Tales from today's commute....

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Tight legs this morning after yesterday's Trial, so although I did the normal 25, it was a light effort, spinny affair. Going to have a steady week I think, looks dry and cold coming up over the next few days.

 

[subaqua]

Does this look like a pervert?

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thats a Plastic Scouser

 

[HarryTheDog]

Too many posts by me today in this thread but had to mention this. On my way home going down a shared use path there was a older gent on a sturdy 26inch wheel hybrid . I fell in behind leaving a good gap as not enough room to overtake safely. I saw up ahead what looked like a large lump of partially folded cardboard about 3 ft wide and a foot high so slowed and shouted a warning. The old guy rode straight into it without slowing at all, turned out to be a lump of sheet aluminium from the side of a lorry with a bit of bracket in it. The guy was lucky it was quite heavy and the impact pushed him sideways and nearly tipped him off the curb into the A13, but he managed to stay upright.

I enquired if he was ok and didn't he see it. Amazingly he had seen it but did not slow or swerve around it as he was worried that I would hit the back of him or I would plough into it, and as I was on a skinny tyred road bike I would have been seriously injured apparently. Nice of him to think of me but rather a silly move. I thanked him profously which cheered him up, but told him next time to just worry about himself I have brakes as well.( ok I only had half my brakes first thing this morning)

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Advice needed.

I'm posting this here rather than in a new thread, because I need an answer soon. When I got to work just now, stopped my Garmin 800's trip timer, then held down Lap/Reset to save the trip, it stopped counting down at 1, then the Garmin just froze, and is now completely unresponsive and won't even turn off. Does anyone know of an easy fix for this, or just a way to turn it off? I don't have any screwdrivers (at work, anyway) small enough to take its back panel off, to try to reseat its battery (if that's even possible).

Thanks,

--- Victor.

 

[HarryTheDog]

I sent my 800 off for repair on the weekend so can't fiddle with it to try and help ( un-related problem) I dont suppose plugging it into a laptop or charger does any good or has a effect?.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Advice needed.

I'm posting this here rather than in a new thread, because I need an answer soon. When I got to work just now, stopped my Garmin 800's trip timer, then held down Lap/Reset to save the trip, it stopped counting down at 1, then the Garmin just froze, and is now completely unresponsive and won't even turn off. Does anyone know of an easy fix for this, or just a way to turn it off? I don't have any screwdrivers small enough to take its back panel off, to try to reseat its battery (if that's even possible).

Thanks,

--- Victor.

Never mind. I held down the power button 1 more time, and instead of powering down, it went straight to the startup screen, then started up normally, and appears to have all the recent trips stored OK. Just a temporary glitch (hopefully ).

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I sent my 800 off for repair on the weekend so can't fiddle with it to try and help ( un-related problem) I dont suppose plugging it into a laptop or charger does any good or has a effect?.

I did plug it into a charger, but nothing happened. Let's hope it's not on its way to failing for good. One thing I've noticed with Garmin and GoPro: each new model seems to have (a) less battery life and (b) less reliability than the previous. (or that's my experience, anyway). They're both so focussed on adding all these new features (some of which the average user won't even touch), that battery life and reliability tend to suffer. A pity neither of them will listen to customer feedback.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Back on topic (and my apologies for the short digression): I'm enjoying my new, extended morning commute. The previous one I'd been doing for a while was about 25.75km with 210m climbing and the current one is 27.5km with 310m climbing. All the better to tone up the legs, so the Pyrenees and Alps don't kill me in September. My legs can feel the difference already.

 

[Origamist]

Tailwind assisted commute! Unusual for the return leg, but greatly appreciated.

Looks like sub zero nights for the next few days, take it easy...

 

[Jenkins]

Take care in the run up to the EU referendum London commuters...

 

[Shut Up Legs]

That was a hot commute home. The temperature got up to 40° during the ride. It lasted about 10 minutes longer than usual, because I got asked for directions by someone I passed on the shared path I take home, and ended up guiding him along the path for the next 15km or so, to prevent him getting lost.
Fortunately, this will probably be the last really hot day for this Summer, and good riddance, too!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

... but now, the temperature just dropped 5.5°C in 30 minutes, and it's raining! Thank you, unpredictable Melbourne weather.

 

[martint235]

So 3.5C when I left home so I decided to risk shorts and no overshoes. Toes are a little chilly but other than that all ok. I doubt I'll get away with it tomorrow though.

No muppets today. Not seen my Fiat 500 girlfriend for a while now. Maybe she's gone off me.

 

[summerdays]

Cycle paths all gritted - thank you S. Glos

 

[ianrauk]

Lovely morning for a commute. 3° when I left at 7.30am. Nice and dry roads only spoilt by the stupid amount of car traffic. One is certainly spoilt cycling during the school holidays.

And Mr orange flatbar bike in Deptford. The young lady shouting at you for being a complete arse* (*polite version) was because you were. You rode through the ASL and nearly knocked her over. No good shaking your head as if it wasn't your fault you cockwomble.