Tales from today's commute....

[Schneil]

Sorry, can't help but think it reminds me of:

Nooo, take him away! He'll ask me if I want to write a letter. Bit like talkie toaster with toast

 

[Nocode]

Nooo, take him away! He'll ask me if I want to write a letter. Bit like talkie toaster with toast

Got to love Clippy!

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Got to love Clippy!

Not even Clippy's mum loves Clippy.

 

[PBB]

Sorry to hear of your incident Edwards80, hope you're OK

My first day back on the bike for a week. Still have a heavy cold but decided to sink or swim. Swam fortunately, though feeling rough now, but still looking forward to trying our my new 1000lm front light on way home

The phrase "kid with new toy" springs to mind!

 

[potsy]

Knocked off by a car!
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Glad you're OK pal, where abouts did it happen?

 

[potsy]

Oh, it was your picture that inspired me to put them underneath! Although I keep my Garmin on the stem

Have tried mine underneath too when I was struggling for space on the bars, for som reason I always felt they weren't as visible to oncoming cars, probably just my ocd

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very very VERY WET tonight. Cycle path completely flooded in two places. One I just detoured, second one I had to go through. Will have to do a different route tomorrow

 

[fossyant]

That was 'orrible. Left work early to get to a furniture store in Bolton, in the car. Took 90 minutes to do 20 miles, got there late, closed, another 60 minutes home. Argh

 

[ianrauk]

Another wet commute home. But not cold.
Took it nice and easy as it's the last commute for 2012.
Roll on 2013.

 

[Andrew_P]

I had to stop and take my skull cap off, if rucksack had been empty I would have shed my jacket and gloves was sweating my knackers off.

 

[Matthew_T]

VERY wet! Apart from that nothing to report. Had one woman beep me at a pinch point but that was it. Absolutely incident free! Must try harder...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Knocked off by a car! Has to happen at some point I guess :S

Girl pulled out of a side road and broadsided me. Fortunately missed the oncoming traffic. She was pretty hysterical and was close to throwing up, feels odd being overly nice to someone who just drove into you. First aid training kicking in I guess

Me + bike are fine, grazed elbow and the inevitable bruised hip. Her car actually came off worse, tore the front corner off her bumper.

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Glad your OK, the skirts on the KA, I wouldn't call them bumpers, are only soft plastic held on by plastic clips, just after I got mine I had to buy a bag of clips from amazon and properly secure the near side one, half the clips were missing and I had to keep reattaching it.

 

[fossyant]

VERY wet! Apart from that nothing to report. Had one woman beep me at a pinch point but that was it. Absolutely incident free! Must try harder...

Nice one. Commuting makes you hard core. Like it.. Keep at it young fella.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

With all the fun of the flooding last night, I decided to come direct to work this morning, so only did just shy of 6 miles. Still had to detour as the river had flooded the cycle path in town

 

[Leaway2]

After the last week of rain, today was great. I took the long way round through Hale Barns to avoid the flooded road I had to go through yesterday. Its lit all the way and the traffic was very light. The bike was humming along. I was wearing my CC top and I think it adds 2mph.
Excellent ride in that really lifted my spirits.