Tales from today's commute....

[martint235]

Positives: quicker but probably due to tailwind. Over 16mph though so not to be sniffed at. First home commute without lights #summershere

Negatives : got caught by surprise and skinned by a racing snake on Rochester Way. Wasn't too far off the pace but work to be done

 

[summerdays]

Saw a car hit the wing mirror off a parked car, stop, then quickly drive off, but I was unable to get the full number plate! If the car hadn't been parked on the pavement then there wouldn't have been enough space for two cars to try to squeeze past each other.

 

[Andrew_P]

Too.Farking.Windy

On, and on and on it goes fark right off.

 

[cyberknight]

Had a couple of side swiping moments from the wind this morning through gaps in hedges, nothing too major but should of been more ready. Gusts into the mid 40's for the return leg should make it a slog and a half.

How did the reliabilty ride go ?
I eneded up in the car for work Sunday as mrs ck wanted to out in the afternoon so i needed to get home asap , looked outside around 11 am and thought it was not a day for setting a good time ie wet and windy .
Went to ikea in the afternoon and came back home as it was queing right up to the slip road so the highlight of the day was a trip to the services for a coffee , on the way home i picked up an elite volare turbo from halfords ( 10 % bc discount ) and set it up.I did half an hour and my legs were fooked and today i have set up a spare wheel with the turbo tyre as you can see the standard tyre being eaten alive.

 

[cyberknight]

Gusty ride yesterday morning and also had a visit from the fairy. Awful tube change too, was 20 mins before I was back up and running. Soggy grass verge, dark very dark, and the wind blowing, it wasn't pleasant. Got to work, patched the tube, made a brew and then came over all funny. Just felt bleugh... An hour later and I'm being given a lift home by a mate after countless bouts of the stuff that's not nice to discuss.
Feel a bit better today but its probably put me out of the local Reliability ride tomorrow which I was really looking forward to

Hope you ok today , ignore my other post then as you didnt ride but as i said it was a crappy day .

 

[subaqua]

discovered that the centre join on my boxers , if not adjusted properly, presses on a most unfortunate place meaning i get numb nuts, and a feeling like i want to , well you know.

that said and done and properly adjusted, i had a great ride home despite nutter in transit being interested in his phone. however karma appeared 100 yds up road where i saw a police car waiting to pull out of junction. i stopped and had a word and they moved back and turned lights off. and caught transit driver .

result.

 

[ianrauk]

Now that was hard work... Having to pedal DOWN a hill to keep going. The only thing one could do is throw it in a low gear and just spin away. It was bleedin' mild too. So all that spinning and working hard against the wind bought a sweat on.

 

[Tin Pot]

Sweat in my eye blinding me on the way home a couple of times - had to get off the road to sort it.

It is February, right?

 

[Origamist]

Wind - 4 Origamist - 0

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Vicious crosswind for most of today's commute home, particularly when going over the 'High Haddon Howler'.

Bookended by two super-fast wind-assisted strava segments, one of which gave me my first KOM and the other a 4th overall!

As they say "He who dares, wins"

https://www.strava.com/activities/483621349



Graham

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Hope you ok today , ignore my other post then as you didnt ride but as i said it was a crappy day .

Yeah pretty much back to business today but gutted I missed it yesterday. Oh well, can't be helped.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Tailwind assisted ride home, only bad gusts were near home in the country. Wife got worried about the wind and came out to find me in my car. She missed me somehow and I got home to find my car gone, her car still there. Briefly thought my car had been nicked, then the missus turned up and gave me a bollocking for riding in the wind.

 

[martint235]

Ok, enough with the headwind!! I'm considering going back to a rucksack as it'll have a lot less drag under these conditions that a Carradice.

No muppets. I can't tell if Operation Kalm 2 is working or there are just fewer idiots kicking around at the moment.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Coming out of Barking I got caught by a lunatic ( in a good lunatic type of way) I have met before but not for over a year. He can do a 50 minute or so 25 mile TT. He was on his training bike, a 26 inch wheel single speed MTB with front suspension, 28-30mm wide tyres I think . ( using a 48 tooth chainring , 12 tooth rear cog) . We chatted and he has changed teams this year and now rides for Team Vision Racing TVR .

We ended up bombing past loads of roadies who probably thought the guy had a hidden motor. I checked on Strava when we finished and once I had met him we were averaging over 20mph into a 20mph headwind for a couple of miles.

We had a guy annoy him who we had overtook before who jumped us by going through a red light , this really got the goat of my companion so we then chased him down and overtook him again, he then checked his cadence meter, he had been spinning at 180rpm!
I'll stick to a road bike and gears thank you very much!

 

[ManiaMuse]

Seem to be getting lucky with the wind recently, the worst gusts seem to be happening either overnight or later in the morning after I have already got to work.