Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Same as me.
4 day a week commute. Monday to Thursday.

And lots on a Friday night /saturday in the dark.

 

[ianrauk]

And lots on a Friday night /saturday in the dark.

Lots? Only 12

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Same as me.
4 day a week commute. Monday to Thursday.

Tuesday to Friday for me, I play football (very badly) on a Monday night so drive to work. Though am tempted to ride in the summer, will mean a very hilly 12 mile ride home, but since I am doing 15 flatish miles at the minute, I reckon I might manage it by the summer. Plus I am hoping to have a road bike by then.

 

[fossyant]

Car home, via an ultrascan on my undercarriage bearings. Result = bearings not dropping off (£150 private checkup with my bits on a 37" wide screen ), but still in pain. Off tomorrow anyway, but back Thurs on the bike (can't be doing with sitting in a nice comfy car when I can get wet/muddy on a bike).

 

[ianrauk]

Tuesday to Friday for me, I play football (very badly) on a Monday night so drive to work. Though am tempted to ride in the summer, will mean a very hilly 12 mile ride home, but since I am doing 15 flatish miles at the minute, I reckon I might manage it by the summer. Plus I am hoping to have a road bike by then.

By the time summer comes around, you will have the new bike hopefully and you will be flying on your commute

 

[ianrauk]

Car home, via an ultrascan on my undercarriage bearings. Result = bearings not dropping off (£150 private checkup with my bits on a 37" wide screen ), but still in pain. Off tomorrow anyway, but back Thurs on the bike (can't be doing with sitting in a nice comfy car when I can get wet/muddy on a bike).

Sounds a right load of bollocks mate..
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Sorry

 

[400bhp]

Took the main road to work today, two sets of lights, two ASL's, bus blocking them both times. I pulled up and tapped on the window and pointed out her error, she actually apologised.
Coming home saw three "ninja" cyclists and was told to feck off by two when I suggested they get lights Of the three lit-up cyclists one almost got squished at the RAB by an apparently blind driver who pulled out in front of him.
I seemed to attract the most impatient of motorists and had revving and beeping behind me with them trying to edge round me. One was a teacher from my girls' school.

Go up to him/her in front of their pupils and give them a dressing down, polite of course.

 

[400bhp]

Someone was trying very hard to keep on my wheel tonight. I gave it the "I'm not looking behind as I'm not arsed"look, but was flogging my guts out as the wind was in my face. Got to some lights and was nowhere to be seen.

 

[ianrauk]

Someone was trying very hard to keep on my wheel tonight. I gave it the "I'm not looking behind as I'm not arsed"look, but was flogging my guts out as the wind was in my face. Got to some lights and was nowhere to be seen.

We've all been there...

 

[ianrauk]

[QUOTE 2187400, member: 1314"]Very busy on the roads with cyclists, few motorbikes/mopeds but usual amount of cars/vans/trucks etc. Very cold as well. Why are 99.9% of riders faster than me? To boost the ego I always end up having to overtake some newbie on tracksuits pushing a paisley. I'm still pushing the 52x18 which is making me stronger but need to get the 42x16 back on the road.[/quote]


User.. they may be faster, but do they look as good as you do on a bike? No is the answer.

 

[potsy]

Riding home at 6am in 0c
Roads are quite wet so potential for black ice out there, nice quiet incident free commute.

Colleagues scraping their windscreens is always a pleassant sight, and a comment of 'thought there was a fire engine out here' as a guy came out of the building and stood behind me with my rear lights on full

 

[400bhp]

Riding home at 6am in 0c
Roads are quite wet so potential for black ice out there

A "technical rlj'er" nearly got his commupance because of ice this morning.

He overtook me at a set of lights at probably the busiest junction on my route (although it was relatively quiet) to jump onto a shared use cycle path (poor form, not least as he went past me very close on my right). Then about 150 yards down the road, attempted to go back on the road down a dropped kerb. Inevitably the back end stepepd out and cue him snaking down the road. Managed to stay upright, but was extremely lucky there were no cars passing (or me for that matter-didn't fancy getting wiped out).

I went past (as I had passed him about 2 miles earlier and suspect he must have been playing RLJ all the way down the A56) and told him much easier to just wait at red like everyone else, then left him to it.

 

[mrmacmusic]

Weird one this morning – Garmin says it dipped to a positively balmy +2°C, but it felt colder than the -2°C I had been expecting looking at the forecast, and there seemed to be lots more icy patches about.

I'm still getting to grips (literally) with riding on ice and re-frozen slush with the Marathon Winters, but there's absolutely no question had I not fitted them, I'd have had several 'offs' every day this week. Whilst I'm really enjoying my first winter commuting, I don't like how all the frozen ruts and tracks want to steer my bike for me....

 

[BSRU]

Slightly colder than yesterday but no ice or frost anywhere.
I think the difference was instead of clear skies it was cloudy.

 

[Edwards80]

Nearly ended up on my backside a couple of times this morn. Coming out of my road was icy/frosty and nearly caught me out and some bits of the A560 were a little dodgy, more frost than ice I expect. Locked the front wheel up coming to a set of lights :S

A bus driver letting passengers off whilst not at a bus stop and next to a cycle lane was an interesting one, fortunately heard and saw the doors open, still scared the crap out of the gent who got off though when he saw me.