Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

Special moment this morning as I turned 2015 into my biggest year for distance and speed. My previous record was last year at 11'258 miles. 3 miles in this morning and I said goodbye to that record and hello to a new one

Nice one Mick.. you've worked hard enough....

It's the same for me too. I am now in the realm of further then I have ever ridden in a year.. and it will be by a huge margin compared to previous years.

 

[fimm]

Beautiful, beautiful morning for my long commute. Lovely light and colours as the sun come up.
Bit chilly though. Finding my long-fingered gloves is becoming urgent!

 

[Karlt]

Had my first actual anti-cyclist hatred the other day. I've had bad driving, close passes and all that impatient shoot, but I had some idiot shout "Get off the farking road" and then, when I passed them a little further down the road "You farking self-gratification artist!". I've been racking my brains to work out what I might have done to piss them off, but I've drawn a blank and can only assume that my crime was "riding a bike."

 

[Karlt]

Hey? Who turned the swear filter on? I feel like Clara in the Dalek - what I say isn't what gets through!

 

[Karlt]

On the positive side, had one of my fastest rides home ever yesteday - 16.6mph ave. It's hilly.

 

[rdfcyclist]

Found a loose horse on my way home. There were people milling around further down the path so I assume it wasn't lost, certainly didn't seem unhappy as it was chewing grass along the cycle path. It didn't pay any attention to me (much to my animal-loving disappointment). If it's there tomorrow I'll try and pet it perhaps

 

[HarryTheDog]

@MickeyBlueEyes 11'258 miles in a year, much respect! I do think you are slightly bonkers though, but in a good way
My commute home was livened up by a middle aged scooter rider going ballistic at a car for daring to encroaching into a ASL and nearly hitting the scooter who was sat in the ASL. The scooter rider was under the impression he was allowed to be there and didnt believe me that he wasn't. He promised to look it up when he got home.

 

[summerdays]

This morning's commute through a park, I spied to adults and roaming dogs so slowed down, sure enough when I wasn't that far away the dogs wandered across but that was ok, then one suddenly swung back to the other side and I managed to stop about 6 inches away from his tummy. The only thing I thought to shout was "it's ok I didn't hit him".

The homeward journey I was following a really dodgy cyclist, he managed to cause multiple cars to have to brake sharply as he seemed to pull out in front of cars. I followed him for a while each time him dropping me as he went for stupid gaps. I don't know if he wasn't aware or thought he was invincible!

 

[Wes1]

I had a couple of cars pull out this morning and seem utterly surprised I was waving at them though their side windows. They were either knackers or I need more lights!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Nice one Mick.. you've worked hard enough....

It's the same for me too. I am now in the realm of further then I have ever ridden in a year.. and it will be by a huge margin compared to previous years.

I'm not ..........

yet

 

[Simontm]

With my paltry 4,700 miles this year I suppose I shouldn't have taken yesterday off to get some energy back from the lurgy, let alone post on here Chapeau @MickeyBlueEyes and of course @ianrauk
Ride in today was a bit of a struggle but surprisingly my average 54 minutes, which I didn't expect. After boiling in the soft shell and base, I went for l/s base and s/s top and that suited me much better on this dull cloudy dark morning. Absolutely nothing to report except my glasses case went flying out of my back pocket, just avoided being crushed by a van coming the other way.
Numpty count: 1
Edit: Numpty count. ht @Supersuperleeds

 

[Arjimlad]

@MickeyBlueEyes 11'258 miles in a year, much respect! I do think you are slightly bonkers though, but in a good way
My commute home was livened up by a middle aged scooter rider going ballistic at a car for daring to encroaching into a ASL and nearly hitting the scooter who was sat in the ASL. The scooter rider was under the impression he was allowed to be there and didnt believe me that he wasn't. He promised to look it up when he got home.

Punishment must fit the crime though, better to set fire to the scooter and birch the rider than risk denting the motor.

 

[Arjimlad]

It occurred to me this morning, to be thankful for those drivers who use their mobile phones in traffic queues.

They leave beautiful big gaps for us cyclists to change lanes in. One of those every four or five cars can come in quite handy.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

With my paltry 4,700 miles this year I suppose I shouldn't have taken yesterday off to get some energy back from the lurgy, let alone post on here Chapeau @MickeyBlueEyes and of course @ianrauk
Ride in today was a bit of a struggle but surprisingly my average 54 minutes, which I didn't expect. After boiling in the soft shell and base, I went for l/s base and s/s top and that suited me much better on this dull cloudy dark morning. Absolutely nothing to report except my glasses case went flying out of my back pocket, just avoided being crushed by a van coming the other way.
Numpty count: 0

4,700 miles isn't paltry at all, it's 4,700 miles further than most people do.

Surely the numpty count should be 1? - for the numpty who put his glasses case in his back pocket

 

[fossyant]

Long commute to campus in Crewe yesterday, 73 miles round trip. Colleagues faces when I turned up. They had travelled by train.

Back to usual commute today.