GeekDadZoid
Über Member
Unfortunately your experience is exactly the reason I don't use the Loop after a slightly less dramatic but similar attempt.
Hope your feeling OK about it this morning.
Tales from today's commute....
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Unfortunately your experience is exactly the reason I don't use the Loop after a slightly less dramatic but similar attempt.
Hope your feeling OK about it this morning.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Not too bad, used the Floop from Reddish to Fallowfield this morning, then diverted down Wilbraham Road, which seems acceptable - wide with a cycle lane. Will probably now use it on the way home up to the A6 where I normally get on after the loop.
Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
Ah well, nowt's changed. 4th day into my return to cycling to work, and here we go, "where's your hi-vis?", "where's your helmet?"
I should have retorted "where's your pink tutu?"
I should have retorted "where's your pink tutu?"
biking_fox
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
Didn't use the Loop today - unrelated - it was looking nice so I took the SS for a spin. Think the rear is a little soft because it felt heavy. Odd how much such a slight difference can make.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Remarkable how people feel it's acceptable to make comments like this.
Muggy weather this morning. Warm weather is dragging our here in the SE.
Quite a nice commute this morning, traffic not so busy for some reason and they behaved nicely for a change. A nice bit of SCR too which made for a very pleasant ride in.
Quite a nice commute this morning, traffic not so busy for some reason and they behaved nicely for a change. A nice bit of SCR too which made for a very pleasant ride in.
Overcast and windy this morning for an unusual Thursday ride in; really feeling the cumulative toll of the growing sleep deficit and sliding back towards the previous week's manflu I thought I'd conquored in record time.
Still a pleasant ride though, after a groggy start found myself enjoying it after a while with a bit of a smile which was reciprocated by an unprecidented number of ladies on the way in - I think they must like my (admittedly flattering) zippy DHB base-layer as much as I do (and perhaps the fact I managed a shave recently).
Still a pleasant ride though, after a groggy start found myself enjoying it after a while with a bit of a smile which was reciprocated by an unprecidented number of ladies on the way in - I think they must like my (admittedly flattering) zippy DHB base-layer as much as I do (and perhaps the fact I managed a shave recently).
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
I often read this thread, it’s an interesting and fascinating insight into folks routines.
I take a particular interest in your journey because it’s often detailed and the photos are usually good.
I ask, merely out of curiosity, would it be practical to ride your entire journey and not use the car at all? I don’t know how long your journey is.
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Thanks - some might say painfully detailed
I've done Oxford-home various times in the past and did the pseudo-full commute on the tourer on a day off last month, however realistically it's too much to do regularly.
The current setup means up at 7, 13 miles in the car then 8 on the bike for ballpark 1:15hrs travel time. If I did the whole journey on the bike it'd be 25 miles / over two hours so maybe a 6 O'clock start. While my fitness has improved and I'm keen to save more money on fuel the current setup has me near-destroyed by the end of the working week; so tripling the mileage / time on the bike would be ruinous..
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Thanks - some might say painfully detailed
I've done Oxford-home various times in the past and did the pseudo-full commute on the tourer on a day off last month, however realistically it's too much to do regularly.
The current setup means up at 7, 13 miles in the car then 8 on the bike for ballpark 1:15hrs travel time. If I did the whole journey on the bike it'd be 25 miles / over two hours so maybe a 6 O'clock start. While my fitness has improved and I'm keen to save more money on fuel the current setup has me near-destroyed by the end of the working week; so tripling the mileage / time on the bike would be ruinous..
Yes, I see that’s a bit much.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
It makes me quite irate. Had a couple of Germans do it to us on the tandem recently.
I mean. really? You've just passed a couple of people on a cycle track on a fully laden tandem and the only communication you want to have with them is to berate them about their headgear? WTAF??
After long consideration I've decided the best response is "Just fark off" and a middle finger.
Yup... sort of told myself I'd maybe give it a go on one occasion in the middle of summer when conditions were ideal, but never really got round to it.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. I've had Germans attempt to lecture me on this, too, on one occasion while riding with their arms folded.
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
Similar happens to me in NL, particularly in rural areas, and not about helmets, but about anything else.
Too fast, too slow, too slow away from the lights, wrong kind of bike, being a bloody buitenlander. Never with any real anger or hostility, just grumbling.
Mostly i forget I speak Dutch. Sometimes I reply in Dutch when I think it will confuse them.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
No scallywags tonight, stuck to the road that runs parallel to the Floop. Not as picturesque !
