Tales from today's commute....

[Lonestar]

The plus one means he agrees with what you say!

Oh sorry,just didn't want to take the credit.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Great morning ride, felt fresh and ready. Leaving work a little later than normal this afternoon meant I was a bit rushed to get ready for the evening ride, and just made it in time. Bad cramps made it a poor end to the day so I'll spin it out slowly in the morning. Need to find the reason I've started cramping in the calfs during a bit of effort. It's starting to get a bit frustrating just putting the power down and then it comes on and boy it really comes on!

 

[MisterStan]

Took it easy on the way home tonight, but of a headwind but nothing dreadful.

 

[fossyant]

Great afternoon at the velodrome. Topped off before we even started by the ladies GB squad being track centre. 4 of us were like, oh it Jo, Shanaze, Katie, Danny, Jess... The rest of our colleagues hadn't a clue.

Finished with two pints of lager in the cafe.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

So the same again tomorrow gives you the 500 in Mon to Fri commute days?

No, I only did 50 miles on Wednesday.

 

[DWiggy]

Gutted............lost my moon shield 60 rear light on the way in today.....bracket snapped.......

 

[Simontm]

Where is everyone? Absolutely dead till Carshalton (as this commutes wends its weary way into its second year, I reckon that's gonna be my autobiography!)
Quite a few lesser spotteds about, blindly turning or veering into my path or, at one point, taking offence at me overtaking them and trying to keep up ...and that's what a year's commute does to your speed levels. As I expected all turned off at New Malden. Only the damned go to Croydon (or perhaps that should be the title? )
Numpty count: 0

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

What a fabulous morning weather wise! Perfect riding conditions, shame I had only enough time for a standard ride. My own fault though, note to self: When your alarm goes off at 04:40 DO NOT go downstairs and sit on the sofa.... zzz zzz zzz, dagnamit, it's now 05:40...

 

[jsalinas]

At the moment there is a cyclists dismount on the Bristol and Bath path, where they have narrowed the path to just about one bike wide. I've only done it in the afternoon when it's very civilised and instead cyclists just wait at either end, no idea what it's like in the morning though, when you get more of the Strava racing idiots. Since the area is just being used to store stuff I don't know why they couldn't have made it a couple of feet wider to allow two way traffic.

Well, at Sunbury Lock it's actually quite wide. They just have this double gate thing at the end that makes you really almost stop dead on your tracks. In the mornings there's no one around at all, at least not when I go past it at 06:30...

 

[DrLex]

Gutted............lost my moon shield 60 rear light on the way in today.....bracket snapped.......

Unlucky! That happened to me, but I heard it fall off, so I stopped to retrieve it. Superglued into place and I now detach the strap when charging it. Planet-X had the areo branded version sub-£20; may be worth watching for a repeat?

 

[DWiggy]

Unlucky! That happened to me, but I heard it fall off, so I stopped to retrieve it. Superglued into place and I now detach the strap when charging it. Planet-X had the areo branded version sub-£20; may be worth watching for a repeat?

Just ordered another on on-line, £25 but this time I'm going to put a dab of silicone on the back just in case.

 

[Ciar]

yes always seem to have the same, south to north, then north to south. Always a headwind. I guess it is like smoke from a fire, wherever one stands, the smoke follows.
Got some freeloader who just drafted all the way while i had headwind. Still, great training for the legs

I find that as well people drafting me on my hybrid while they are on road bikes, as much as it builds my legs i wish they wouldn't do right at the end of my commute!

 

[Simon_m]

i think it is some kinda ego boost for them.

Good ride today, had a taxi driver be nice!! he was surprised to see a cyclist stopped at the lights, so we had a nice chat as some riders did go through red lights happy days.
(lots of taxis go through red lights too and have found myself shouting at taxi drivers "and thats why everyone is using uber" as they cut me up lol)

 

[LoftusRoadie]

After all the pedestrians yesterday, coming into London this morning along Whitechapel Road it felt a bit like a ghost town. Nothing much of note except I noticed that my Strave auto-pause doesn't seem to work - even if I stop for a minute it still keeps counting the seconds..

 

[Simontm]

Oof, that was hot. 83 in old money according to the bike thingy.
Again the traffic disappeared after Carshalton, has everyone gone on holiday?

Popped into Halfords to pick up some High 5 tablets (well it's price matched online so £3.69) and the bike demanded a blood sacrifice from me for doing so, so a couple of bloody dents in my shin

Numpty count:0