Tales from today's commute....

[HLaB]

The ride home today was joyous. The schools are off, so the roads are traffic free, and this seems to have a positive effect on the mood of the average motorist, because I got nothing but patient, wide overtakes.

Unfortunately that was last week here; the roads were back to the normal congestion, fortunately it wasn't the normal chaos

 

[Black Country Ste]

It's half term so there was naff all on the A435 when I left for work. Had a lorry follow patiently until my turn off and got a toot in reply to my thumbs up. Went to the parents for tea after work so it was a rush hour trip down the Hagley Road. Motorists were good as gold. Not so much on the way home.

Nice to clock up another 13 miles-plus rather than the usual less than 3.5mi round trip.

 

[Keith Oates]

Knocked off again. Bike OK. Enthusiasm sorely dented. White Van coming out of side turning, looks right, sees me, looks left, clear, looks right, sees me. Goes.

Fundamentally bored of this now.

Bad luck Andy, Hope you, the bike and more importantly the enthusiasm are all back to normal soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[subaqua]

Foggy and frosty. nice ride in though. even with an achy face from blocked eustachian/sinus

 

[GlasgowGaryH]

Chilly -5c on Garmin

 

[potsy]

Slightly overestimated the return of the higher temperatures this morning, wore the summer jacket which was mistake as it is 0c

 

[Phil485]

Cold, just cold!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

A drastic change in temperature for my commute home today. Yesterday, it was a sizzling 35°C on my 21 mile commute home, and today it was 18°C. Melbourne has these cool changes a lot, because all it takes is for the wind to turn from northerly to southerly and blow straight up from Port Philip Bay, and the drop in temperature is remarkable .

 

[Andrew_Culture]

A quite cold but windless commute through riverbanks painted with heavy frost.

I smiled to myself; I'm going to miss the winter now that spring is peeking around the corner at us.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Damn cold
frost on the brake cables!

 

[MisterStan]

-4 degrees and freezing fog. Frost all over my gloves, front and arms. Glad to report that my Northwave boots are still keeping my toes warm!

 

[BSRU]

Strangely when I arrived back in Swindon after my loop into the countryside it was very foggy where an hour earlier it was clear.
Then that fog only last a couple of miles before disappearing and resulting in a very sunny end to the ride.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

-4 degrees and freezing fog. Frost all over my gloves, front and arms. Glad to report that my Northwave boots are still keeping my toes warm!

Good to hear, I'm planning on fetching some for next winter. I've had enough of all this gaffa tape over the vents waterproof socks crap.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Ice tyres back on the bike, set off late so cut the mileage to 20 miles. Very cold, canal frozen, pond in the park frozen. Also had some really dense fog but was only over one roundabout, really strange. Was very cold but it was light!

 

[Nocode]

Knocked off again. Bike OK. Enthusiasm sorely dented. White Van coming out of side turning, looks right, sees me, looks left, clear, looks right, sees me. Goes.

Fundamentally bored of this now.

Hope you're ok chap and you're enthusiasm picks-up again soon. Where did it happen and did the van stop?