Tales from today's commute....

[Arjimlad]

Back on the bike at last after a week, for an easy 6 mile bimble into the office. It was still dark enough to show off my battery-powered Christmas lights to good effect as well. Ho ho ho !

 

[Leaway2]

Good Lord it was raining this morning. Got to work, got changed. Looked out of the window to see it had stopped raining

 

[I like Skol]

Good Lord it was raining this morning. Got to work, got changed. Looked out of the window to see it had stopped raining

Yes, I copped for that too on the schoolrun

 

[edrobbin]

I was struck by the courtesy of a WVM this evening - bad traffic, big queue, not enough room on right, so I head up the left. White transit stopped millimetres from the kerb. He actually pulled out to let me pass. I wave thanks, he flashes. Good karma.

Must have been a cyclist

 

[edrobbin]

Yes, I copped for that too on the schoolrun

Just noticed your bike list - I had a 1991/2 GT Zaskar LE - Bought it off a semi-pro rider who was on my course at uni. That was what student loans were for!

 

[I like Skol]

Just noticed your bike list - I had a 1991/2 GT Zaskar LE - Bought it off a semi-pro rider who was on my course at uni. That was what student loans were for!

Funnily enough my 1st and only student loan went on an MTB back in 1991/2. I didn't go back to do the second year because I needed to earn some cash to feed my bike/car/girl habit

 

[Supersuperleeds]

The nice weather this morning seemed to bring all the cyclists back out, saw more this morning than I've seen in the last six weeks or so. They'd all disappeared by tonight though.

 

[Lonestar]

It was one of the reasons I decided to take up cycle commuting again over 10 years ago. It was hell then. It's hell now.

Same here many years ago.I haven't been on a tube train for over two years and a bus even longer.

Three pedestrians stepped out on me from parked cars or in traffic in the last two days.One in Forest Gate yesterday and one in a Leytonstone backstreet today but managed to avoid or stop.Not so lucky on the return up Poplar High Street tonight where a ped stepped out from the traffic while I was filtering down the middle and I saw him very late as he was dressed in black and I caught him with my left shoulder and I think it just caught him by surprise as he said "oof" but he didn't lose his phone which he was staring at as he crossed in between.No apology so I guess it was my fault.

Must say I feel guilty and unprofessional though.

 

[Simontm]

Weird behaviour from a bus on the way from battersea to Wandsworth, every time a bike got near he closed down the gap and actually went into the bike lane. Greasy ride home and to top it off the front discbrake is rubbing so either I need to reset the wheel again or basically it's automatic readjust? Is it f... frankly.
Numpty count:0

 

[Reynard]

A hilly (well, for cambridgeshire) 5 mile commute to the station this morning into a stiff headwind, in the peeing rain and on roads that seemed to have magically accumulated a half inch coating of liquid mud overnight. Return to the station this evening and couldn't even get back onto my bike. Took me several attempts before I could slowly wobble off home...

At least nearly all of the bike commuters had already gone home, so no one was witness to my moment of shame This commuting lark is far harder than it looks...

 

[rivers]

Lovely ride in this morning. I had to take off my jacket over by Temple Meads as I was overheating. As I was cycling down Siston Hill along the cycle path, a deer bounded across in front of me. That was quite cool. Numpty count: 1. A WVM decided to undertake me in a roundabout so he could exit before I did. That was fun

 

[Twizit]

Nothing of interest to report this morning... especially given it was completed on the train... which was delayed as usual

I did see my first live badger cycling through Richmond Park last night though. Looked as surprised to see me as I was to see it!

 

[Leaway2]

I did see my first live badger cycling through Richmond Park last night though. Looked as surprised to see me as I was to see it!

A cycling Badger. Wow.

 

[Arjimlad]

A cycling Badger. Wow.

Have you never heard of a Brocks saddle ? Made by badgers, for badgers.

 

[Twizit]

A cycling Badger. Wow.