Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Tiny bit of friendly SCR coming out of Manchester. Passed a lad on a road bike and he slotted in behind. Eventually pulled up beside me near Levenshulme and said 'those lights are bright'. I said 'yes they are'. He replied 'I tried following you but couldn't see'. Me 'oops they destroy your night vision'. Explained they were from China and 3w and he mentioned they were brighter than the cars. His lights weren't up to much though, no Smarts etc. parted and said Cheerio.

 

[400bhp]

Tiny bit of friendly SCR coming out of Manchester. Passed a lad on a road bike and he slotted in behind. Eventually pulled up beside me near Levenshulme and said 'those lights are bright'. I said 'yes they are'. He replied 'I tried following you but couldn't keep up see'. Me 'oops they destroy your night vision'. Explained they were from China and 3w and he mentioned they were brighter than the cars. His lights weren't up to much though, no Smarts etc. parted and said Cheerio.

 

[Matthew_T]

Excellent stuff..I like the way you sped the film up and did chuckle at the feet.
These type of vids - brilliant
Cam warrior stuff - not so.

Well I havent had any drivers worth uploading recently. The bad weather must be making everyone come over all courteous.

 

[donnydave]

are you referring to the busway/Fen Drayton?

no, Earith causeway, the bit between the two bridges.

 

[MisterStan]

no, Earith causeway, the bit between the two bridges.

I saw that was flooded. The busway is ridiculous, just been told the Low Road is flooded and parts of Fen Drayton too. Should be interesting tomorrow!

 

[donnydave]

Can't wait till tomorrow, the mrs works south of cambridge and she's joining me in the morning to hoist her bike aloft and bravely paddle through the murky depths. It will easily be quicker than driving round the alternative route.

 

[MisterStan]

Can't wait till tomorrow, the mrs works south of cambridge and she's joining me in the morning to hoist her bike aloft and bravely paddle through the murky depths. It will easily be quicker than driving round the alternative route.

good luck!

 

[martint235]

I now ahve 3 sets of temporary lights on my commute. Is this a record? All of them are on stretches of road that have been dug up in the last 6 months.

Also to the guy on the South Circular, sorry I know you were really wrapped up warm but when your opening comment to the guy in shorts (me) was "A bit fresh isn't it?", I almost had a giggling fit.

And the guy south of Penge, I'm happy to play SCR but if you're going to hop on the pavement to get round temporary lights I will be upset and when I catch you I will pass you at speed while shouting "T****r".

Other than that quite a pleasant commute and DRY!!!

 

[400bhp]

Not as cold as I thought it was going to be this morning & wrapped up too much.

Had a nice chat with a fellow commuter - he nearly got bowled over in town by some silly woman that jumped out of the passenger seat. She got a real fright when he shouted. I suspect she would have taken both of us down if we arrived a second earlier.

Roads are quiet this week?

 

[donnydave]

Well that was a bit of an anti climax this morning. Got to the flooded bit just outside Earith, there was a truck towing away a stranded car. Said a cheery hello to the bloke doing the towing whilst taking my shoes off and rolling my trousers up. Bloke stared at us like we were mad and said the fire brigade had to get a dinghy out to the stranded car in the night and he would advise we didn't go through. Fair enough, good advice. I told him I came through last night on my way home and it looked about the same depth (mid-shin, less than a full wellington). He re-iterated that it wasn't a good idea. Whilst we had been talking, the wife had already set off and was half way across. I replied with "what could possibly go wrong?" and set off with my bike on my shoulder. Possibly a bit cavalier and if I got swept away then I deserved it but the water was as I judged it to be and mrs and I got through fine. She even had the luxury of wellies so had nice dry feet, stuffed the wellies in her pannier on the other side. I switched to secondary socks, shoes on and off we went with a 15mph tail wind.

 

[400bhp]

^^LEGEND^^


Or insane

 

[donnydave]

So long as no one says photo or it didn't happen, I did think about stopping to take a picture but that would have been a step too far after laughing in the face of fear and tweaking the nose of terror

 

[thefollen]

On my Trek 1.5 roadie today. After a set of lights I was slipstreamed and overtaken by an old boy wearing brown trousers and loafers on a Dahon folder. I wasn't 'going for it' but still, hats off the chap, raised a smile.

At the next junction I lost him- but that's the spirit I like to see!

 

[ianrauk]

Well that was tough work this morning, bleedin' headwind. What's the betting it doesn't mean for a nice tailwind on the way home. At least the roads were dry for the first time this week
My legs had nothing really today. I couldn't even to be arsed to play SCR with a chap on a really nice Bottecchia, (don't see many of those on my commute).

Saw a dead badger.. all mashed up.. big bugger too.

 

[MisterStan]

Took the long and non-flooded route into work - it made a really nice change going on the roads instead of using the cycle path next to the Busway. Ended up doing just shy of 21 miles in 1 hr 15 mins.
Only a couple of close passes on the roads, the worst of which was by some stupid bint who had waited for me to go around a roundabout (and therefore must have seen me!) and then nearly skimmed my handlebars, I shouted something rude at her and carried on. It was a bit chillier to start with but once i got going i warmed up pretty quickly.