Tales from today's commute....

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Dark ride in this morning but brilliant ride home, bright sunshine and short sleeves, even the downpour had spent itself just before i reached it.
Just lovely.

 

[Clanghead]

White Van Man very nearly rear-ended a bus this morning, so intent was he on giving me the self-gratification artist sign out of his window as he roared off into the distance, rather than looking where he was going, after I'd advised him to drive more carefully* after he'd almost wiped me out with a poorly-judged last second lane change.

* No, really, in those exact words - not even any swearing involved.

 

[rugby bloke]

Loads more people picking up Boris Bikes this morning, not just the 12 month a year hard core ... So I think we can announce that Summer has arrived ! Taxi drivers still behaving themselves but for the second time this week had a close shave with a bus ... has someone rattled the Bus Drivers Union cage recently ?

 

[Arjimlad]

I awoke at 6am today with a detailed plan hatching in my mind for some work I really needed to do, so took the 3.5 mile route to work as fast as I could and after a quick shower, nailed the job in hand.

Splendid !

 

[HarryTheDog]

Came across a guy who informed me he was on his first cycle ride of the year. Choosing a Thursday commute as to be your first ride I find a bit weird, I was too polite to ask why. Fair play to him though, 16 miles each way.

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

Another day of not being ran over, winning .

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Still suffering from the lurgy, managed a massive 53 miles in total this week.

 

[RoubaixCube]

On the last leg of my ride home i was involved in a collision with another cyclist who was very drunk. He tried Jumped a red and attempted to cross 5 lanes of traffic before realising his error. He turned the bike around. I thought he was going to head to his left which was the direction i was headed so i went around to his left but right at the last second he rolled his bike back into mine despite my shouts, I was knocked off my bike did a few barrel rolls but was relatively OK as the collision hadnt been at a very high speed.

I should have taken my shoe off and beat him around the head with the cleated end, but hes drunk so it would have been absolutely pointless and a waste of energy.

He kept apologising but i wouldnt have any of it. I called him an idiot and said some pretty nasty things in the heat of the moment. He denied being drunk but he totally reeked of it. I politely told him to fook off and that i hoped that he wouldnt do society a generous favour by getting mowed down by a bus on the way to his destination. (Like i said - heat of the moment)

If Im absolutely shoot faced drunk - I dont operate any sort of machinery that relies on hand and eye co-ordination.


Impact caused the chain to fall off. and the left shifter was a little bent but its all been re-aligned now.....

and the worst thing about it is, i cant call my insurance and charge for XYZ because I left my gopro at home this morning like a numpty.

Why does bad things always happen when you leave the camera at home?? Absolutely gutted.


Will have a shower and some food before giving the bike a complete check.

what a complete utter morons....me, for forgetting the gopro this morning and the drunk twat.

If there was more damage then i would have taken pictures of him and frogmarched him down to the local police station less than a mile away

 

[RoubaixCube]

Caught a sprinkling of rain on the way in right now. It feels good

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

On the last leg of my ride home i was involved in a collision with another cyclist who was very drunk. He tried Jumped a red and attempted to cross 5 lanes of traffic before realising his error. He turned the bike around. I thought he was going to head to his left which was the direction i was headed so i went around to his left but right at the last second he rolled his bike back into mine despite my shouts, I was knocked off my bike did a few barrel rolls but was relatively OK as the collision hadnt been at a very high speed.

I should have taken my shoe off and beat him around the head with the cleated end, but hes drunk so it would have been absolutely pointless and a waste of energy.

He kept apologising but i wouldnt have any of it. I called him an idiot and said some pretty nasty things in the heat of the moment. He denied being drunk but he totally reeked of it. I politely told him to fook off and that i hoped that he wouldnt do society a generous favour by getting mowed down by a bus on the way to his destination. (Like i said - heat of the moment)

If Im absolutely shoot faced drunk - I dont operate any sort of machinery that relies on hand and eye co-ordination.


Impact caused the chain to fall off. and the left shifter was a little bent but its all been re-aligned now.....

and the worst thing about it is, i cant call my insurance and charge for XYZ because I left my gopro at home this morning like a numpty.

Why does bad things always happen when you leave the camera at home?? Absolutely gutted.


Will have a shower and some food before giving the bike a complete check.

what a complete utter morons....me, for forgetting the gopro this morning and the drunk twat.

If there was more damage then i would have taken pictures of him and frogmarched him down to the local police station less than a mile away

You do know that they're serialising your commute in Viz now?

 

[RoubaixCube]

You do know that they're serialising your commute in Viz now?

Link?

 

[ianrauk]

Wow that was a very wet commute home. Torrential rain in parts. But it wasn't so bad, it's not cold and there's very little wind.

 

[summerdays]

I managed to miss the forecast rain so felt very pleased... Other than that.. One numpty, waiting behind a car that's not indicating at crossroads... And she suddenly pulled a U turn in the cross-roads (narrow ones that have been made narrow because of a school near by... The crossing patrol lady shrugged her shoulders at me!

 

[RoubaixCube]

Todays ride home was well timed, I started rolling just after the rain started to drizzle instead of pouring like it was earlier. Apart from the usual sweating im almost completely dry.

 

[Slioch]

Worse thing that happened to me this week was some idiot pedestrian with an umbrella waving it into the cycle lane. I ducked and took it on the helmet and managed not to swerve into the traffic. She looked shocked at the gobfull I gave her. Stupid stupid thoughtless person.