Tales from today's commute....

[Dec66]

Very mild commute home tonight. Started off with a windcheater over my SS Jersey. Had to take the windcheater off as I was warming up just a tad too much.
I could see very dark rainclouds the the direction I was heading so got a wiggle on to get on home. Walked through the door just as a few drops of rain hit followed by a quick downpour a minute or so later. Lucky.

I wasn't so lucky.

In the distance, when setting off, the sky looked like a little kid had drawn it; a line of dark cloud next to a line of pale blue sky. Clear delineation. I estimated I'd hit the clear sky when I got to Dulwich.

At the Elephant, God turned the taps full on, and carried on turning them on and off all the way home.

Never did get to that blue bit. I thought I had, after a dowsing through Beckenham. Going down Wickham Way through Park Langley, it was like there'd been no rain, and the sky seemed to lighten.

As soon as I got to the mini roundabout at the bottom of Wickham Way, going on to Red Lodge Road, the heavens opened yet again, torrentially, the worst of a very bad night.

Quite freaky, really. Either no rain or biblical rain, no in between.

 

[Simontm]

Surprised you haven't got a spare.Came in handy a year or two ago when I got bike down the stairs and it had a slow p*nct*r£.Got it upstairs and whipped out the other bike of the two spares at the time.Hope you are ok after what happened.

In a fit of sheer laziness I have my dad's tank (a Norco hybrid) and a Pinnacle hybrid sitting in my shed with busted spokes
But...I have my bike!! Picked it up today

 

[Lonestar]

In a fit of sheer laziness I have my dad's tank (a Norco hybrid) and a Pinnacle hybrid sitting in my shed with busted spokes
But...I have my bike!! Picked it up today

Well with the nightmare you had on public transport I couldn't do it.I know what it's like catching a tube in the rush hour.Years back when I had a p*nct*re at Bow and trying to get on the tube at Mile End,without bike obviously.Glad your new bike is here.

 

[subaqua]

Utterly soaked. Started hammering down at Paddington and hammered down all the way to home in Leytonstone . Skins waterproof tho !!

 

[Dec66]

Utterly soaked. Started hammering down at Paddington and hammered down all the way to home in Leytonstone . Skins waterproof tho !!

I bought some Sealskins socks at the Excel before Ride London. £31.50. I baulked at paying that for them.

Tonight, I thought that was the best £31.50 I've ever spent. Everything saturated, apart from my feet.

 

[subaqua]

Strangely enough my feet were dry as had my steel toe capped work boots on. Sadly this morning they were still damp and damp had moved through to the inside. Will have to obtain new boots from PPE store in work

 

[Leaway2]

Wet ride in and passed a rider down at the corner of Thorley lane/Sydney ave nr the entrance to staff west (for those MAN staff on here). The ambulance was in attendance and he was sat up. No evidence what happened, but this is where the airport perimeter cycle path (that I don't use) crosses Sydney ave. Hope he is OK.

 

[Simontm]

On the new bike and it's quite jittery- although that could just be me
Nice pace in with no real problems apart from the lower gears are a bit clunky, again that could just be me getting used to the 105s.
Numpty count:0 although some poor sod got a ear full from me for half pulling out

 

[rivers]

I looked like a drowned rat by the time I arrived at work today. And my bike (as well as myself) was absolutely filthy. I just cleaned it yesterday....

 

[Ciar]

Well last night i stepped out the office, into the river thames my god did it rain, no boil in the bag but i did have my endura roubaix and new seal skin gloves, the shorts were stuck to me and my shoes were soaked, but all in all i got home in one piece hah

 

[Sixmile]

I tried my 'winter route' meaning a extra few miles but mostly off the main roads and more onto a greenway. At the top of the greenway I then seen the traffic was stopped still as the dual carriageway was down to one lane for resurfacing. Work had stopped so I nipped between the cones and had the whole resurfaced lane to myself for a mile or so while the cars were stopped still, great! I had also decided to wear my recently purchased Planet X lobster gloves yesterday but they were far far too warm, my hands were soaking a few miles in.

 

[Simontm]

Head and side wind home but wasn't toooo much hassle. As I start getting used to the gearing, I overtook someone on the Richmond Rd, cue him bombing away to overtake me at Sheen
On the rise to Richmond Bridge I was on the right of another cyclist, each matching the other then I had a thought:'I'm going straight on mate, you?' 'Ah,' he says, 'Turning right...after you'
Numpty count:0

 

[hennbell]

Worth sending the footage to the police possibly? I saw a few patrol cars near where it happened but none of them bothered chasing these people down

If you can make out some licence plate numbers in your footage you could send it in, but odds are little if anything will be done.

 

[Simontm]

Quickish ride in. Idiot took a exception to me overtaking him so he jumped almost every light. Thing is...he was really really slow so I was catching him every time.
Numpty count:0

 

[Sixmile]

Traffic was peculiarly very light this morning. Normally with the low sun and damp conditions the roads are chock-a-block.

Why do the vast majority of city drivers drive diesels? They are stinking aul things.