Tales from today's commute....

[Maverick Goose]

Enjoying the lighter evenings, lots of bats flitting around, also the odd numpty driver who thinks it's ok to drive far too fast at night on a narrow lane.

 

[Arjimlad]

Oncoming van? No bother, just squeeze past the cyclist to make room for it.

Don't even think about slowing down until the road ahead is clear enough to leave 1.5m passing space.

Reported.

 

[Threevok]

Oncoming van? No bother, just squeeze past the cyclist to make room for it.

Don't even think about slowing down until the road ahead is clear enough to leave 1.5m passing space.

Reported. View attachment 414896

"How's my driving ?"

Well we all have his number now

 

[Arjimlad]

"How's my driving ?"

Well we all have his number now

Not ideal. I prefer to let the Police make contact !

 

[dhd.evans]

Well, i got my first brown-pant moment of the week as this chap stepped out between cars whilst i was filtering through:

 

[John_S]

It was blooming windy this evening when riding home and what was worse is that I took a short route to work this morning because I had something that needed doing early. Therefore with the route I took I didn't really get the full benefit of the tailwind this morning.

However with a little bit more time to take a longer route home I took advantage and to be honest any ride is a good one, especially when it's dry, but it was a real struggle into a headwind for a lot of my journey this evening and it was a real struggle to maintain any speed.

Still the positive was that the roads were nice and quiet after 7pm by the time the football had kicked off bar the odd vehicle who on more than one occasion seemed to take the quite roads as the go ahead to drive well in excess of the speed limit.

Hope that everyone has a good week commuting however unfortunately going by a few of the most recent posts above it's not started so brightly for all and sorry for Arjimlad and did.evans who have already had heart in the mouth moments.

John

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It's winter here. My GPS computer told me it was -1.0° on my ride to work, and it stayed that way for well over half an hour of the commute.

 

[classic33]

"How's my driving ?"

Well we all have his number now

Only there's at least two seperate companies using it.

 

[PeteXXX]

No commute recently, or for another week, as I’m on my hols

Quick Q though. Is the Guided Busway, Stives to Cambridge open at the moment? I’m up and down it on Thursday. (Hopefully!)

 

[dhd.evans]

Brutal headwind this morning; even on the drops i couldn't break 17mph on the flats. Still, much like last night, i'll get a good tailwind.

Also, dragged after a lorry last night on a Strava section and surpassed my current KoM; tbf, i was tanning 40mph for most of it so not a surprise!

 

[Lonestar]

Well, i got my first brown-pant moment of the week as this chap stepped out between cars whilst i was filtering through:

I cringed when I saw that.On assumption it looked like you were going to fast for the conditions.

 

[dhd.evans]

I cringed when I saw that.On assumption it looked like you were going to fast for the conditions.

Perception of the camera unfortunately; travelling at about 15mph, so not rocketspeeds.

 

[Lonestar]

Perception of the camera unfortunately; travelling at about 15mph, so not rocketspeeds.

Well plenty of blind spots to your right where peds may cross.I was trying to catch a bloke on the CS 3 last year going about the same speed when suddenly a pram appeared in my path,I had better visibility (I just about missed it with a swerve on the fixie) and would I blame myself although i'm pretty sure the pram owner didn't look.Still my fault I should have known better and should have been cycling more defensive.Too many hazrds on the CS 3 to be cycling like an idiot.I had better vision than you had plus with the mobile phone menace you don't know what planet these peds are on anyway.Your mate wasn't even on a phone but was unaware of the hazrds around him which is also the same sort of behaviour which happens in London.

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Good luck.

 

[si_c]

Pretty grim wind this morning, 15mph cross headwind gusting to 25. On the upside, it's swung around this afternoon, so I have a full headwind home instead.

 

[Sixmile]

After 4 glorious perfect days cycling around Holland, I was back on the commute yesterday morning. Less than 10 minutes into the commute I got a horn blared at me as I filtered to a stop at a set of traffic lights. Oh what I'd give for bicycle priority junctions like the Netherlands! Then I got properly drenched on the way home. Nice ride in this morning though with the wind behind.