Tales from today's commute....

[Andrew_P]

I reckon my left pedal and foot came within an inch this evening as some daffodil pulled straight out of a side road without stopping crossing the cycle path trying to jump the right hand turning queue as close as I have come to being t-boned in 6 years everything in body was leaning the bike away whilst my body felt like it was hovering over the bonnet in the opposite direction I was waiting for the impact to happen a MASSIVE daffodil

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Morning @cyberknight

Great ride this morning, temps beautifully mild at 7 deg C, back to wearing a jersey in December, superb.
Got a bit of a rhythm going in places, winding the hack is up is good fun.
On the downside, had a mail back from Planet X, the new steed I want, the release is now 'sometime in 2016', after initially it being January. Hope I'm patient enough to wait...

 

[Spartak]

View from the Cheese Grater bridge near Temple Meads station this morning.

 

[ianrauk]

It was so warm this morning. I was wearing a LS jersey and windcheater. the windcheater soon came off and put in the pannier. The long sleeves very quickly became short sleeves... it's December ffs.

The traffic today was horrendous. No reason for it except for the sheer amount of traffic.

 

[Tin Pot]

49km

Caught the edge of an obscured kerb.

Fell over like a plum. A driver and a mum ran over like it was the Apocolypse.

Very embarrassing.

 

[cyberknight]

Morning @cyberknight

Great ride this morning, temps beautifully mild at 7 deg C, back to wearing a jersey in December, superb.
Got a bit of a rhythm going in places, winding the hack is up is good fun.
On the downside, had a mail back from Planet X, the new steed I want, the release is now 'sometime in 2016', after initially it being January. Hope I'm patient enough to wait...

Morning was it you I saw on the flyover? i did not think I might have been you till we had passed so a belated hi,enjoy the head wind all the way 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View from the Cheese Grater bridge near Temple Meads station this morning.

I went across the Valentines Bridge this morning..... And it was really busy at the traffic lights at the bottom, loads of cyclists (double figures on my side and as many going the opposite way) and pedestrians waiting to cross, and quite a muddle with people going in different directions.

 

[13 rider]

Windy but warm 12.1 miles in mainly tailwind took the direct route and then extended with loops of the village again . I'm sure some local thinks I'm nuts as I keep passing there house , long sleeved top and base layer and I'm too warm in December .Ride back tonight direct route 8 miles mainly headwind . Still warm though

 

[Supersuperleeds]

It was so warm this morning. I was wearing a LS jersey and windcheater. the windcheater soon came off and put in the pannier. The long sleeves very quickly became short sleeves... it's December ffs.

The traffic today was horrendous. No reason for it except for the sheer amount of traffic.

I ditched the winter jersey and went back to the summer one today, stupidly warm, but since I am full of bloody cold I'm quite liking it. Wind picked up for the ride home, combined with the bloody cold (have I already mentioned I have a cold, in fact I might upgrade it to man flu) made it hard work

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Morning was it you I saw on the flyover? i did not think I might have been you till we had passed so a belated hi,enjoy the head wind all the way 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Yep, 'twas me. #lastminuterecognition

That wind on the way home tonight, what a leg sapper!

 

[Maverick Goose]

Considerate driving from a WVM Monday morning yesssssssssssssss!

 

[summerdays]

Yesterday I had a nice interaction with a lorry. I'd left the office but needed to take a lot of paperwork home, managed to get up Park Street and Blackboy Hill with it, then realised I was going down Parrys Lane with all the excess weight and wanting to turn right before the bottom of the hill. So I went down far more slowly than normal, and when I looked behind there was a lorry....decided to wait for him to pass, but each time I looked behind he wasn't closing the gap and let me turn right in front of him

 

[martint235]

After a couple of months of a truce, hostilities with the driver of the Fiat 500 have resumed. I can understand it in a way, she's never been the most patient of drivers and at Norwood today her patience was stretched. I was behind a lady cyclist at the red, Fiat 500 was a couple of cars behind me. Lights went green lady cyclist set off at her own pace which I matched while waiting for cars to pass and leave a gap. As F500 was approaching, a pillock with a beard came down her drivers side, started to pull into the gap she'd left to give herself space to pass me safely. Pillock then realises that there are two slow moving cyclists there and that he has nowhere to go. F500 lady leans on horn. I accelerated into the gap now left alongside lady cyclist and out of the way.

It would have been funny if it hadn't put her in a bad mood for the rest of the commute. She got called a bad name when she raced past me into a small gap as she used to do. She has been well behaved around me for weeks.

 

[biking_fox]

Near miss yesterday. Tailwind and dry so good conditions, moving comfortably fast (upper 20s) in the outside lane of Upper Brook street (manchester)*. Green lights and a clear road all the way ahead. From the opposite carriageway a car suddenly U turns across in front of me. Shocked! Hard brakes swerve and missed by a few feet. Lots of swearing. No harm no foul. But it was close, how they didn't see 6' of fluorescent I'll never know - other than never looking to start with. They didn't stop or acknowledge either.


* Not a dual carriageway, but a divided road, three lanes in my direction, left and centre take most of the traffic up onto the ringroad, but once you're across into the outside lane its clear for the few vehicles that carry straight on.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Yesterday, had dry trips both ways in lovely mild temps, that's Spring returned in my book! !
A bit of a detour this morning to miss out some roadworks, shame I forgot about the other two sets that have also popped up. Close pass from a mahoosive lorry but then even worse from the lady behind it. I swear she wanted to count the number of wraps on my bars.