Tales from today's commute....

[confusedcyclist]

I was also close passed AGAIN on a narrow, blind bend with solid white line this morning. The young lady looked like a deer in the headlights when I tapped on her windows a minute down the road, I caught her using her phone behind the wheel, what looked like strava/map my run of all things!!!

When asked what she thought the solid white line running down the middle of the road meant, she confessed she hadn't the faintest. I was doing about 25mph as she veered past me with mm to spare as oncoming traffic approached the bend. She was very apologetic (I assume for being caught!) and very lucky I didn't have my camera fitted today. I was polite, but very firm and told her she ought to be more careful. I hope she will.

 

[Bazzer]

My guardian angel was sitting on my shoulders for the commute home today. Less than half a mile from work moved to the left of my normal road position in order to avoid a couple of horrendous potholes and a bus decided to jump the gap between me a line of stationary traffic. Nowhere to go and suffered a really close (brushed the jacket) pass. Clearly inspired by the bus driver's use of the road, a woman in Golf then pulls the same stunt. I have no idea how here wing mirrors didn't clip me. Then 10 miles further on, a woman in a red Peugeot coming from a junction on the opposite side of the road, decides she needs the whole of the road, including the cycle lane, to travel the same direction as me. I am not convinced she even saw me braking hard as I stopped just short of her nearside wing.
I pulled the trigger on the purchase of a Cyclic 12 last Friday, after a couple of unpleasantly close passes on recreational rides and a couple of pleasant interactions with wildlife I wish I had a record of. If tonight is anything to go by, it cannot come soon enough.

 

[Ciar]

Nothing exciting to report, it seems we have moved from rain and cold with wind, to warmer climes with wind, generally in my face! tonight i see the forecast is back to rain from 5pm in London yay

 

[si_c]

Cocked up on the way home last night, didn't register a car indicating right as I went through a mini roundabout, just assumed they were going straight on. Thankfully the driver was on the ball and was able to stop in time, I still needed to take evasive action though. I did shout and wave to convey my apologies, but I doubt I've done much for cyclist/motorist relations.

Today's extended commute in however was utterly uneventful.

 

[Bazzer]

Lovely ride in.
Tonight an hour and twenty minutes of heavy rain and massive puddles and thus soaked. Only 1 dickhead which was a bonus after last night.

 

[Randombiker9]

fine apart from had to slow down and go round to avoid hitting a car that failed to give way. Pulled out without looking and then stopped


ps also weird coquincedence but all close passes and close calls veichle number plates have started with the first initial of my name or my brothers name.

 

[Clanghead]

Stopped my bike at a zebra crossing this morning to allow a lady to cross it, and a car driver chose to overtake me just as said lady started to walk across. So rude.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

What a surprise, another wet commute, on the plus side it wasn't as windy as this morning.

 

[hennbell]

We have gone straight from winter to summer, it is 20C today short sleeve shirt and shorts are the order of the day.

 

[Bazzer]

Shoes, neoprene overshoes and bag still very damp after last night's soaking. Glad I put on my warmer base layer as the breeze had a bite to it.

 

[ianrauk]

It's a bit nippy this morning but not so much as to still be in ss shirt and shorts. Lovely sunny morning here in Kentishire

 

[C R]

My normal route is open again, so back to the good, and shorter, cyclepath. Lots of parents walking the children to school in the beautiful, if a bit nippy, weather, made for a slower than normal progress, but everyone were cheerful and helpful sharing the path.
Lets hope the forecast for rain this afternoon is wrong.

 

[ianrauk]

The second part of the cycle commute this morning was just as sunny as the first.
Met up with a fellow commuter who I have been bumping into on and off ever since I have being doing the A21 which is now in my 13th year. He's been riding the route 3 years more. Always good to have a chat with him and he's quick too.

Also saw a chap riding a bike with the same frame as mine. First one I have seen. Managed to have a quick chat with him but he decided to rlj so that wasn't cool.

 

[Bazzer]

Another soaking tonight.
Managed just to get damp by sheltering during the first heavy shower. Cowering under the eaves of an empty shop I realised the irony of my stopping place.

Not so lucky with the second shower. 2 miles from home, caught in a down pour with nowhere to shelter. Which of course stopped about 400 yards from home.

 

[Jenkins]

Massive cloudburst just as I was getting ready to leave work, so I just had to have another cup of coffee while waiting for it to pass. Second downpour about 1.5 miles from home, but I was able to get to cover fairly quickly to wait it out.
The red blob in the radar picture below is producing quite a lot of lightning off the coast at the moment!