summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Well breezy but not such that it was demoralizing ... and Irish rain ... the sort that is soft and very very wet!!!
Tales from today's commute....
- Thread starter martint235
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Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
%$£^^$£^$^ WIND!!
Captain Slackbladder
Regular
- Location
- Newcastle
Brutal headwind travelling east to west this morning. Ditched the road bike and used the cycle paths on the hybrid...
glenn forger
Guest
Had to detour because armed siege. Outside the railway station Norwich on Sunday, old bill told me to go round.
I had to detour on Friday eve...couple of roads in the City of London closed off (at 7pm on a FRIDAY EVENING!!) to film flipping Taggart.
Armed siege-ists and crap tv makers have no consideration for the average velociraptor.
Well, that was cr@p.
First off - waiting in ASL at red light to go straight on - could I have taken a more central primary position? Suppose, but no other traffic around me.
In comes a motorbike courier to my right hand side (his company shall remain nameless for now), straight to the ASL, I check the back of his bike to see if there's an indicator, can't see anything (that's not to say for sure, but there weren't nothing flashing that I could see). Lights go green, I pedal off and whaddaya know, he turns towards me and going left, toots his horn. I stop and ask 'What are you doing!?' considering he nearly clipped me. He then gives me a load of expletives, to which I just reply 'Why were you even in the ASL?' Queue a load more expletives and then he attempted to launch some weird type of head/chest butt at me, but was a good foot/half a foot too far away from me, and proceeded to speed off. I've got it all on cam.
Next one was half my fault - coming up to lights, they're amber, I'm about 10 metres away, so as I should do, I stop (in the middle). Some goon in a minivan then squeezes to my right and sits right level with me (no ASL) - why?!!? Anyway, irked by this moron and the incident that happened 5 minutes earlier, when pedalling off, I completely missed the pedal, pedal whacks up and hits my achilles, I'm all over the place...
...then I finally ride home.
Fed up. Gimme a beer.
First off - waiting in ASL at red light to go straight on - could I have taken a more central primary position? Suppose, but no other traffic around me.
In comes a motorbike courier to my right hand side (his company shall remain nameless for now), straight to the ASL, I check the back of his bike to see if there's an indicator, can't see anything (that's not to say for sure, but there weren't nothing flashing that I could see). Lights go green, I pedal off and whaddaya know, he turns towards me and going left, toots his horn. I stop and ask 'What are you doing!?' considering he nearly clipped me. He then gives me a load of expletives, to which I just reply 'Why were you even in the ASL?' Queue a load more expletives and then he attempted to launch some weird type of head/chest butt at me, but was a good foot/half a foot too far away from me, and proceeded to speed off. I've got it all on cam.
Next one was half my fault - coming up to lights, they're amber, I'm about 10 metres away, so as I should do, I stop (in the middle). Some goon in a minivan then squeezes to my right and sits right level with me (no ASL) - why?!!? Anyway, irked by this moron and the incident that happened 5 minutes earlier, when pedalling off, I completely missed the pedal, pedal whacks up and hits my achilles, I'm all over the place...
...then I finally ride home.
Fed up. Gimme a beer.
MisterStan
Label Required
- Location
- Out there somewhere
Another visit coming home. Suspect I stopped looking for the culprit from this morning too easily....
Very strong winds coming home, huge gusts from the side and later straight into it.
Very strong winds coming home, huge gusts from the side and later straight into it.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Windy, that is all
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
A bit of a contrast my commutes today. Wet, cloudy and still on the way in (when the forecasted wind would have been behind me) and Dry, sunny and windy tonight. Went by the rail path for the first time tonight to get a bit of cover. My thoughts to it. Its ok a bit rippled with tree roots, just out of town its got a whole load of bends with zero vis (could see a whole lot of accidents/conflicts happening there) and when you are a bit out of town it becomes loose surfaced, so I left it there. On the whole its a useful route in and out of town for some but I still prefer the road. It worked tonight though in giving me shelter from the wind 
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
70 miler in fact. Head Wind on the way to Crewe. Wet roads and a quick shower, but that was it. 2 hours 8 mins and 5 seconds there and 10 seconds slower coming home despite so called westerly... Hmmm.
Bit stiff and sore now.
Bit stiff and sore now.
markharry66
Guru
Nob head central last night on way home. Lots of people ignoring high winds and just punting the throttle on their chav wagons.
This morning not so bad where is the summer?
This morning not so bad where is the summer?
