Tales from today's commute....

[Berk on a Bike]

Yesterday I set myself the task of putting to bed December's Strava climbing challenge using my last commute of 2015. I got to work still 375m short of the 5,000. Soooo... on leaving work at 7pm (early sneak off - shhhh) I took a circuitous route home and bagged 420m of hillage. Job done for Christmas! The things we do, eh?

 

[Leaway2]

Oh my Lord, that was windy. I have never ridden so far on the small ring!

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Back on it today, after being horizontal for three days. Took it steady mind and pretty much sat up and span most the way.
Coming to the last mini roundabout where I turn right (T style set up where I'm approaching the traffic going left and right in front of me) From the left I see a mini van that is travelling way too fast, so I just hang a little to gauge if he's seen me approaching. Sure enough, he flies straight past in front of me without even turning his head. Nicely for me he turns into my place, seems he was collecting something. He was pretty apologetic but I wasn't in the mood for that. Feckin arse.

Anyway, Merry Christmas fellow CCers ! ! !

 

[Tin Pot]

OMG the M25 was so good this morning.

OMG.

 

[User33236]

Mrs SG had a nice tailwind (and no rain) and improved on a couple or her QOM's on Strava.

Me? I leave a bit later so had heavy rain AND I head in the opposite direction!!

 

[LoftusRoadie]

Windy as hell this morning along the towpath but I should be leaving work in the next hour or so so i get a tailwind home and I can ride home whilst it's light!

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well the wind turned around in just 5 hours so headwind coming home. You could not make it up!

 

[RoubaixCube]

Finishing work in 15mins.ita going to be a cold commute home. At leqst its not raining or blowing cats and dogs

 

[RoubaixCube]

home now I shaved at least 10mins off the commute home on the Triban compared to my Hybrid.

Getting home was rather a normal affair but i had a run in with a driver who almost got me killed.

Im cycling a good 10 meters behind a bus. Bus decides it wants to pull over to pick up passengers. By that time 10m had closed to 2m and i had to take emergency action and attempt to pull out otherwise i would have smacked right into the back of the bus.

So along comes this idiot in the car to my right who is going slower than me but the moment i try to pull out insists on keeping his vehicle moving veers left to box me in and tries to pull up within cigarette stubbing distance of the bus.

I managed to pull out and squeeze through that tiny gap that the idiot had left me but if i had even lifted my right hand off my bars i could have flicked his wing mirror clean off, Thats how close he was to me. and he has the nerve to honk at me and ask me what im doing when he's the one whose vehicle veered to the left and tried to box me in if not crush me between him and the bus.

What good is a pair of eyes if you dont use them? what a complete utter pillock.

 

[martint235]

Not my greatest day on a bike. Day 2 of what is looking like a 3 day hangover meant I was close to throwing up most of the way in particularly on hills. Took it easy and still maintained a 14.5mph average.

I've done nearly 4,200 miles this year which isn't bad considering and I've managed to maintain an average of spot on 15mph. Only Thursday's commute left of this year now.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

well legs not too bad after 4 days off and lovely quiet roads
Tomorrow looks a bit of a howler........

 

[HarryTheDog]

Very quiet on the roads this morning, only one cyclist going my way, a young man on a hybrid who looked like he had got dressed from the remnants of a explosion in Sports Direct. Baggy 3/4 length running leggings, football shorts, triathlon road cycling shoes with no socks and bright orange waterproof looked a bit wierd but he was up for bit of SCR with a grin on his face.
Cycle home seemed to be full of bad tempered people. 2 old ladies demanded I got off my bike and walk, I was actually on CS3, you think the blue paint and pictures of bikes would have told them I was allowed on it. Then a jogger running on CS3 shouted at me for not ringing a bell at him when I overtook. Finally the prize for the most bad tempered twonk went to a middle aged woman in a car keeping pace with a bloke cycling on the pavement down Noak Hill, beeping her horn and demanding he got off the pavement for over a 100yds. He blissfully ignored her but gave me a cheerful wave.

 

[Jamieyorky]

Road's busy around York today what with the flood's, still a nice commute in and even better when you only have to go in for a hour for a meeting

Always a good feeling riding off and leaving everyone else at work

 

[Jenkins]

Got drafted by a roadie on my way home - I was on the singlespeed, wearing normal clothing and with a full carrier bag of shopping hanging from one arm so I must have provided quite a windbreak at 20+mph!

 

[Leaway2]

A good workout into the wind this morning. As I travel down country roads lined with trees, I was expecting a lot of debris on the roads, but it was remarkably free of branches. Not many cars on the roads either