Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

Thought I was going to get absolutely drenched this morning. But the heavy rain didn't materialise. More of a faint drizzle. By the time I walked in the door at work it started to teem it down.
From hardly any commuting cyclists in good weather last week, to a good few today. Is the damp weather bringing out the hard core?

The last full week this week of school holidays and light traffic.

 

[Origamist]

Bit chilly, but not too windy.

From mech is playing up again. Seriously tempted to go to a single ring set-up for commuting

 

[Wolf616]

Turned left out of my road and noticed the traffic lights about 20 metres ahead were on green so decided to stand up and go for it without bothering to move over to the left (there's a massive pothole on the left hand side just after the traffic lights anyway). Some peanut decided to toot their horn at me for the inconvenience of losing twenty seconds of their time and then raced past me (to their credit, it was not a close pass). I got the last laugh, though, as at the next set of traffic lights less than 500 metres down the road I pulled directly in front of them in the special cycling box, which I imagine infuriated them further. As they overtook me again I gave a cheery wave that I hope leaves them fuming for the rest of their day.

I realise this is quite silly behaviour, and in some respects is damaging to the image of 'cyclists', but sometimes I just can't resist... Particularly with someone so impatient that behaving less antagonistically would not have changed their opinion on cyclists anyway

 

[Simontm]

Thought I was going to get absolutely drenched this morning. But the heavy rain didn't materialise. More of a faint drizzle. By the time I walked in the door at work it started to teem it down.
From hardly any commuting cyclists in good weather last week, to a good few today. Is the damp weather bringing out the hard core?

The last full week this week of school holidays and light traffic.

Due to various job-related things, I'm not cycling so miss this last quiet week on a bike

 

[martint235]

I have a horrible feeling about the commute home!!! And I think it's probably time to put at least one of my front lights back on. Bye bye summer.

 

[ianrauk]

I have a horrible feeling about the commute home!!! And I think it's probably time to put at least one of my front lights back on. Bye bye summer.

The rain is so heavy at the moment.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Lashing it down here at the minute, might be a short ride home.

 

[martint235]

Soaked! Also a bit twitchy, I think it's cos this is the first really bad weather I've commuted in for a while and I'm not sure the drivers have really taken on board how bad it is out there.

And the guy on the South Circular in heavy traffic: you're either not very good at cycling in a straight line or your "stay away from me" deliberate wobbles are really impressive!!!!

 

[ianrauk]

What a great commute home. It was very mild, the rain wasn't too heavy and I was pushed all the way home by a lovely tailwind. The cyclist on the A21 who kept looking back to see if I was still behind him whilst he was busting a gut out of the saddle to lose me. You looked very surprised every time you saw me. You were very out of breath at the traffic lights when I pulled up a couple of seconds later. You could hardly say a word when I mentioned the rain.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Got a little bit wet tonight! The waterproof rucksack that I am testing worked very well.

 

[Spike on a bike]

Was a tad bit wet on my commute home this afternoon
Rain was hammering it down for a good two hours before I left off
Lots of oh your gonna get wet from work colleagues and to be fair they weren't wrong
Very twitchy coming out of the estate which is basically a warehouse logistic site so plenty of diesel and general truck crap on the roads

Gave up avoiding the puddles after about 100 yards on the actual highway

Nice headwind all the way home

And it looks like it might be much the same tomorrow

 

[Origamist]

Dry and mainly a tailwind. Result.

Had a buzzard fly out from a verge almost into the side of me. The buzzard was so shocked it dropped the mouse from its beak!

 

[Jenkins]

Very wet on the way in this afternoon but it was needed to cool the sunburn on the back of my legs (from spectating at the British GT meeting at Snetterton).

Much dryer and light winds on the way home made it quite enjoyable, but I did get a very close pass from a bat.

 

[Ciar]

windy but heyho no rain so kinda winning ;-)

 

[L Q]

Got mega lucky yesterday as I stayed dry all day, uneventful ride into work and checked the lightning maps before setting off home last night and storm were over Newark/Grantham area and it was still dry once I got back into Lincoln so I did a few extra miles on top.

Ride in this morning the wind had certainly picked up and it was quite hard from mile 3-17 then for the last 6 I just took it a lot steadier.