Tales from today's commute....

[Threevok]

Happy Birthday Tin Pot.
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Oh dear

HB @Tin Pot

Hope you get a single speed for your birthday

 

[confusedcyclist]

Happy Birthday Tin Pot.
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Game over!

 

[C R]

Happy Birthday Tin Pot.
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Ouch, hopefully no damage to you.

 

[Bazzer]

The like is for your birthday, not the broken derailleur.

 

[Tin Pot]

Thanks peeps. What can you do eh? Managed to call a cab out to “the middle of nowhere” as described by the the post office owner, so i should get to work some time this morning.

And I’ve bought two cakes while I’m here

 

[C R]

Thanks peeps. What can you do eh? Managed to call a cab out to “the middle of nowhere” as described by the the post office owner, so i should get to work some time this morning.

And I’ve bought two cakes while I’m here

If you have a chain tool you could always try and improvise a single speed ...

 

[rivers]

First commute in after my epic 150 mile ride on Sunday. My legs were not happy with me.

 

[Salty seadog]

Happy Birthday Tin Pot.
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What happened, did the jockey wheel screw come out?

 

[Arjimlad]

Happy birthday @Tin Pot may your derailleurs be forever blessed in future.

Had a blast into work this morning & managed a PR on a bit of road I've ridden more than 670 times before. At the moment I seem to be chasing PRs set when I used my phone to record rides on Strava, and when I was a little younger. So it felt great to hit this one !

 

[PeteXXX]

Don't forget the one in Holcot

That one is on my extended commute.
Great use of an old phone box

 

[Maverick Goose]

Not happy, some thug threatened to lamp me and then spat in my face before bravely driving off in a hurry this morning. What is it with these self-entitled morons. Sadly I was on my road bike this morning which hasn't got camera mounts, not that they would have picked much up other than the initial close pass as mine are not helmet mounted.

I stayed calm this time and didn't lose my rag like with the last guy. It would have ended up with one of us being arrested. Probably me after what he did. No witnesses, reg number or cam footage = no point in going to the police. Sometimes I wonder why I bother cycling. Today is one of those days.

Sorry to hear that-just hang in there!

 

[PeteXXX]

Just back home from a slightly extended commute. 12 miles there, 14 back.
No wind, and reasonably mild apart from a couple of frost hollows I go through. Decidedly nippy for 50 yards or so!!
No muppetry to report, happily.

 

[BromyG]

Usually nothing to report on my commutes, but unusually got shouted at this morning going around Trafalgar Square by a tour bus driver, 'Wot you cut me up for?!'. The answer, though he wouldn't have heard it, was that I wasn't going to stay where I was and get crushed between the Boris bus turning left and his huge double-decker which was cutting off my only means of escape!

 

[Arjimlad]

Stopped to help a fellow rider with a puncture today, someone I've been nodding to for a year or two as he flies past in the opposite direction.

He had three "snakebite" pinch punctures having gone over a pothole. I've never seen three in one go !

 

[Arjimlad]

Reported another mobile-phone fiddling twerp from last night's commute home.

He was drifting towards the kerb in slow-moving traffic in a large twincab SUV.

Didn't notice the cyclists passing (gingerly) on his left until he saw my camera recording him using his handheld phone. He didn't want to chat about it so perhaps the police might get his attention.