Tales from today's commute....

[Miquel In De Rain]

Managed to get a changeover for tomorrow so I can do an earlier 0530 commute as opposed to 8am..Also means I may be able to go my favourite route via Tower Bridge without it being over infested with tin cans.

 

[clarion]

What? A driver not paying attention to where he was going? Surely not!

That was a serious crunch. But the gridlock was terrible. All the way down Broadway past Amen Corner and into Mitcham it was all just standing.

 

[3narf]

Cold today, stuff in my bum bag sticking in my back and causing discomfort but I couldn't be bothered to stop.

All cycle bays taken when I got to work (T3 Heathrow); amazing what a bit of sunny weather does! It wasn't quite the same story yesterday when I got to work at 0530 in the snow.

I'm very tired this eve and I still have to ride back to the site at 2am. I think I'm putting in too much effort for my current level of fitness but I don't feel safe unless I go flat out.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Pretty uneventful really. Apart from the driver of the silver people carrier that decided the obstruction on THEIR side of the road wasn't anything to stop for, and to drive AT ME making me stop so they could get past. Oh, and their frosted up car windows meant they didn't see me anyway......

 

[DCLane]

Fine going in on the heavy MTB on knobblies. [15kg Python Impact 9000 DD]

Coming home I spy a bike in the distance. Can I catch it up the hill? Yep - turns out someone's on a road bike but going ... very ... slowly. I call that a scalp

 

[Deleted member 1258]

In Coventry this morning the side roads were very iffy but the main roads were OK, My road and the next road were very icy, gently rode them using my legs and the fixed wheel to control my speed, most of the rest of the ride in was fine, the road before the road to the factory was icy and when I turned left there was a line of frozen puddles on the turn. Going home it was just a wet road until I got to my road and that was still icy.

 

[Matthew_T]

Toes werent that cold this morning. Had a nice commute both ways. A bus passed me very closely this morning though.

Had to rush home to see the uncle before he went to his hotel. Going to see him tomorrow though. Showed him my new bike too.

 

[Black Country Ste]

Was cut up by a MacDonald Surfacing van on Haden Circus, had an 'after you, I insist!' moment with a driver coming up a hill letting me go when I had already given way to them. Lots of texting drivers on the way home.

Endomondo and my new phone don't seem to get on so I had to estimate a time and manually create a workout. I'm dithering over whether to get a Garmin 200 but my old phone is still doing the job.

 

[subaqua]

Uneventful ride home last night- kept up well with the guy infront of me. its always easier to keep a good pace when there is somebody in front.

this morning was a flippin cold one , still beat the PB again now down to 30 minutes and 29 Seconds . CS2 route on endo if anybody wants to look

 

[potsy]

One word- Cold.
-4c and icy roads, even the Marathon winters did a little slide at one point

 

[martint235]

Cold. That is all.

 

[Vikeonabike]

Refreshing ride home last night

 

[potsy]

Cold. That is all.

Soft ar$e

We still have one resident nutter at work who is still riding in shorts

 

[mangid]

Freezing fog here in Cambridge, always fun, specially when you go for a brake lever after an hour or so and it slips thru your multi layered gloved grip :-)

 

[Sandra6]

I went to work via the gym, was nice to be on a different route for a change. It snowed on the way there, but I seem to be the only one who noticed.
Mr6 is getting quite nervy about me cycling with the possibility of snow and ice, he's made me promise to leave the bike at work if it turns nasty. I hope that means he'll come and get me with the car!