Tales from today's commute....

[martint235]

Amazing lack of traffic on the way home. It was like cycling on a Saturday morning, the only real traffic I saw was as it bunched for roadworks and stuff

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I got caught in the rain tonight, bucketed down for a mile or so then stopped, with the wind I was nice and dry by the time I got home though

 

[Bazzer]

Despite my efforts with paper towels, my socks, shoes and shorts were in varius stages of dampness from the morning's soaking. More fail continuing the morning's events. Thought I'd try a new route home using a National Cycle Route as part of the journey. Start of the NCR was fine, then paths sprouting up in varius directions. Ended up on the side of a very overgrown and in places very narrow canal path.. Eventually ditched the plan and resorted to instinct, which led to me to a road I knew.
Eventually ended up on the East Lancs Road into the teeth of the Westerly breeze.
Bonus was when I turned off the East Lancs and a couple of drivers patiently waited for a safe passing place as I kept getting caught by wind swirls.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

I got caught in the rain tonight, bucketed down for a mile or so then stopped, with the wind I was nice and dry by the time I got home though

There was certainly some real dark clouds heading over to you that I saw on my way home. It was a way in front of me so I just got its floor mess

 

[Jenkins]

First day back at work after a week off. 8pm finish and I really could have done with arm warmers and leg warmers. And waterproofs.

When does summer start?

 

[Bazzer]

British summers eh? Soaked yesterday, dazzled by the sun today!
Saw only two cyclists on the journey, but they were as contrasting as the consecutive day's weather. Lady cyclist in Flixton on a hub geared shopping bike complete with whicker basket looking relaxed as she travelled at 15 - 16 mph. Later a brief encounter with a male commuter cyclist in Salford travelling at 20mph. Rode in primary for about 250 metres, ignoring the separated cycle lane and red lights.

 

[summerdays]

Warmer than I was expecting (weather man had gone on about cool night so I though it would be a cool start).

 

[markharry66]

Van turning out of a road turning right swang out with out looking as white van parked on corner, pulled breaks hard asked "why did you pull out right in front of me". His answer i couldnt see. Polite response (edited version) then why pull out?.
Small bus as going past a school must have been parents evening as all cars parked up both sides of the road (its a long walk from alternative parking less than two yards down the road). Stop for single decker to come straight through no space ...... time to get bus today.

 

[ianrauk]

muggy....a muggy morning... traffic was meh though... backed up everywhere.. very frustrating.
I made an oops though.. RAB I thought the car ahead was going straight forward. He was indicating right but it just didn't register with me, I must have been away with the fairies. Anyway, we both went and we both had to do a quick stop. I then woke up an apologised.

 

[MisterStan]

Warmer than I thought it would be, could have done without the base layer. A bit of sun too, which was nice.

 

[Origamist]

Was enjoying the heat yesterday, but then an instant deflation at 25mph. Rear went squirrely, but stopped OK as a passing point was conveniently 10 metres away. Checked the tyre and saw the carcass of the Conti was torn right through, nearly 2cm. Not a problem I thought, as I always carry a tyre boot. Went into my bidon and lo and behold it was missing! The nearest train station was only 2K away so I patched the tube and tyre and hoped for the best. 500 meters later….pssssss. Was now unsure whether to walk or cycle the last mile, decided to cycle, so patched it up again and got within 50 metres of the station before it went again… Luckily a train was due in 4 mins and I could get picked up at the other end…

New tyre boots purchased and new F&R tyres fitted!

Warm this morning, but busy – it’s the Cheshire Show nr Knutsford and this means more Evoques and Cayennes on the road.

Starting to get tan lines too!

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Nice ride in this morning. Saw 'Winter Guy again, I wonder if he is adopting the 'sweat-it-out-of-you' theme...

Had a meeting starting @ 8am so cut the ride short a little. Perfect timing into meeting room to see people just leaving as it had been cancelled... There's 10 miles that I'll never get back...

 

[Hacienda71]

Needed to take a picture of a building in Crewe this afternoon, so as you do I stuck an extra 40 miles on the normal commute. Nice ride with not much to note. Think I saw @Origamist on the road between Middlewich and Sandbach but only realised after I had crossed with him, It was the determined expression that gave him away. Checked flyby on Strava to see if he had logged his ride and saw that I had crossed with @Andrew Br of this parish on Pexhill. As I have never met Andrew Br, I had even less chance of recognising him before we crossed than I did of Origamist who I have met.

 

[Captain Slackbladder]

The moment you think to yourself it's been a while since the last flat tyre...3 in 4 days!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yesterdays tale: Got to play cowboy on the way to work. Went round a corner and there are cows bloody everywhere, young uns, old uns, ones with horns and some right mean looking uns. Me and a woman ended up herding them into a field. She said she would go around the farms to find out whose they were, but they were still in the same field when I went by this morning.

Also took my Eddington number to 84 yesterday, so to celebrate did 100 miles (spread over four rides) today - only another 59 hundreds to go to get to 100.