Tales from today's commute....

[captain nemo1701]

Turning left at the end of my road down to the B2B Railway Path today, two teen girls on a private escooter turning right into the road, car sound coming from right. 'Turn now...turn!' exclaims the rear passenger to the one in control, now executing a somewhat wobbly right turn. Car driver clocks it and slows down. Gotta love escooters...allowing those with little or no experience of how they work and no real roadcraft out onto roads at 8am....

 

[biking_fox]

Grim again - my least favourite combination. Cold and wet. I suppose at least the morning's aren't yet so dark, and it wasn't sleeting.

 

[fossyant]

Grim again - my least favourite combination. Cold and wet. I suppose at least the morning's aren't yet so dark, and it wasn't sleeting.

On foot today - stayed over in Manchester. Grim out. Looking at the forecast not so sure if I should switch over to ice tyres - looking close to freezing tonight. That said, I may not be on the bike tomorrow - my knee is still very sore and I've been walking on it too much this weekend (around Liverpool and Manchester).

 

[ianrauk]

Dark, cold and wet this morning. But have had worse. The rain stopped soon after I left home. But stayed grim for all of the ride in. Lots of standing water as it had rained all night. Hopefully a dry ride home.

Bought a new pair of waterproof gloves recently and they worked well. Nice a and toasty fingers.

Rainy commute #47 for the year
Same period last year 40 rainy commutes.

 

[Arjimlad]

Quite nice weather this morning but oh dear!

Three close passes and an illegal number plate to report. The last close pass was from the driver of a large Audi estate within touching distance.

Bearing in mind the driver had been sat behind me at the lights, with ample time to clock the camera sign on my gilet, this was exceptionally stupid.

 

[cyberknight]

absolutely peeing it down all day
still full of cold so im going in the car today as i think last weeks commuting has prolonged my cold

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Cold. Wet. Dark.


Still better than driving.

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Drenched this morning but definitely a bonus when your work has furnaces to dry your gear!

Dry commute back from work the river levels have shot up from the downpour, another night of rain and the tpt past Manvers might be flooded again.

 

[skudupnorth]

Same extended commute as the other night through Worsley woods and along the Bridgewater canal

 

[Andy in Germany]

Drenched this morning but definitely a bonus when your work has furnaces to dry your gear!
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Dry commute back from work the river levels have shot up from the downpour, another night of rain and the tpt past Manvers might be flooded again.
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Wow, and you ride in this weather with no mudguards? You sirrah, live dangerously.

 

[cyberknight]

absolutely peeing it down all day
still full of cold so im going in the car today as i think last weeks commuting has prolonged my cold

Roads flooded again ,the fields are that soaked they never get to dry out and the run off floods the roads every time it rains now

 

[Thorn Sherpa]

Wow, and you ride in this weather with no mudguards? You sirrah, live dangerously.

Yes I keep saying year after year I'm getting some but never do 😂

 

[tinywheels]

cycle lane knee deep in leaves!
Brompton slipping around, tyres not made for this.
Warming up at work now.
Happy days.

 

[Andy in Germany]

River is rising again.

It went down a bit first fortunately, leaving a lot of fairly substantial logs on the riverbank.

 

[fossyant]

Decided this week was looking a bit cold, so popped the ice 'wheels' on last night. Slight adjustment to two canti-pad positions as the Snow Studs are a bit wider than the slicks. Shifting spot on due to the 'assorted spacers' I purchased to perfect the cassette indexing between the different wheels.

Out with the thermal gear though, and commute was just a couple of minutes slower than usual.