A comfortable commute today with the new heated gloves (
https://www.ekoi.com/en-gb/autumnwinter-gloves/14676-heated-gloves-ekoi-heat-concept.html) and Lezyne lights (
https://ride.lezyne.com/products/mi...yYBfblLXB40xCFXTGjf8vBwJPf9v-lmNI96neTF-1N5ZP)
The sky was impressive for train part just before dawn, although my camera doesn't do it justice.
The lights were certainly catching drivers eyes, even after dawn. I had one driver patiently wait for me to finish up cycling up a steep hill on their side of the road. There's always a lot of badly parked cars in Letchworth GC (actually in the whole of North Herts/ Bedfordshire), including a massive transit like van on this road (
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XZZEv7V4EMrJf9da6 ), which narrows the road down to one lane. I had been half up the hill blocked by the van, and she must have pulled out of a side road but she was there waiting when I passed the van
I didn't need to charge the gloves or back lights when I got to office but I have a growing list.
This evening was pretty un-notable. It was pretty fast until I got to Arlesey, then it was a total standstill and the only thing moving was a bike, although I did have to scoot on the footway twice round the jam and parked cars. Towards the far end of Arlesey I saw what the problem was. In addition to the bad parking which always makes it slow (narrowing it down to one lane) there was two large coaches outside the school/community centre. On hindsight when I scooted I should have switched the lights of as I don't think a couple of pedestrian were impressed by them as I was
The only other thing that happened was the train part of the commute this evening was extremely bumpy and actually managed eventually to shake the bike out of the bike rack. I place the drop bar behind the fold up seat which in addition to the straps usually prevents that. This was the first time in circa 4 years its happened. I was glad the train carriage was empty,
) and I had no front brake. Whoops. Quick stop to fit it properly and I was off.
