Tales from today's commute....

[HarryTheDog]

I must have a sign on my forehead today that says please annoy this guy as much as possible. After this morning shennanigans I was hoping for a quiet day but disaster struck at work and I did not leave work till after 18:00.
On the ride to the station I had a guy start drafting me who then started to roar like a lion and then whoop like a Chimpanzee for no apparent reason. I deemed him slightly un-hinged, not dangerous but bloody annoying.
Then I got to the station and the duty drunk decided I was to be his next best friend, luckily he was catching a different train so only had to put up with him for ten long minutes.

 

[C R]

I must have a sign on my forehead today that says please annoy this guy as much as possible. After this morning shennanigans I was hoping for a quiet day but disaster struck at work and I did not leave work till after 18:00.
On the ride to the station I had a guy start drafting me who then started to roar like a lion and then whoop like a Chimpanzee for no apparent reason. I deemed him slightly un-hinged, not dangerous but bloody annoying.
Then I got to the station and the duty drunk decided I was to be his next best friend, luckily he was catching a different train so only had to put up with him for ten long minutes.

At least you didn't have to sit in traffic.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I had to take a client to an interview yesterday. This meant catching the train together, riding past my apartment to their possible future place of work, catching the train back past my apartment to get them back to their local station, then cycling back to my apartment.

I was late back. Still, it's overtime.

 

[HarryTheDog]

At least you didn't have to sit in traffic.

I think yestarday I would have rather sat in traffic. I ended up on the work computer till 23:00 last night and fell out of bed still working on yestardays problems this morning. Now WFH today and Thursday. Wed and Friday customer meetings so no cycle commutes.

 

[C R]

I think yestarday I would have rather sat in traffic. I ended up on the work computer till 23:00 last night and fell out of bed still working on yestardays problems this morning. Now WFH today and Thursday. Wed and Friday customer meetings so no cycle commutes.

You should have taken this week on holiday by the sound of it.

 

[fossyant]

WFH yesterday so did 21 miles on the road bike at lunch. In the office today - cold and breezy, but, first time in months, I got to work not covered in mud. The canal was surprisingly dry - long may this continue.

 

[palinurus]

Nice ride home. Not quite halfway back I noticed a cyclist ahead of me had slowed and pulled into a parking space and was looking back at me so I stopped- turns out it was @Juan Kog.

 

[HLaB]

A bit of a chalk and cheese commute for me today. In the morning it was a strong headwind all the way and 0deg. At a guess I was 35mins to town on another day I'd be around 30mins. That 5mins makes a massive difference and puts me right into the middle of school run chaos. That said my stationary time is only 2 mins, a driver probably faces 10mins. Just as I got through town I p'tured (I made the mistake of seeing the thread that has the full p word. That's a curse and it was bound to happen). I decided though I was close enough to the office and powered up the 1/4 mile 5 % hill then round the bend to the office to warm up. That was the right decision and I fixed it at lunch in 10deg sunshine.
That heat had hung around to this evening and I managed with a strong tailie to do the hillier reverse about 6 minutes faster and get to the station before it got dark and the temperature started to fall again.

 

[GeekDadZoid]

Was working at my mate's ( and colleague's ) house today so had a fab 9km ride over to his, including a great section of Riverside path.

Saw loads of people out and about on their bikes too, really felt like winter is coming to the end.

 

[Andy in Germany]

First commute in almost daylight both ways for this year.

 

[Alex321]

"Interesting" commute in to work this morning. Coming down the road between Pendoylan and Gwern-y-Steeple, came up behind a recent coming-together of van and car. Car was right up on the bank at one side, leaning against the front of the van. If the van reversed out, the odds are the car would fall on its' side.

After a few minutes, when it was obvious nobody was going anywhere soon (and by which time a bus had also pulled up behind me), I managed to hand my bike over the top of the car bonnet to the car driver (both drivers were out of the vehicles and OK, no passengers), then wriggle myself past the other side of the van and carry on.

Then, once in Cardiff, a van pulled out across my path from a side street - fortunately he saw me and stopped just in time for me to swerve around the front - if he hadn't stopped, I'd have hit him, because I couldn't have stopped in time.

And then a few hundred yards on, a raised crossing with a woman walking parallel to the road, suddenly turned onto the crossing without glancing up to see if anything coming too close to stop - again, I had to swerve around her front. I was less than 3 seconds from the crossing when she turned towards it, doing 18mph.

 

[fossyant]

Same as Tuesday, WFH Weds, so out on road bike again, then today MTB on the canal to work - it's dry, my bike is clean Massive difference to last week where the bike looked like a mobile swamp.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Daylight both ways, at last...

On the way in...

On the way back...

 

[MrGrumpy]

Back on the bike this week , been a while . Anyway pesky kids from local high school been dropping drawing pins on the cycle path . Managed to clear 5 of them with my tyres . Tubeless wins again !

 

[avecReynolds531]

After a striking rose colored sunrise, the sun arrived for leaving after a night shift. There wasn't one rain cloud (or what I've learned to recognise as rain clouds!) in the sky, but there was persistent showery rain for most of the commute. Couldn't see where the rain was originating from at all - bizarre & beyond my limited understanding.
No matter, cycling home in the morning after work is always good.