Tales from today's commute....

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L Q

Über Member
Location
Woodhall Spa
The last few morning have been nice and fresh and very little wind.

Big thanks to the grass cutters on the water railway who have left all the debris on the pathway, how I haven't got a puncture I will never know.
 

fossyant

Ride It Like You Stole It!
Location
South Manchester
Decent ride this morning. Overcast and dull so popped my lights on. As a joined the Floop a chap on a Boardman passed. Off I took and I recognised him as one of the more rapid commuters. Started to gain on him but lost out at each of the styals as he could get away quicker with gears. He then dropped me on the slightly downhill sections. Eventually caught him and had a brief chat.
 

Ciar

Veteran
Location
London
Easy going riding this week, slight detour yesterday due to the incident down Leytonstone high street, so i did the romford road forest gate and into Wanstead route, added a few miles and it was nice to have a bit of different scenery even if it was for the completely wrong reasons, hope the person concerned recovers :sad:
 
Nice ride in this morning, 18 miles and 174 meters of climbing on mainly empty roads. Had one close pass but I did get a toot of appreciation from a very friendly lorry which hung behind me until I moved in to a lay by to let him pass. Looking forward to the ride home, mainly downhill but got a few kickers to contend with at the start and end.
 

Karlt

Well-Known Member
To avoid the 'orrible 'ill that starts my commute home by the most direct route I took a bunch of flattish roads out of my way. All I actually achieved was adding 4 miles to the distance, and amazingly despite avoiding the 'orrible 500' hill I still ended up with 300' more climbing than normal. There's no escape. Might have to replace the 52/40 with a compact, even though there's a 30 cog on the back.

Going in was nicer; heard an engine behind me on a bit of singletrack road and actually got a thank-you flash of the hazard lights when I paused in a passing place to let him by.
 

steve keay

Über Member
Location
Ipswich Suffolk
Rode a couple of extra miles on. The way home this morning. Still find it hard after a night shift. Bloody neighbours dog has woken me up six times today :/ May try to sleep a bit later.
 
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martint235

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
A headwind all the way home!! Fantastic!!! It's been a while since I practiced my headwind riding! As can be noted by my lowly 14.7mph average.
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
A headwind all the way home!! Fantastic!!! It's been a while since I practiced my headwind riding! As can be noted by my lowly 14.7mph average.


Yup, bit blowy out there at the moment. But at leaast it's not raining like this mornings ride. And the traffic was a complete mare.
The past 2 commute home have been some of my fastest (17's) so will see how it compares tonight.
 
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martint235

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
Yup, bit blowy out there at the moment. But at leaast it's not raining like this mornings ride. And the traffic was a complete mare.
The past 2 commute home have been some of my fastest (17's) so will see how it compares tonight.
Oh yes someone mentioned rain this morning. Those of us that are hard working civil servants had been in the office for an hour and a half before it started though.... :smile:
 

rdfcyclist

Well-Known Member
Location
Norwich
Risking the possible conclusion that I will be known as the 'chap who only posts when things are thrown at him' person; a small child decided to throw gravel at me today as I passed. Luckily the little tike missed but I was hit by the knowledge that I've cycling for 5 years today. Yay me :birthday:
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I decided to count bikes as I passed them this morning, in my 8 and a half miles I counted about 175, and I had a look to see how many flyby's on Strava and just 32. As commutes go, it wasn't bad, and I got the layers about right.

I asked Mr Summerdays to guess and his guess was 20, which I'd seen by the first mile and a half!
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
boo to headwinds and bad traffic.. especially bad traffic caused by temporary lights.
I was nearly run into by a silly woman in a big car this evening. At a set of lights she just slowly drifted left into me. Of course she was looking at her mobile phone. A loud slap on the roof of her car soon snapped her out of her phone daze. And she gave me a guilty look.
 
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I decided to count bikes as I passed them this morning, in my 8 and a half miles I counted about 175, and I had a look to see how many flyby's on Strava and just 32. As commutes go, it wasn't bad, and I got the layers about right.

I asked Mr Summerdays to guess and his guess was 20, which I'd seen by the first mile and a half!

I'm lucky if I see 4 or 5 bikes on my commute
 
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