Tales from today's commute....

[Mo1959]

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.

Is it daily mileage or single rides it is based on? Think mine is 48 if I remember correctly and I don't think I'll be bothering to change it. Lol

 

[ianrauk]

Is it daily mileage or single rides it is based on? Think mine is 48 if I remember correctly and I don't think I'll be bothering to change it. Lol

Single rides.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Is it daily mileage or single rides it is based on? Think mine is 48 if I remember correctly and I don't think I'll be bothering to change it. Lol

Daily mileage is the correct way though I think @ianrauk 105 is all single rides which is bloody amazing. I'm aiming to get to 100 firstly in daily mileage and eventually in single rides, will take a fair few years for that!

 

[ianrauk]

Daily mileage is the correct way though I think @ianrauk 105 is all single rides which is bloody amazing. I'm aiming to get to 100 firstly in daily mileage and eventually in single rides, will take a fair few years for that!

I think we should bring in @deptfordmarmoset here to adjudicate.

 

[Andrew Br]

............... 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.

Good spot .
I have to admit by that time in the ride, I wasn't paying too much attention to who was going by although I was still saying "hello".
I was wearing a silver helmet, white/blue SS shirt and riding a black disc braked bike with red hubs. I think I'd put my front light on by that time as well.

 

[Origamist]

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.

Strava 1 - Human interaction 0

Sorry I missed you. I'm on "grim face" auto pilot for those last 3 miles from Middlewich to Sandbach. I've even been known to blank my fiancé as she waves and shouts my name.

Good, steady ride home. Might take the carbon bike out tmrw for a bit of free speed.

 

[Hacienda71]

Good spot .
I have to admit by that time in the ride, I wasn't paying too much attention to who was going by although I was still saying "hello".
I was wearing a silver helmet, white/blue SS shirt and riding a black disc braked bike with red hubs. I think I'd put my front light on by that time as well.

Think I nodded. I was going fairly quickly on a matt black bike with deep section wheels with red hubs and brakes

 

[Hacienda71]

Strava 1 - Human interaction 0

Sorry I missed you. I'm on "grim face" auto pilot for those last 3 miles from Middlewich to Sandbach. I've even been known to blank my fiancé as she waves and shouts my name.

Good, steady ride home. Might take the carbon bike out tmrw for a bit of free speed.

Only realised it was you about 3 seconds after we had passed eachother.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I think we should bring in @deptfordmarmoset here to adjudicate.

I'm no expert in these matters. But it should, I think, be done in a day to qualify - saying ''day'', I'd take a day to be a consecutive 24-hour period, because otherwise night rides wouldn't count as they straddle 2 days. So those hardy souls who do SNRbtH (or whatever the acronym is) should be able to claim the whole lot as one ride.

In the end, though, there is no Eddington Court of Adjudication so it's all to do with the spirit of the thing rather than the rules.

 

[JMT]

Interesting commute home last night. First commute puncture, my fault really as I was asked by a work mate if I had a puncture yet and I said no so tempting fate really, walked down to the cycle shed 4 hours later and ta-da flat rear, no real drama as I had a spare tube with me. Then had my first clipless pedal moment, fell of while virtually stationary obviously in front of a long queue of traffic, at least it gave them something to smile about :-). An then nearly knocked off by a car turning right across me and the driver only looking left, still had a feeling he was going to do it so had already started to take evasive action before he moved.

Starting to feel like a real cycle commuter.

Still a great ride home with a light tailwind and lots of sun, oh and much quicker as the puncture delay mean't less traffic :-)

 

[Origamist]

Nice riding conditions - about 13C and a gentle tailwind.

Have pretty much given up on the one mile straight that is Tatton Wall - I now take a 0.6 mile detour to avoid it.

I'm blaming increased tyre wear and my recent carcass shredding on the crappy surface dressing that now makes up quite a few miles of my commute. If I can squeeze 27mm Vittoria Open Paves under the mudguards, I'm going to go with them for extra comfort.

 

[biggs682]

Using my commute to do some testing miles on one of my latest finds apart from saddle all going well

 

[fossyant]

Bumped into @Schneil last night on the way home. Had a dawdle with him down the 'floop'. Got passed by a few folk and one shouted 'I've never caught and passed you'. He was quite chuffed.

This morning was a bit different. Good pace in and picked up a chap on a PX RT58 with Ultegra. I set the pace down Windmill Lane and he took over at Dane Bank. I was hanging on at 25 mph and the fact he had 21 more gears than me. We both spent more time pointing out holes to each other as we were sat on the back wheel.

Record fast ride in and pouring in sweat.

 

[summerdays]

This morning I managed to get a fly in my eye that really really irritated it.

And the return journey I think I managed to catch too much sun.... Just feeling a little pink as I didnt think it was going to be sunny, they said warm, muggy and cloudy so I didn't put the normal amount of sunscreen on!

 

[DrLex]

This morning I managed to get a fly in my eye that really really irritated it.[...]