Tales from today's commute....

[martint235]

Well I've answered an age old question this morning. Many of my employers have asked "What happens if Martin gets hit by a bus?". Well the answer is Martin gets very angry, very, very quickly. More of a sideswipe really, he'd not checked his mirror before trying to pull around the bus in front of him at a stop. I managed to keep the bike upright, skid it around and give him quite a big chunk of my mind!! Andrenaline still running but I don't think there's much more than some scraping on my shoulder.

Other than that a quiet commute in

 

[stoatsngroats]

My fist commute for 3 year and the obligatory attempted left hook on a dual carriageway has me laughing, as I could see and feel the attempt as it developed. The driver overtook, indicated left, and then kindly stopped to allow me to continue!
13 miles in 48 mins isn't too shabby for my 1st ride, and the weather was fantastic, nice and cool with a very gentle breeze.
Looking good forward to more!

 

[ianrauk]

Well I've answered an age old question this morning. Many of my employers have asked "What happens if Martin gets hit by a bus?". Well the answer is Martin gets very angry, very, very quickly. More of a sideswipe really, he'd not checked his mirror before trying to pull around the bus in front of him at a stop. I managed to keep the bike upright, skid it around and give him quite a big chunk of my mind!! Andrenaline still running but I don't think there's much more than some scraping on my shoulder.

Other than that a quiet commute in

Blimey. Go easy mate... be careful out there... I need you fit for tomorrow's ride.

 

[martint235]

Blimey. Go easy mate... be careful out there... I need you fit for tomorrow's ride.

Yeah I'm fine. Had my shower, more of a friction burn on my shoulder and forearm than anything.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I wimped out and didn't do The Hill today, but I've done it 3 times last week and 3 this week, so that will do (for starters). I only lost 1kg this week, but I suspect it was -2kg fat (mainly around the middle, as my work trousers got noticeably looser) + 1kg leg muscle. I don't know if I'm ready for the alps in September, but I'm getting there...

 

[RoubaixCube]

Took le carbon out on the commute ive been craving this bike for a while. Its quite a beautiful morning with a nice gentle breeze to match. Definitely one of my top 10 mornings

 

[TheJDog]

Very quiet on my run in, but had three cars, vans or lorries just stop right in the middle of the road in front of me. On what are usually pretty busy roads. One was at a junction, seemed to be trying to make his mind up about where he was going, the lorry was watering hanging baskets (strange time to be doing that), no idea what the third one was doing. Apart from causing me consternation.

 

[stoatsngroats]

Return home into Wind was ok, so 26 miles commute total for me today. Great to be out on the bike, and Ultegra is wonderful.
Maybe I will make couple of cycle days next week...

 

[HarryTheDog]

My last commute for 2 weeks ( going on my hols) and it was a fine one. Going in was incident free but nobody to play with. Going home bumped into a fairly rapid guy straight away. He was at that speed where to overtake him would have meant hard work so I just shadowed him for 4 miles then when we came to a hill I made my move and went past. When he caught me at some lights he was really friendly and told me he suspected I was going to overtake but was suprised I waited so long. He was a really nice guy and we chatted for a further 4 miles and went our seperate ways. Looked him up on flyby, turns out he gets mentioned a lot by friends in common for his mad mileages, he had only done 500km of commute miles this week. ( ok some peeps on here do more but its 200 km more than me )
I finished off the commute with a PB that got me into the top ten of a section that I have been trying to get into for the last month so well chuffed.

 

[lutonloony]

my commute today was wifey driving me both ways. Kind of glad because there was a definite head breeze

 

[TrishE]

I had someone on a bike coming towards me on a shared path looking at their phone, I slowed right down and said excuse me and he looked up and swerved around me at the last minute eek.

On another shared path was told to slow down by a bloke who was on the pavement bit it's wide there too, I'm starting to hate people more than cars lol.

 

[RoubaixCube]

I had someone on a bike coming towards me on a shared path looking at their phone, I slowed right down and said excuse me and he looked up and swerved around me at the last minute eek.

On another shared path was told to slow down by a bloke who was on the pavement bit it's wide there too, I'm starting to hate people more than cars lol.

Cyclists with headphones one and listening to music are probably a close second.

 

[TrishE]

Cyclists with headphones one and listening to music are probably a close second.

He wouldn't have heard me if he had headphones in too so would have hit me as unless I went into oncoming traffic I had nowhere to go.

 

[tallliman]

Had an interesting couple of commutes yesterday. Took on Beacon Hill, at 800ft the highest point around me. Knocked 2mins off my best for the ascent (4miles) and then went in reasonably hard to work. Came back home pushing hard and held 20mph for 13miles of it...impressed with myself.

Does anyone else here occasionally ride harder for the odd commute?

 

[RoubaixCube]

Scorchio out there! Did a mile to the station and im sweating bullets. 2 mile hop to work next