Tales from today's commute....

[tomahawk]

18 miles yesterday no problem. Today 1.5 and puncture fairy arrives, go figure. Luckily it happened almost near the bike shop so I threw it in there.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

11 miles this morning, stop/start all the way must have hit every light on red. Side roads very icy, main roads clear in Leicester.

 

[BSRU]

Very interesting when cycling on a dark country lane when the noisy studs suddenly become quiet, a couple of places in the town had sheet ice covering the entire width of the road.

Had my CC buff covering my nose and mouth, in my head I kept hearing Adam and the Ants " Stand and Deliver" as the buff made me look like a dandy highwayman .

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Side roads where bad this morning, clothes had dried out from last night though amazingly, got soaked with sleet

 

[fossyant]

Main roads quite icy on the run into Manchester. Slight back wheel step out on my estate, but fine from there

 

[GrasB]

I got on my bike & rode 29.4 miles to work on slicks without issue

Going home wasn't a problem desipte being on 23mm slicks. This morning, however, I was very glad to be riding on spiked tyres. A fair number of icy patches dotted all over the place from melt water.

 

[donnydave]

Ride home last night was very slow due to the cassette turning into a ball of ice which made the chain skip, so only had big/big gear (whatever ratio it is on the Mrs' mountain bike). Limited to about 10mph. cleaned it all up last night and oiled with tender loving care like the bike hadn't seen in about 10 years. Ride in this morning was glorious. Bit dodgy on slushy ice puddles but generally ok

 

[BSRU]

A good thing about this morning is that at about 7:15 lights for illuminating the road were no longer required

 

[Andrew_P]

Main roads no problems, the last 4 miles were not so good, having the rear wheel keep on slipping out, motorcyclist buzzed pass me, 5 or so minutes up the road there he was nestled in the mud with a group of cars and people around him. Seemed ok a bit dazed I resisted the "serves you right" It was patchy but there were signifcant long strips of ice, and the number of cars still belting along at 40-50 was worrying!!

Pulled up at the lights where there is a left hand filter lane, I pulled up to the right of the first car in lane one so cars could still filter up and take the left turn, some tosser comes up lane one, but so he can still let the cars turn left his pulled up about 10 inches from my left leg, we had a pretty unpleasant conversation which started with him telling me to fark off, which then led to me getting off my bike at which point he wound his windo (and his neck in)

 

[Matthew_T]

Nice commute this morning. No wind at all. Not even as cold as I thought it would be.

 

[Kookas]

Very icy today but no real black ice patches - just a few frozen puddles. Made me think I ought to get a neckwarmer though.

 

[jarlrmai]

Nice ride in, a few rear tyre slip outs, took it easy and arrived without even breaking a sweat.

 

[Hacienda71]

Main roads didn't seem too bad this morning. avoided going too close to any icey puddles.

 

[apb]

tale from my dads ride today, after picking his bike up from the shop he got a close over take from a 4x4 whilst going through a lane with cars parked on both sides, the driver then pulled out across a give way at a crossroads and got t-boned at some speed by a minibus on the main road.

I would like to say "serves him right". But i'm a better man than that. So, HAHA.

p.s. Hope no one was hurt.

 

[gaz]

Had a great ride in today. Temps below freezing most of the way, bumped into a college on vauxhall bridge where we saw a rider that had gone under a bus, I suspect he tried to filter in front of it as it was moving. Rider was ok, talking on the phone I presume to the police.