefully get out at the weekend too.
And it has everything, the whole enchilada, the record fish on the end of a line, it's a record breaker....
