Tales from today's commute....

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Supersuperleeds

Legendary Member
Location
Leicester
10 miles in, it starts to rain, gets very dark and all the fields are flooded. Decided to cut the route short and luckily I did for two reasons.

1) The route I would have taken was completely blocked due to flooding.
2) The route I took produced a KOM
 
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martint235

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
Another day not on the bike, here's hoping for tomorrow!
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
raining on the way in - sopping wet. but i like the drying room heaters we have

ride home was fun. 3 of us and talking at lights !! have i been abducted by aliens and placed in a parallel universe. sadly no as 12 minutes later a cockwombler in a 4x4 ML 320 decides he doesn't need mirrors or signals . close shave and nearly off.
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
Location
Rides Ti2
Nice ride home tonight apart from a couple of near misses incidents.
Dimwit 1: A driver pull out of a turning from the right into a 2 lane road and then moved into my lane without indicating.
Dimwit 2: A cyclist who decided to swerve right for no reason when I was overtaking him. I was doing about 20 mph at the time.

Apart from that it was much better ride home then last nights effort

14.53 mi in 00:56:56 hours at 15.31 mi/h
 

Hip Priest

Veteran
Had a right-hook off a taxi, and a hot hatch move into my lane while I was already in it. Managed to anticipate both and avoid a collision. The taxi one did make me wish I had a camera, because he saw me coming but pulled across anyway.
 

400bhp

Guru
Morning run in was nice and quick, had a go at 2 segments. On the first one it felt like I was pedalling squares. Managed to get KoM on #2 though.

Had some bellend pull out on a roundabout then drive alongside me (on my left) on cross-hatchings. I shouted oi twice. He then mocked me by repeating it. I then just asked him what he was doing, look in future etc (making sure he couldn't get a word in edgeways) and repeated everything I said twice. Soz, but don't come a sarky daffodil with a manc.:whistle:
 

400bhp

Guru
I rode home in the light with no coat on. What's going on?!

You are lying?
 
Well that was different, if you didn't see my other thread in summary my freewheel became fixed at lunchtime :rolleyes: I went to take my shortest route and walk through the Bourges Boulevard underpass rather than the roundabout, it was closed by the Police as was the road itself :excl: I thought about the next rbt up but didnt fancy its tight bends so kept on going on straight roads and let more traffic pass and head for the next Rbt which has an OK underpass. The roads suddenly went quiet though so I headed past it to get ore used to fix and eventually doubled back to it (the next Rbt only serves access to a big toy superstore ;)). I had to give way a few times but going slow I managed to do so. When I did finally meet a rbt something was coming so giving way again that was interesting it suddenly got busy again stopped OK but pulled into the kerb just in case, it was too fast and busy to lift the rear wheel to get my foot to the right position to push off so getting going :ohmy: It was the same story at the next rbt complicated by a short sharp descent to the entry. It was slow but I made it. I might go out after tea to familiarise myself some more with fix before tomorrow rush hour.
 

RedRider

Pulling through
Fun ride in today via Brixton were my bestest friend was organising a One Billion Rising event then away through Burgess Park, takin it slowly against the flow of a kids' cross country race.
 
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martint235

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
It's official. Wearing longs slows me down. Back to shorts today seeing as spring seems to have arrived (dawn chorus and everything) and rewarded with a 16mph.

I also seem to have a new playmate on my commute. It's a shame he's an RLJer but then again it gives me something to chase. And if there's nothing wrong with RLJing, why do RLJers get so upset if you slow down next to them and ask why they don't just pedal faster rather than jump the light? :rolleyes: The language I received, well in between gasps for breath anyway
 
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