Tales from today's commute....

[Randombiker9]

Good morning,

I always love complaints about other road users accompanied by video clips. :-)

You seem completely oblivious to the fact that you are riding on the "wrong side of the road" (I know that this is permissible when safe) and are forcing oncoming drivers to divert from their route to avoid hitting you.

Bye

Ian

No it's called filtering, we're alllowed to fillter it's better to filter on the right side compared to the inside. and temporary traffic lights . (Roadwaorks had shut the left side off hence temp lights) So what are you talking about? did you not see the temp lights, road works or not know about filtering?

 

[icowden]

Nothing wrong with the cycling in that video. Everything wrong with the Cabbie.
Sweeping generalisation here but a number of them are utter s***^*^*&^^%$^%. They hate cyclists and will do anything to get past them even WHEN THERE IS NO POINT.

I'm more cautious and would probably have gone up the left side but I'd still have been in the same position going through the roadworks.

 

[skudupnorth]

Do you know who I hate. Bloody Smart car drivers. With their stupid little hair drier on wheels. Thinking they are somehow saving the environment. Well you're not. It still has four wheels, it has an engine, runs on petrol and belches out fumes. You are just as bad as all the other polluting numpty motons who likes to think you can try to bully cyclists off the road. One of the little shytebags decided he didn't like the 3 cyclists in front of him at a junction so decided to hi rev and pass us very close on a couple of occasions whilst ranting and raving out of his window. Coward wouldn't stop at the road side when I asked him so we could talk. Twat of the highest order.

Apart from that, it was a lovely, very warm, windless, fairly traffic free, fairly fast commute in.

Those little $h1t boxes only run on higher octane fuel as well, bags of puss !

 

[skudupnorth]

Well i've been back on the bike for just over three weeks after all my old fart operations and i can safely say it's great to be back ! Still have the odd idiot trying to bugger the day up but thats not going to stop me

 

[Randombiker9]

Nothing wrong with the cycling in that video. Everything wrong with the Cabbie.
Sweeping generalisation here but a number of them are utter s***^*^*&^^%$^%. They hate cyclists and will do anything to get past them even WHEN THERE IS NO POINT.

I'm more cautious and would probably have gone up the left side but I'd still have been in the same position going through the roadworks.

Lol thanks. Just wondering can you report taxis to their company and if so how do you know where they come from or are they to do with the council?. I did google te reg before and it said London. Which doesn’t make sense because I’m not in London.

 

[I like Skol]

Nearly forgot to mention tonight's cat and mouse commute.

Working funny shifts this week due to school holidays and child care responsibilities, so finishing work at 12.30 in the morning. I'm used to seeing plenty of wildlife when doing the nocturnal commutes, foxes, hedgehogs, badgers, owls, bats etc, even though it is a largely urban route.
Tonight was a new one. As I was heading up Stockport Road West towards Bredbury I saw something appear to tumble out into the road ahead of me, like a leaf blowing across the tarmac. As I got closer it turned out to be a short, chubby mouse which turned and dashed back toward the kerb as I got to within a foot or two of it. A few hundred yards later a fat lazy domestic cat sauntered across the road in front of me and I thought to myself 'no use being here mate, all the mice are partying in the street a short way back down the hill'!

#Ilovecyclecommuting

 

[icowden]

Lol thanks. Just wondering can you report taxis to their company and if so how do you know where they come from or are they to do with the council?. I did google te reg before and it said London. Which doesn’t make sense because I’m not in London.

The key is that little license square. It will tell you who their licensing operator is. i tried reporting one to the Met a few weeks ago but got nothing.

Iain

 

[BeardyAndyM]

No it's called filtering, we're alllowed to fillter it's better to filter on the right side compared to the inside. and temporary traffic lights . (Roadwaorks had shut the left side off hence temp lights) So what are you talking about? did you not see the temp lights, road works or not know about filtering?

I would question why he stayed on the right so long after leaving the roadworks, its not like he was carrying a lot of speed. Right or wrong it helps to be courteous and in that instance the polite thing to do would be get over to the left asap.

 

[Randombiker9]

I would question why he stayed on the right so long after leaving the roadworks, its not like he was carrying a lot of speed. Right or wrong it helps to be courteous and in that instance the polite thing to do would be get over to the left asap.

What do you mean? I stopped to avoid an accident and he went past and then turned l to he could of easily knocked me off or hooked me if I stayed in the left on his inside and it’s not on a camera but a few moments after that there’s a small junction where I have to change into a bus lane (which is on the right)

 

[skudupnorth]

Well my commute ended in such an amazing way !! I am on phased return to work after my lay off and there was an official cutting of the ribbon for the newly completed stretch of the Bridgewater way at Astley. For those who may not know,this stretch has always been called the "muddy mile" due to it being left in an aweful condition whilst each side of it had been resurfaced into an amazing cycle/walking link. Finally everyone came together and the path has now been finished and to officially open this section we had the legend that is Chris Boardman and the Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnam along with people from Peel Holdings who own this section. After all the interviews and pomp,i spoke to Chris and he kindly had his photo taken with me and my Boardman fixie on which he commented on how good it looked even though it had a few mods and being an early 2011 model. I was a bit chuffed !!! On top of that,he had rode from Manchester on one of his latest bikes, top bloke. He was heading partially my way so it was rude not to ride with him along the canal before i turned off,i wished him a safe ride and we went our separate ways,best commute ever !!!

 

[13 rider]

@skudupnorth is the last photo Chris Boardman dropping you . Please try harder

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Fabulous, thanks for sharing!

Burnham and Boardman, next PM and transport secretary?

I'd vote for them.

What are the odds?

 

[Jenkins]

My round trip commute for the past two days has been exactly the same distance to the hundredth of a mile!
(Garmin 500 tracked)

 

[skudupnorth]

@skudupnorth is the last photo Chris Boardman dropping you . Please try harder

I was letting him go in front, he had those gear things and I was on my fixie

 

[skudupnorth]

Fabulous, thanks for sharing!

Burnham and Boardman, next PM and transport secretary?

I'd vote for them.

What are the odds?

Both passionate about improving safe infrastructure for everyone who doesn’t want to drive everywhere, good times ahead I hope. Andy Burnham is so down to earth along with Chris of course