Tales from today's commute....
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Snow again in Leicester. Drastically shortened the route but no idea of the distance as my GPS decided to die on the way in. Looks like a wire has come away from the battery pack, will have to map the route later to get the distance, I already know the speed, very slow.
Roads were very wet and it is bitterly cold, ice tyres also back on (only took them off yesterday!)
Roads were very wet and it is bitterly cold, ice tyres also back on (only took them off yesterday!)
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
snowing gently on the ride in this morning . less traffic on the road for some strange reason. oh and i discovered strava on the work issue iphone. not going to be anywhere near the leaderboard on the London bridge segment
OP
OP
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Snow!!! The roads were fairly clear, the odd bit at the edge to be avoided but motorists seemed happy to give me space. The only hassle I saw was a minicab tried to undertake a van on the tight corner on the entrance to the Catford one way system and then had the cheek to beep the van!!
Worst bit of the snow was my glasses steamed up so I took them off about 3 miles from work. My eyes are now killing me where snow flakes kept flying into them!!
Worst bit of the snow was my glasses steamed up so I took them off about 3 miles from work. My eyes are now killing me where snow flakes kept flying into them!!
Wow, vile weather this morning.
It was snowing, lot's of slush on the ground. It had settled a bit but the main roads were ok. Bit of slush and very wet.
The temp gauge was reading zero degrees when I left. But with the snow/sleet coming down and the wind chill it felt much, much lower. As I was taking it easy my core body temperature didn't warm up too well so was cold all the way in to work.
Did see another cycling in shorts this morning.
Not bib shorts, but normal short shorts. Nutter.
It was snowing, lot's of slush on the ground. It had settled a bit but the main roads were ok. Bit of slush and very wet.
The temp gauge was reading zero degrees when I left. But with the snow/sleet coming down and the wind chill it felt much, much lower. As I was taking it easy my core body temperature didn't warm up too well so was cold all the way in to work.
Did see another cycling in shorts this morning.
Not bib shorts, but normal short shorts. Nutter.
Andrew_P
In between here and there
Left home and my road and huge test puddle on corner as I turn out of road were all wet and not icy, phew should be ok. Got to the top of the hill at the A23/M23 to be faced with single track and snowed out cycle path. Having never cycled on snow I just unclipped and coasted down with my foot down, it was fine on the 23mm Gators. The bad move was keeping my footdown took me 5 mins clearing the compacted ice so I could clip in!
Apart from that just stayed in the tyre tracks to avoid the slushy kerb stuff, the inevitable was pissing off the oh so important motons, oh well..
Apart from that just stayed in the tyre tracks to avoid the slushy kerb stuff, the inevitable was pissing off the oh so important motons, oh well..
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I think my toes froze and fell off somewhere near Charlton. They were freezing from all the slush splashing up onto my shoes.
One of the reasons I bought a pair of Specialized Defroster boots.
They do keep your tootsies warm
BIG thumbs-up to the driver of the sightseeing bus that hung back on the narrow section of road by Wandsworth Road station and only overtook where the road widens to 2 lanes a few hundred metres further along. Many a driver doesn't extend cyclists such courtesy.
Hideous weather, I hope I don't regret not taking my ice bike come this evening but I wanted to try out my new Supernova rear light on the normal commuting machine...
Hideous weather, I hope I don't regret not taking my ice bike come this evening but I wanted to try out my new Supernova rear light on the normal commuting machine...
Bloke on trike near cambridge regional college, I said "nice!" and thumbs up as I passed him, he must have been well away in his own world as he looked at me like I was a quadriplegic Swiss man on a pony.
Hopefully he understood that I was paying him a compliment and not abusing him.
Hopefully he understood that I was paying him a compliment and not abusing him.
Steve Saunders
Active Member
- Location
- Dundee, Scotland
Almost good left-hooked on the commute home on friday. Was cycling along a half-mile section of unlit road and there were loads of cars heading towards me, and I was aware of a couple of cars behind me. It looked as though they were waiting till it was clear to overtake. I was doing about 20mph (helped a little by the wind) so I wasn't exactly going slow. Then the car immediately behind decides they'd had enough waiting and decided to squeeze between me and the centre-line ... they did this at what seemed about 21mph as they were just crawling past me. Had to bunny-hop a couple of potholes as there was no room to go round because of the car. As if that wasn't bad enough ... before they had completed the overtake I noticed their left indicator switch on, WTF! There was a junction about 50 yards up ahead, and I though surely they're not going down there, but just in case I braked a little ... and it's just as well as they just pulled straight across in front of me !!
Felt like going and having a few choice words with the driver, but decided against it when I noticed it was an elderly lady on her own.
Felt like going and having a few choice words with the driver, but decided against it when I noticed it was an elderly lady on her own.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Got slipstreamed this morning....
...by a moped rider
...by a moped rider
