Tales from today's commute....

[donnydave]

WARM

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

What a fantastic autumn morning, shorts and ss jersey the order of the day. I decided to take advantage and extended to a 38. Pretty uneventful but another commute in the bag so all's good.

 

[Clanghead]

I might have been a tad overdressed this morning, I was melting by the time I got into work.

Phew, not just me then. I thought I was having some kind of manopause hot flushes by the time I got to work.

 

[Karlt]

F****ing wind blowing every f***ing direction except the way I was going...

 

[summerdays]

I forgot to mention that this morning I was cycling along the road when I met a cyclist cycling towards me - literally, I ended up pulling around him too bemused to say anything, and the car behind me didn't beep him either.

 

[Truth]

I hate WINDY conditions with a passion !!!!!

 

[Karlt]

I hate WINDY conditions with a passion !!!!!

Me too, unless it's really stupid windy, when it becomes a challenge just to get there, regardless of time or speed. Quite a feeling of being alîve!

 

[fossyant]

Early escape - docs for bi-weekly injection. Had a chat with another guy with 'too many' bike lights.

 

[HarryTheDog]

On the way home tonight I came across a cyclist in Dagenham who had found the secret on how to make cars give you plenty of room and not abuse you. Ride with no cycling clothing,no lights,no high viz and no hands on the bars whilst veering all over the place. No car would go near him and no one beeped him. Not suprised he was not using his hands as he had spun his drop bars so that the shifters pointed skywards.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Steady ride this morning, legs feeling a little tired. Special ride though, 22 miles in and I turned over the 12'000 mile mark this year.

 

[Arjimlad]

I was bumbling along the Old Gloucester Road doing about 15mph this morning when a young lad on a multi-coloured cheap old mountain bike blatted past me with the distinctive farting of a 2 stroke motor. He was doing nigh on 30mph I should think. I cheekily shouted "Pussy" after him and thanked the Lord for the proper use of my legs.

A little further up the road he was scooting his bike along and I could take a better look. It was an old & rusty catalogue-type non-suspension MTB with rim brakes and he had cable-tied a teardrop tank to the top tube, and there was a small buzzy motor where the bottle cage would normally sit. I didn't have time to examine how the drivetrain worked as the motorists were getting fractious that we were 2-abreast, but he explained he had run out of fuel. "You'll have to pedal Iike me then, good luck" quoth I and off I went. Brave !

I also helped push a broken down car to the side of the busy roundabout under J16 of the M5. Countless motorists passed by not lifting a finger to help. The young couple were grateful for my assistance.

 

[Andrew_P]

Got the hammer down this morning headwind wasn't too bad and even had a few out of the seat sprints. Felt good no doubt will suffer for it tomorrow morning but was just one of those mornings were I felt like it, plus some residue anger from too many self-gratification artists on the road.

 

[Arjimlad]

Phew, not just me then. I thought I was having some kind of manopause hot flushes by the time I got to work.

Lol.. manopause.. might have to incorporate that into my vocabulary !

 

[robjh]

The sun came out this morning and the wind seems to have dropped a bit, and it was a lovely ride in on my 14 or so miles to Coventry. I’m finishing work here this Friday and don’t know when I’ll get another regular commute as good as the ones I’ve enjoyed here, so I went slowly today and looked around me and took it all in, and stopped for a few photos on the way to remind me.

 

[MichaelO]

A fairly uneventful commute. Until I got to work and found my shower gel had leaked inside my wash bag.