Tales from today's commute....

[summerdays]

Grit = salt
Salt = corrodes metals

This mornings commute is a bloody cold one. Can feel the chill right through my thermals.

Went past the river. Ducks are still in the water having a good old paddle

Salt corrode metal slowly and I can do something to slow it down, crashing on ice tends do do damage faster and I can do very little other than walking or studded tyres to avoid.

Of course today I have on the studded tyres and I didn't see a since patch of ice or I was more carefree and sailed over all of them.

As with leaves on the path, it's a fairly easy formula to work out where grit is needed in particular, slopes, bends, road crossings, and anywhere those are combined. I'm not saying the bits in between don't need it but that's where cyclists are likely to come off.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Chilly commuting today but no numpties apart from myself. Coming out into the countryside on the last 4 miles of my commute I noticed my light suddenly dimmed down to its lowest power and the power meter showed nothing in the battery ( exposure strada) . No problem spare light in my bag, ooops no spare light in my bag. Luckily I managed to get home before it gave out completely. I had forgot to charge it, lessons learnt, keep spare light in bag and charge my light.

 

[Tin Pot]

1hr52 BOOM!

New PB by about ten minutes on the commute home, felt great, strong and fast the whole way

EDIT
Dagnabbit. MMR stopped tracking the last two klicks home. I dunno what my time was now.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

A snowy covering through the village made for the first mile at 8mph. The roads then turned to a frosty slippery mess so took it steady and it was fine. Snug as a bug in my Vitesse jacket, without doubt one of the best buys I've ever made. I noticed on my tracker that in the 10 days commuting this year so far, I've got wet on 7 of them. What a forecast for next week though, midweek onwards and we're looking at temps up to 13 deg C tropical that...

Where is this 13 deg C forecast you speak of?!!!

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Where is this 13 deg C forecast you speak of?!!!

Read it on Yr.no weather site.

 

[RoubaixCube]

Commute was another chilly one. Good to see the ducks and folks training in a canoe who sped past enjoying themselves

 

[rdfcyclist]

What I thought was a drop curb this morning turned out to be an ordinary curb that had sunk with just the right height to both; fool me into thinking I could scale it and to stop my front wheel. I went straight over the handle bars and skidded along my shoulder according to the van driver who stopped to see if I was ok. I'm grazed, I've got a headache and my handle bars are a bit bent but I made it into work and I'll have to settle for the embarrassment today. Tomorrow I think I'll glide right past that curb.

 

[summerdays]

Dark this morning, but as it is wet it meant it was unlikely to be icy! Commute fine other than realising I need to improve the position of my lights when my pannier is really full. I did cut up one cyclist, I'm sorry if it was you on the traffic island at the Bromley Heath Roundabout, I was suddenly aware of two motorbikes coming that distracted me from you being there. Now I need to see if I can improve on the lights/bag issue!

 

[ianrauk]

A quite nice commute this morning. 3° when I left. No wind. The roads were dry. And a lovely sunrise thrown in for good measure. The bike was running nice after a nice strip down and clean over the weekend. The only let down was just a little too much traffic in places, but they were behaving themselves. .
Also had a nice chat with one of my regular fellow commuters en route. Vince the Condor.
All in all, nice start to the working week.

 

[HarryTheDog]

@rdfcyclist hope nothing was damaged too much, I guess you will be feeling a bit stiff for the journey home. My commute in was a complete joy and seemed a lot warmer than I was expecting I detedted no ice which is suprising as my saturday ride into the country was mostly spent dodging iced over puddles. today even my feet were toasty. ( neoprene shoe covers )

 

[Tin Pot]

6:45 Young man walking down the road with a motorbike helmet on and go pro, but no bike leathers.

No jacket at all I fact, just a t shirt in 2C.

No motorbike to be seen on the whole street.

?

 

[benb]

6:45 Young man walking down the road with a motorbike helmet on and go pro, but no bike leathers.

No jacket at all I fact, just a t shirt in 2C.

No motorbike to be seen on the whole street.

?

Testing out the GoPro mount position?

 

[martint235]

Nothing to report from my commute. Nothing at all.

 

[apb]

Thankfully it was slightly raining this morning or it would of been an ice rink in edinburgh east. found a couple of slippery sections, but nothing that bad.

the rain is going to continue through the day, so commute home should be ok.

 

[summerdays]

The other thing from this morning's commute, two walking with their bikes, I offered both pump and patches but they weren't that far from their destinations and were just going to sort it out there.