Tales from today's commute....

[BSRU]

Glad I was on two wheels commuting home tonight, dark, heavy rain, rush hour, Christmas traffic all mixed in with some accidents so cars were moving very very slowly in all directions.
Thankfully with some prudent filtering and thoughtful drivers moving over to give me space meant progress was made slowly.

 

[Hip Priest]

Tonight's commute home was the wettest of all time. Also, I overtook a runner on a shared path and he shouted something at me, which sounded like 'Dick!'. So I said 'What?' and he said "Sorry, I thought you were my friend Nick!"

 

[Stromtrooper]

Looked out the window at the plume from the local incinerator bent 90' and streaming rather fast so whipped out and rode the motorbike to work. Felt guilty passing my usual commute cyclists on the way in but oh so glad on the way home as I passed the soggy lot battling into strong headwind and heavy rain.
Felt guilty but warm and dry

 

[fossyant]

Grim ride into Manchester in hissing rain, got changed, went to a quick meeting, got changed again and back out in it. Horrible ride home, loads of traffic, slow progress head, wind and driving rain. Bike now oiled and cleaned off.

 

[400bhp]

Comedy moment on the way home, coming along a pretty much disused unlit road that runns alongside the canal. Bloke in front, him in the middle, dog 10 ft past on his left. I go past between him and the dog-he shouts stop. I said "no I'm not doing". Then felt something tighten around my legs...

He had one of them bleedin stretchy leads. Ended up embalmed in the bloody thing

 

[bicyclos]

Hit the deck this morning 7.00am on sheet ice on the way to work. Horrible freezing fog. First time in over 12 yrs have I ever fallen off. Left leg bruised and cut, right knee hurts and right shoulder sore. I went down heavy with a bang and made me very sullen for most of the morning. Got a lift home from work tonight as I was in pain with my right ankle and knee. In tomorrow (sat) for pre stocktake so i will ride home on the bike after I have finished. Im OK though and my bottom lip has shrunk back to where it should be!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Managed to do just under 16 miles tonight. Cannot believe how wet I got, I am sure I couldn't have got any wetter if I had jumped in the canal. Only 50 miles to go to hit my target by next Friday.

 

[Arfcollins]

Today I chickened out. Having happily cycled in minus 5 earlier in the week, I looked out this morning at the horizontal rain and went back upstairs to change into my driving clothes.

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Not too bad,had to change my light formation due to some tea-leaf but it seemed quite effective last night.Two hundreth commute today (of this year) and third on the Audax.Visited Evans on the way in yesterday and bought a rear brake caliper proper bull horn handlebars for the Audax.Also some rear lights.Some tea leaf had already whipped one off of me this week.New wheels for fixie may arrive tomorrow.

 

[Sandra6]

Hit the deck this morning 7.00am on sheet ice on the way to work. Horrible freezing fog. First time in over 12 yrs have I ever fallen off. Left leg bruised and cut, right knee hurts and right shoulder sore. I went down heavy with a bang and made me very sullen for most of the morning. Got a lift home from work tonight as I was in pain with my right ankle and knee. In tomorrow (sat) for pre stocktake so i will ride home on the bike after I have finished. Im OK though and my bottom lip has shrunk back to where it should be!

Ouch! Hope that's your only off this winter.

 

[J.Primus]

I saw a bloke commuting in an a fully carbon single speed velodrome bike today, he'd fitted a brake to the back wheel so he could stop. Surely that would get destroyed on London's roads in a couple of weeks!?

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Ouch! Hope that's your only off this winter.

12 years is a good run and I thought I was doing well.Ice is unpredictable also.

 

[GrasB]

Boring commute today, averaged 47.9 mph it to work... that should tell you all you need to know

 

[fossyant]

Boring commute today, averaged 47.9 mph it to work... that should tell you all you need to know

Tonight is going to be wet, very wet.

 

[potsy]

Saw a lady using a white light at the rear last night, thought there was an oncoming bike in the cycle lane for a minute
3 more commutes 'til Christmas