This ^ its pretty murky and grey out there
Tales from today's commute....
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This ^ its pretty murky and grey out there
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Well that was cold wet and horrible
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
An excellent summary!
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
My bike with guards is in the shop. New BB, headset and possibly rear derailleur required, things I would have looked forward to doing myself before chemo. Anyways, it meant I was on the gravel bike and rather than rigging up the Varia to get muddy I used some cheaper LEDs instead. Realised how much I missed it at a set of lights that sweep right in the junction and the lights change fast. Drivers wisely hold back two seconds, constrained by the large traffic island. Just as I began to lean right a tyre squeezed through that non existent gap, how 🫨 and I stopped leaning. A millisecond later a moped with a large delivery box came through. If I hadn't stopped leaning I would have hit my bars off that box. 🤬 Had I known he was there (alerted by the Varia) I wouldn't have leaned right and let him trigger the amber extension.
Lol, when I got to the town bridge lights that went amber just as I was climbing over the stop line, they turned to red as I reached the middle and safety just. A couple of seconds later driver came through and a couple of seconds later another. They certainly never had an amber, they must have been driving those new 4x4/SUV bicycles 😉
Lol, when I got to the town bridge lights that went amber just as I was climbing over the stop line, they turned to red as I reached the middle and safety just. A couple of seconds later driver came through and a couple of seconds later another. They certainly never had an amber, they must have been driving those new 4x4/SUV bicycles 😉
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
- Location
- Bristol
Well, last nights commute home. Just left the office, was getting into the segregated cycle lane on Clarence road Bristol when about here where the van is, there was a bloke in a big van who - for some unknown reason - had driven into the cycle lane and was trying to back out of it into rush hour traffic at an angle but got himself 'wedged' with his rear wheel bumping over the kerbs...
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Damp commute this morning. Hopefully the weather will improve tomorrow.
Damp and chilly, but the only nobber was a pedestrian, not in a vehicle. Clearly a headphone zombie veering all over the segregated cycle path (not a shared one officially, but most pedestrians use it).
You can see here what a stupid piece of design it is. I imagine pedestrians are intended to use the pavement on the left, but quite obviously they're going to use the cycle lane. It's doubly daft as it's completely unnecessary as that road was very quiet.
Lots of young kids walking to school with parents around here at this time means I slow down and use the bell a lot and usually things work out. Today there was one group walking in line abreast across the whole width. Clearly Mr Nobber thought the kids were walking too slow so veers over to the right, right in front of me. I'm ringing the bell like a madman, but he must have had headphones on under the hood. I call out "completely bloody oblivious" and this clearly triggers the zombie as he starts screaming something unintelligible at the top of his voice.
I might have called him a W⚓ as I rode off. Not proud of my language with young kids around but the guy was such an unbelievable tosser it just came out. I'm now thinking he was on some kind of recreational pharmaceuticals.
You can see here what a stupid piece of design it is. I imagine pedestrians are intended to use the pavement on the left, but quite obviously they're going to use the cycle lane. It's doubly daft as it's completely unnecessary as that road was very quiet.
Lots of young kids walking to school with parents around here at this time means I slow down and use the bell a lot and usually things work out. Today there was one group walking in line abreast across the whole width. Clearly Mr Nobber thought the kids were walking too slow so veers over to the right, right in front of me. I'm ringing the bell like a madman, but he must have had headphones on under the hood. I call out "completely bloody oblivious" and this clearly triggers the zombie as he starts screaming something unintelligible at the top of his voice.
I might have called him a W⚓ as I rode off. Not proud of my language with young kids around but the guy was such an unbelievable tosser it just came out. I'm now thinking he was on some kind of recreational pharmaceuticals.
Dark, wet and cold for last nights commute. Made for a pretty grim ride.
Rainy commute #6 for the year
Same period last year 4 rainy commutes.
The rain buggered off last night and no more rain is predicted for the rest of the week. Just cold.
Had a nice bit of SCR this morning with a trainer clad road bike rider. I don't think he was to happy being overtaken by a folding bicycle. So he put some effort in to re-overtake me. That was fine with me, I just sat on his wheel for a mile and a bit whilst he was putting in max effort just to keep ahead, doing those looks behind to see if I was still there. I was
Burned him off at the next set of lights then turned off.
Jolly good fun and a nice little work out.
Rainy commute #6 for the year
Same period last year 4 rainy commutes.
The rain buggered off last night and no more rain is predicted for the rest of the week. Just cold.
Had a nice bit of SCR this morning with a trainer clad road bike rider. I don't think he was to happy being overtaken by a folding bicycle. So he put some effort in to re-overtake me. That was fine with me, I just sat on his wheel for a mile and a bit whilst he was putting in max effort just to keep ahead, doing those looks behind to see if I was still there. I was
Burned him off at the next set of lights then turned off. Jolly good fun and a nice little work out.
Cold, overcast but mercifully dry this morning; the latest prolific saddle sore kept in check by a piece of masking tape stuck to my arse before departure...
Ride was unremarkable aside from the utterly horrendous traffic into / inside the city - with every inbound route rammed with static vehicles as I moseyed smugly down the middle of the deserted opposite carriageway..
Ride was unremarkable aside from the utterly horrendous traffic into / inside the city - with every inbound route rammed with static vehicles as I moseyed smugly down the middle of the deserted opposite carriageway..
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Yes the queues are definitely back to pre-pandemic levels now.
"Return to the office you plebs, you must be good little robots sat at your serried ranks of desks where our managers can keep an eye on you! Our managers are useless and they can't understand how to get the output from you if you're not in line of sight! We must get the use of our vast investment in overpriced city centre office property! You must keep all the franchised Starbucks and Pret outlets going to supply the drones with overpriced coffee and food. Our execs are stupid so they believe the handwavy nonsense about "collaboration" being the only way to productivity and can't realise that office distractions can have the opposite effect."
And... breathe!
"Return to the office you plebs, you must be good little robots sat at your serried ranks of desks where our managers can keep an eye on you! Our managers are useless and they can't understand how to get the output from you if you're not in line of sight! We must get the use of our vast investment in overpriced city centre office property! You must keep all the franchised Starbucks and Pret outlets going to supply the drones with overpriced coffee and food. Our execs are stupid so they believe the handwavy nonsense about "collaboration" being the only way to productivity and can't realise that office distractions can have the opposite effect."
And... breathe!
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Oh, and after all the hand wringing about how "lack of contact causes stress" they can't grasp the concept that for introverts the opposite is true...
Can't grasp... or conveniently forget
While contact with business-speak-bellend management types is stressful for all concerned apart from their own worthless number...
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
An unusually high number of dangerous drivers today. Van pass was especially scary.
Avon and Somerset are stopping releasing details of whether the positive outcome of reporting is a warning letter or a notice of intended prosecution.
So we're expected to trust that they're taking appropriate action, and nobody can keep an eye on whether they're dealing with drivers with more lenience in the future.
Avon and Somerset are stopping releasing details of whether the positive outcome of reporting is a warning letter or a notice of intended prosecution.
So we're expected to trust that they're taking appropriate action, and nobody can keep an eye on whether they're dealing with drivers with more lenience in the future.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Someone stuck a late meeting in my diary and of course it never stuck to schedule so by the time I got to Stevenage Station it was full of folk coming from London. Amazingly I got to the platform just as a Peterborough train was getting announced. I could have done with being 30s earlier though in the rush it was impossible to get to the bike compartment. So I jumped in a disabled carriage. That was getting used but at least when they got off they'd make a gap for the bike. I spent most of the journey standing up holding it. One lady was sat in the seat it could have rolled into if I had left it unguarded. For some reason she didn't move, hey ho! What was more annoying was the person managing to take up the three seats opposite 🙄
At the far end being on a slower bike I decided not to battle with traffic in town and took the easy left out of it on one of Pottyboro's many dual carriageways. I forgot though it leads to a roundabout that I needed to be in the right lane to go straight and it's one dominated by traffic coming on or off the Parkway (yet another dual carriageway and close to a urban motorway) so I took the easy left for a few hundred metres before crossing at a toucan. Pottyboro's lights are very car dominated and I had to wait for traffic to clear.
Further down the line I got a left hook by a twerp going into their driveway. I know where you live 🙄 The driver behind must have saw it and was a lot more courteous waiting behind until it was 100% clear.
At the far end being on a slower bike I decided not to battle with traffic in town and took the easy left out of it on one of Pottyboro's many dual carriageways. I forgot though it leads to a roundabout that I needed to be in the right lane to go straight and it's one dominated by traffic coming on or off the Parkway (yet another dual carriageway and close to a urban motorway) so I took the easy left for a few hundred metres before crossing at a toucan. Pottyboro's lights are very car dominated and I had to wait for traffic to clear.
Further down the line I got a left hook by a twerp going into their driveway. I know where you live 🙄 The driver behind must have saw it and was a lot more courteous waiting behind until it was 100% clear.
