Tales from today's commute....

[confusedcyclist]

Wet, humid and windy, I thought it was spring time now! Sore thighs after a spinning class yesterday too, still beats sitting in traffic!!!

 

[DWiggy]

Garmin packed up on a quick ride in..bummer, All charged up now for the ride home....looking windy out there already

 

[J1888]

Windy out this morning.

A decent enough ride, spoiled by a prat in a mini-van who took offence to me riding in primary from a set of lights towards a mini-roundabout, where I was going to turn right.

I'll be ringing his company at lunchtime.

 

[BigCoops]

Damp but calm at 6 this morning = 25 minutes in.

Flipping windy but dry on the way back = 28 minutes home.

Lots of twigs and a few branches on the lanes, which made for a dicey ride back in places, nothing like a blind bend with a branch lying across the road just after it...

 

[peedee]

I was cycling home, with my 2½ year old daughter in her seat, asleep.

lol - the last time I carried my daughter in her cycle seat I got home to find that she'd helped herself to all the biscuits she could find in my back pockets.

 

[Panter]

Watching the trees outside the window nearly bending over double, I'm actually a little bit nervous about the journey home!

 

[benb]

lol - the last time I carried my daughter in her cycle seat I got home to find that she'd helped herself to all the biscuits she could find in my back pockets.

Haha, I admire her resourcefulness.
At least it wasn't energy gels!

 

[MisterStan]

Haha, I admire her resourcefulness.
At least it wasn't energy gels!

Imagine the mess!

 

[ChrisEyles]

Bloomin' heck - just checked the BBC and there're 44mph gusts of winds predicted around here for the ride home - *gulp*. Good luck to anyone braving the winds tonight!

 

[LoftusRoadie]

Commute took me 80 minutes on Friday morning. Today it took me 99 minutes! Very windy but I survived. Looks like it's going to be very windy on the way home too - hope it's a tail wind this time.

 

[Jayaly]

Bloomin' heck - just checked the BBC and there're 44mph gusts of winds predicted around here for the ride home - *gulp*. Good luck to anyone braving the winds tonight!

I'm bracing myself to face it now. The child seat acts like a sail, so I'm either going to make it home in record time, arrive home some time tomorrow or end up in a hedge. Wish I'd checked the forecast this morning.

 

[Rustybucket]

Im wimping out tomorrow - do not fancy 40+mph Headwinds!!!!!

 

[Simontm]

I...hate...headwinds.

SW winds? Straight into me. Jeez! All the way home Made a couple of fellas laugh when I said that at the Brighton Road junction! Took 2mph of my usual average.

Numpty count: 3 alas one unobservant c...van driver overtook me coming diagonally into the pinch point, gleefully ignoring how much I was being blown around. One girl just kept going and nearly had me over her bonnet and one lady pulled out causing me to go into her side road to avoid siding her

 

[Tomtrumps]

Blimey, after a balmy ride in this morning (where some were very overdressed!) tonight was hell! That's the windiest I've commuted in, worse than the high winds of a few weeks ago. And it felt like a head wind all the way home.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Got rained on for around ten minutes when leaving this morning, which was enough to soak me through. Hindsight tells me I should of waited before leaving the house. If I'd of done that I guarantee it would of rained constantly until 4pm... Anyhow, mild as you like meant a pretty enjoyable, although much reduced, trip in. The return leg tonight, slow, heavy going, wet windy... Just this week to get out of the way then a decent spell forecast once again