Tales from today's commute....

[HarryTheDog]

Pleasant tailwind on the way home. Going to have to think as to whether I commute tomorrow, 48 Mph winds in the evening out my way, they will be sort of tailwind but with a bit of crosswind as well. May take the half sensible option ie the car/train.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Pleasant tailwind on the way home. Going to have to think as to whether I commute tomorrow, 48 Mph winds in the evening out my way, they will be sort of tailwind but with a bit of crosswind as well. May take the half sensible option ie the car/train.

Bugger, 46mph headwind for me tomorrow night, will be a short ride home

 

[benb]

A couple of weeks old, but some dozy pillock left hooked a cyclist in front of me, and I've only just just got round to sorting out the footage.

 

[Tin Pot]

Yeah I was cycling towards the moon for a while today, lovely view.

And lovely cycling towards it on the way back!

Also broke two hours coming home, so a good days commute altogether.

 

[Specialeyes]

From yesterday's commute: the mossy corner which had me off at 15mph a few weeks ago almost had me off at 5mph... then the giant black tarpaulin blocking the A127 cycle path (and which I briefly considered bunny hopping) turned out to be the corpse of a dead horse. Felt physically sick after that.

 

[RoubaixCube]

the giant black tarpaulin blocking the A127 cycle path (and which I briefly considered bunny hopping) turned out to be the corpse of a dead horse. Felt physically sick after that.

A delivery for ASDA i assume

 

[Specialeyes]

A delivery for ASDA i assume

Or My Lidl Pony

 

[RoubaixCube]

Or My Lidl Pony

I canneigh believe it

 

[Trickedem]

I'm used to pedestrians stepping out without looking, obviously relying on hearing rather than looking to avoid approaching traffic. Tonight though it was a fox, I was just looking down at my gears or something, next second, I looked out and a fox had nonchalantly walked into the road right in front of me and was only a few feet away. Do foxes normally look before they cross a road?

 

[RoubaixCube]

Had a nobber in a van shouting at me when i joined the road to start my commute home. The fact that he had to drive at least 100m to scream at me as he had to wait for the traffic lights just makes this twat even more of a daffodil. Funnily enough he didnt do a close pass, but the car to his right was trying to bully him into mounting the pavement on the left... Priorities eh??? Who cares about other drivers being assho!es to you on the road when you can roll down the window and have a good old whale at a cyclist as you drive past who was (a) no where near you to begin with (b) handnt even started pedaling or attempted to join/merge with traffic yet (I was stationary - I had literally just sat on the bike and was waiting for a friend of mine who was also cycling with me to do the same before i pushed off)

Multiple close passes by the black cab posse - Some are way to close for comfort. Even though my commutes are short 40-50min rides (just under 8miles depending on what route i take) Im tempted to don a helmet cam for my own safety. The number of close passes I have experienced that are made by black cabbies are just beyond acceptable.

 

[BEHMOTH66]

I had yet another altercation with a black cab yesterday cycling home in Salford strong head wind, when car turning left blocks the road for other cars, a taxi over takes with about 15m to spare so I go along the inside as my way is clear. Ho no not with this idiot who then moves left to block me off into a parked car. Caught him up at the crossing which was 100 yards away he told me I had no right to undertake ha ha...the fact he could hardly speak English didn't help either reported him to Manchester city council took a picture of him too, then hit prime position coming up to a junction. he then lagged behind me for about 300 yards till he could turn off.
he was also riding in a cycle lane earlier and stopped in an ASL when are the police going to take these offences seriously when the motorist has passed a bike less then 5 seconds ago....... Sorry on a rant now.....

so on to this morning pedestrian started this morning 30ft from a crossing he slowly walks in front of me looking at me while walking into my path middle of the road crossing to my left didn't like the fact I called him a self-gratification artist. he definitely didn't like the fact I stopped after he tried to spit at me. well stopped turned round to find the dick had run when he seen me stopping. I will be definitely on the look out for that guy in the next couple of weeks

 

[Leaway2]

Not the commute, but walking through the office building, "Oooh you don't want to be cycling today, there is going to be a storm" from a random worker. Yes OK duly noted.

 

[DWiggy]

Ride in was quite nice, warm with a slight tail wind but the ride home looks pretty nasty, rain with 49mph gusts might give it a miss will see how it develops.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Decided I will brave the big winds forecast for the evening and cycled in again.
A brisk headwind ensured hard work all the way. At the Lights in Canning Town one of my Strava cohorts caught me at the lights, I then kicked his butt up the hill. Amusingly one of the guys who normally cycles to work from Hornchurch was driving in and we met in the car park at work, he asked me if the guy in HCC shorts ever caught me. He had been watching him chase me down as he drove in on the A13 and wondered how it all panned out.

 

[summerdays]

One impatient eejit... a cyclist! Part of my commute takes me across a narrow part of cycle path (ring road bridge over the Frome), and they have made it narrower by having cones sitting on it. Today a cyclist behind rang his bell several times, presumably so I could move to the side, run into a cone and then he could pass. I ignored him until I was across then when the path was wider I let him pass, was it really so hard to wait 50 meters? I could still see you a mile later so it wasn't as if you were that much faster!