Tales from today's commute....

[Tin Pot]

Decided to run home again today as it's been a long while.

Throat felt sore after half an hour.

Started feeling queasy after 3/4 hr.

Stopped and got the train after an hour (!)

Pity as my legs were just settling into a rhythmn. My own fault for picking a really hot day in the City.

 

[Simontm]

Decided to run home again today as it's been a long while.

Throat felt sore after half an hour.

Started feeling queasy after 3/4 hr.

Stopped and got the train after an hour (!)

Pity as my legs were just settling into a rhythmn. My own fault for picking a really hot day in the City.

What is this run you speak of?

 

[Spartak]

Spotted on last nights commute ......

 

[summerdays]

I couldn't see any when I had to go to Parkway to pick up the kids. However my commute on Monday may take a bit of a wiggle as I try to spot some!

 

[I like Skol]

Retro ride to work tonight on my/my son’s 1991 Raleigh Vitesse. Lovely bike and still feels tight and new despite its age. It’s amazing how quickly I swapped back to using the downtube shifters effectively, even when riding in traffic and sprinting to fit in gaps and swapping lanes etc. One thing I did notice is how crisp the indexing seems to be compared to modern brifters. I reckon the shorter, more direct cable route makes a big difference here?
Will have to take this bike on a forum ride sometime and show you 21st century carbon boys how it should be done. Might extend my route home in the morning

 

[Torvi]

met a guy testing his broadman with SRAM, funny enough i was testing my planetx with SRAM too, there similiarites ended, he hated it i loved it haha

 

[L Q]

Commute to work yesterday was lovely, the commute home was a cracker till I got 2 miles from home and heard my back tyre give way, got a nice slash across the tyre so new one needed, it's ages since I last had a puncture so was expecting one soon, shame it's cost me a tyre as well. Bugger!

 

[Torvi]

Commute to work yesterday was lovely, the commute home was a cracker till I got 2 miles from home and heard my back tyre give way, got a nice slash across the tyre so new one needed, it's ages since I last had a puncture so was expecting one soon, shame it's cost me a tyre as well. Bugger!

charge your workplace as "accident on the way from work" and make them pay for it haha

 

[J1888]

Been on holiday for two weeks (Croatia, which I would recommend to everyone) so my first commute in a while is tomorrow morning. Quite nervous!

 

[summerdays]

Been on holiday for two weeks (Croatia, which I would recommend to everyone) so my first commute in a while is tomorrow morning. Quite nervous!

That's where my eldest is on holiday at the moment and enjoying themselves!

 

[J1888]

That's where my eldest is on holiday at the moment and enjoying themselves!

Dad?

Hehe.

Na, it's bloody brilliant - Zagreb was ace, Split is sensational...Dubrovnik less so.

Cracking country.

 

[summerdays]

That's good cos they are in Split! Mucking around in the sea and going out to explore the old town tonight.

 

[J1888]

That's good cos they are in Split! Mucking around in the sea and going out to explore the old town tonight.

It's cracking - great history and a town very proud of their football team, Hajduk Split.

 

[Simontm]

quite a quiet ride in with hardly any traffic again which was odd. Weather was a nice 15 degrees or so.
Alas numpty count:1
As I turned right at the roundabout to go through to Carshalton, builders' van bombed out from my left, turning right and nearly clipped me.

 

[HarryTheDog]

TDF seems to have inspired people again, this morning was full of cyclists going my way, saw 3 in the first 3 miles , which has never happened before. Then lots more once I got into town, nobody serious to play with till Barking, I overtook a guy ( mid 30’s ?) on a white croix de fer, who then decided to stick to me for the next 4 or 5 miles. He had the speed to go past me, just lacked the backbone and good manners to do his turn. I did not knock myself out I was not there to give him a tow in.