Tales from today's commute....

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Yesterd Left the house in OK conditions, half a mile up the road was brought to a standstill by an enormous gust of wind. I though it was a freak gust, it wasn't. There then follow 11 miles of struggle. One section is normally done at about 20mph, yesterday 8 mph. Hideous and a little unnerving trying not to get blown under the wheels of vehicles.

 

[I like Skol]

Yeeeeeeehah! This mornings ride home must easily have been the fastest this year. I was on fire and romped along at a fair old rate of knots (and the wind might have been behind me )

 

[fossyant]

Yeeeeeeehah! This mornings ride home must easily have been the fastest this year. I was on fire and romped along at a fair old rate of knots (and the wind might have been behind me )

Pardon

 

[apb]

Had a nissan leaf charge past me on a narrow road this morning. Arse doesn't even pay road tax!

 

[subaqua]

headwind in, tailwind home yesterday. I also stopped at the Fountain in Victoria Park to read the info board and learned something.

headwind in today was horrible. commute in was Slow as F. looking forward to ride home if the wind strength stays same.

 

[donnydave]

massive tailwind on the way home last night, I could have done with a bigger gear, I think the top gear on my bike is 52/11, could have gone faster! Opposite this morning of course. Happily most of the motorists out and about had taken the weather conditions into account when navigating round more vulnerable road users, apart from one complete balloon who mistook me being blown to the left by a particularly strong gust as an invitation to pass in the face of oncoming traffic (he only had to wait for 3 more cars, you know how it goes!), only for me to counter steer into his rear passenger door as his car shielded me from the wind as he passed

 

[ACS]

Running a wee bit late so I took the shorter route (10miles) this morning. The majority of the route is along a rural 'B' class road and generally carries little traffic. Had the unusual experience of overtaking 4 vehicles parked fairly close together all with front drivers side punctures.

Smirking! Me? How could you think such a thing.

 

[Karlt]

Alas my commute home was into the wind and took for ***ing ever. Horrible. And traffic bad so even where I could make progress even with the wind I couldn't because of the queues.

 

[cyberknight]

I did get a bit of a beasting through Repton bottoms tonight CK.
Are you riding the Reliability on Sunday?

I havent decided yet , theres a chance of a double time sunday at work but doing 2 hours a day overtime a night all week so i might turn it down .Are you doing it ?

 

[hennbell]

Sudden increase in temperature here on the Canadian Prairies. It is expected to go to +3 C today and we had actual rain last night. The apocalypses must be around the corner.

 

[fimm]

Chap turned right from side road onto the main road I was on, got rather too close to me, then decided he wanted to stop and talk to me about something. I'd just been to the dentist and was in no mood to discuss the finer points of headwear, bin-men outfits, or who pays for the road (and why this is relevant to not hitting a fellow road-user) so I just told him to go away and wouldn't talk. Possibly I should have at least found out what he wanted to say... it didn't sound like an apology, more something about lights.

 

[summerdays]

Strong headwind on the way in, especially on the Concorde way past the rugby pitches ... I was managing about 6mph on the flat and looking enviously at everyone going the opposite way.

 

[MattDB]

Big tyres do not make me invincible

After a fall off my road bike with 23's on I decided to get an MTB for the wet winter roads. This morning fairly slowly turned a corner on a shared footpath/cycleway and lost the front wheel, landed on my head somehow and my knee is making a clicking noise. Just about to set off for the return journey - straight back in the saddle am I right?

 

[Archeress]

Strong headwind on the way in, especially on the Concorde way past the rugby pitches ... I was managing about 6mph on the flat and looking enviously at everyone going the opposite way.

Yes, my ride into UWE was battling the wind for most of the route. At least my ride home was dry and a lot less windy.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

I havent decided yet , theres a chance of a double time sunday at work but doing 2 hours a day overtime a night all week so i might turn it down .Are you doing it ?

Yeah I'm riding it.