Tales from today's commute....

[Supersuperleeds]

Makes riding a bike so worthwhile

I doubt it was the same one though

I was thinking similar. No way would I have seen it like that if I was in a car.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Question please guys,

Seems from having a read through this thread briefly that a lot of you have 2nd bikes for during winter when its really wet, muddy & generally freezing. What i'm curious, do any of you have a scruffy older bike for winter & then something nicer for in the summer?

For instance at the mo i'm on an old globetrotter mountain bike that i've had fitted with some hybrid tyres so its more geared towards road use & also some wrap round mud guards that come almost right round. Its old & a bit scruffy, bit of light surface rust that i've cleaned up & frame is a bit scraped etc. For summer, bought off a mate for 40 quid a muddyfox that i'm planning to use mainly on bike trails, canal towpaths etc.

I did but the trek got wet and the other bike is hard work

So I have kept going on the trek but it looks awful
The gears are a mess so once the good weather is here it will get stripped down and rebuilt back to its glory

I am then going to get me a hybrid for a few hundred quid and winterise it

I need mid guards!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Question please guys,

Seems from having a read through this thread briefly that a lot of you have 2nd bikes for during winter when its really wet, muddy & generally freezing. What i'm curious, do any of you have a scruffy older bike for winter & then something nicer for in the summer?

For instance at the mo i'm on an old globetrotter mountain bike that i've had fitted with some hybrid tyres so its more geared towards road use & also some wrap round mud guards that come almost right round. Its old & a bit scruffy, bit of light surface rust that i've cleaned up & frame is a bit scraped etc. For summer, bought off a mate for 40 quid a muddyfox that i'm planning to use mainly on bike trails, canal towpaths etc.

I have a hybrid that I throw ice tyres on for icy days and use it in the summer for pootling around with the missus. I then have my day to day commuter for all other weather conditions and use it right round the year.

Both bikes are usually at the stage where they need a good clean

 

[ManiaMuse]

Getting noticeably lighter both in the mornings and evenings now. Left work just before sunset today (was at 4.59pm) and still some blue in the sky when I got home.

Can't wait for spring.

 

[BianchiVirgin]

Bizarre evening yesterday. Left work without my tool bottle which has my puncture bits. Seeing as it's a bit of a chore to get back in to site I decided to leave it and hope...... yes, 300m later I was flat on the rear. So I had to walk back in the rain, get the tool bottle, do a tube change and hope I didn't get another as I only had the one tube and no more gas. So now I've 2 tubes and I fitted my small frame pump. Time to swap out the crap tyres for some 4 season jobs or gator skins. Offending article was a fragment of glass.

 

[Arjimlad]

I had an odd experience last night, buzzing home along a single track road with passing places.

The 2 cars in front of me approached a wider part of the road and went past a waiting van with a few cars waiting behind it. The van only had sidelights on & although I was prepared to stop for him, flashed me (I thought to carry on through).

As I approached him, the van driver kept flashing me and then popped his lights on full beam & drove straight towards me from about fifteen yards away. I stopped because I was blinded and there was hardly any space for us both to pass. He then slowed and got over, leaving enough room for me to get past. Apparently when he flashes a car it means "come on" but when he flashes a bike it means "get out of my way".

I would not have bothered reporting it but the van's VED has been unpaid since last October, so in went the video !

 

[MrGrumpy]

Icy this morning once in town, was not expecting that!

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Almost full sunlight when i left
Just brilliant!

 

[Macca85]

Kevin_cambs_uk:

Full wrap round mud guards are the best all rounders on hybrid bikes. I stick mainly to bike paths, canal towpaths etc so are ideal for keeping majority of the crap off.

Saw an unusual 1 this morning though, a young lad who lives near me regularly commutes 8 miles a day on his BMX

Must have bloody tired legs after that, credit to him though as they were made for youngsters to whizz about on not commuting

 

[13 rider]

Kevin_cambs_uk:

Full wrap round mud guards are the best all rounders on hybrid bikes. I stick mainly to bike paths, canal towpaths etc so are ideal for keeping majkritm of he crap off.

Saw an unusual 1 this morning though, a young lad who lives near me regularly commutes 8 miles a day on his BMX

Must have bloody tired legs after that, credit to him though as they were made for youngsters to whizz about on not commuting

To tag someone put the @ before there name ie @Macca85 then they get an alert

 

[Macca85]

@13 rider thanks for that, hadn't realised. Much appreciated info.

 

[dhd.evans]

Deleted the video but got some comedy gold last night; traffic lights changed, started off and a Methadone Michael decided he was going to disembark from the pavement and cross the road in front of me. I bellowed 'Hullo!' at him and he got such a fright he froze then jumped on the spot.

Silly pharmaceutical specialists....

 

[lazybloke]

A very near miss on the way home tonight, when someone pulled out halfway across the road right in front of me whilst I was doing 23mph.
Thought my face would be going through the driver's window, or if I was very lucky I'd go over the roof, but amazingly my brakes did the trick (despite wet roads) - I stopped about 4 inches short of the driver's door.

Didn't think to look at the reg plates. Maybe it's time I dug out my camera and found space for in on the bars.

Heart rate should be back to normal by now

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

No bike today or tomorrow, I've got 100 mile round trip on both days

 

[briantrumpet]

Glad I was ready to stop...