Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

Well that was as wet as an Otters pocket. For the first half hour of the commute the rain was so heavy. Stung the face. the second half wasn't so intense. It was a nice commute though. the rain was warm and it was good fun riding though all the big puddles. It really brings out the little kid in oneself.

 

[Dave 123]

A good soaking for me too, thoroughly enjoyable. Once home it was straight over to the polling station in a monsoon, but both of us in flip flops. There was no queue!

 

[subaqua]

Well that was as wet as an Otters pocket. For the first half hour of the commute the rain was so heavy. Stung the face. the second half wasn't so intense. It was a nice commute though. the rain was warm and it was good fun riding though all the big puddles. It really brings out the little kid in oneself.

You are Carol Kirkwood AICMFP. mmm Carol Kirkwood. now if she was the voice inside my head








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[RoubaixCube]

Back on the road since last weeks collision. Nice and sunny start! Very warm. Nice bit of sunshine and my new mitts turned up. Whoever had it just dumped it in my front yard. Charming...

 

[subaqua]

I don't like Schwalbe Spicer tyres.
old bike 4 years no punctures with marathons
new bike 1 week and 2 fecking punctures. both glass shards from the rain we have had washing all crud to cycle lanes.

lovely and warm ride though.

 

[RoubaixCube]

slight traffic on the way home, bit of a pile up down finsbury park end, Stationary traffic for about a mile. It was a lot of fun filtering through that lot!

This morning i noticed the my drive chain being rather squeaky. It was the same on the ride home too! It was like a family of field mice running along my chain as i pedaled.

Came home, had food, made a cup of tea and found out that not only had baby spiders made a small home on my rear mech (my LBS leaves some bikes in their garden - All chained up when they close the shop of course) but my chain was absolutely bone dry. Whoever had worked on my bike had degreased it but never lubed it back up when they finished working on it. gave it a wipe down and slapped some wet lube on it, Its running much better now.

Those baby spiders better earn their keep though - I expect them to play the same part of an electric motor! If im not flying up hills at 20mph i will call my LBS and demand they refund me for the spiders - they didnt do their job as advertised!

 

[HarryTheDog]

Half commute on the 29er today as I plan a off-road excursion after work. Only incident was when about to overtake a roadie who wasn't keep a straight line so I warned him with a "coming past on your right" and he just veered right into my path. There was enough room to avoid him but he seemed to get very annoyed with me bellowing at him, all I can say is if you ride that slow and veer all over the place you should expect people to be overtaking and warning you.

 

[John_S]

Just to add to the joys of taking multiple thorough soakings recently I'm presently struggling to find a route which doesn't include several fords which have developed recently.

I'm not a fan of having to negotiate so many fords at the moment because the condition of the roads underneath isn't great and hitting a pot hole when going through them is just annoying. Plus having to submerge feet and in addition the filth that the bike gets covered in is not fun.

Still at least it's not cold so could be worse.

 

[Arjimlad]

A lovely sunny 6 miles to work today including a minibus overtaking me beautifully wide, but on a bend nearly colliding with an oncoming car.

Also for extra added fun a chap on a bike-shaped-object forced me to let him in by launching himself into the traffic in front of me, but I was able to overtake him fairly easily after some careful braking on a bend. I refrained from passing any comment.

 

[Smithbat]

I overtook a chap while going uphill! That is all :smug:

 

[tallliman]

Pretty quick ride into work followed by a dreamy 20mph average speed ride back home....well nearly home. Back tyre went bang about 2 miles from home so had to walk the rest of the way. Really frustrated but the positive is I can hold 20mph (with a little tailwind) for nearly 1 hr on the pretty flat.

Should add thanks to the pedestrian who stopped to check what occurred when she heard the large bang!

 

[13 rider]

Pretty quick ride into work followed by a dreamy 20mph average speed ride back home....well nearly home. Back tyre went bang about 2 miles from home so had to walk the rest of the way. Really frustrated but the positive is I can hold 20mph (with a little tailwind) for nearly 1 hr on the pretty flat.

Should add thanks to the pedestrian who stopped to check what occurred when she heard the large bang!

Have riden on some gravel roads lately good job it didn't go riding home on Saturday you've have got wetter

 

[tallliman]

@13 rider, I was on the other bike to Saturday! I think they'd just got worn out, somewhere around 2500-3000miles at a guess.

 

[fossyant]

Pretty quick ride into work followed by a dreamy 20mph average speed ride back home....well nearly home. Back tyre went bang about 2 miles from home so had to walk the rest of the way. Really frustrated but the positive is I can hold 20mph (with a little tailwind) for nearly 1 hr on the pretty flat.

Should add thanks to the pedestrian who stopped to check what occurred when she heard the large bang!

Walk of shame. Change the tube !

 

[Tin Pot]

Cycled into the back of a white van, I guess he brakes quicker than expected as I was checking traffic to pass him. Knocked my front wheel, failed to balance or unclip and unceremoniously dumped myself in a parachute roll in the middle of the road lifting the bike in the air. Mildly panicked as I still couldn't unclip to get myself off and out of the middle of the road, but did not die, dusted myself down and carried on a tad embarrassed.

Surprised white van man didn't leap out and give me an earful, probably too stoned to notice, or braked deliberately fast to get me...