Tales from today's commute....

[Jefferson Meriwether]

As I was pushing my bike up Fernhill the town bus went past on it's way to do the school run. The driver stopped and gave me a free lift to the end of my road. I like the bus drivers round here; they're pretty decent people.

Apart from that it was a bog standard commute today.

 

[Glow worm]

Happened a couple weeks ago but lesson learned about choosing the bike to fit the conditions.

Blimey - that's the last time I moan about the cold hereabouts!

Nice ride in with strong tailwind. Managed it in 36 minutes (9.8 miles) which is practically supersonic for a sloth like me! Just the one tosser - a taxi driver in Cambridge deciding I didn't exist as he turned right from a side road right into my path almost taking me out.

Wore far too many layers as had been working in a cold house all morning and set off freezing - was boiled alive by the time I made it to work. Shouting at idiot lardy Cambridge taxi morons helps warm you up though I guess!

 

[ianrauk]

I wonder if the fixie rider who rlj'ed past me on the A21 was happy that I blasted past him at a rate of knots up Bromley Hill? Methinks not.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Wet! Glorious, glorious wet! It's been very dry in Melbourne this Summer, almost like a mini-drought, with well below average rainfall, but yesterday at about 8:15pm it poured heavily for over 30 minutes, dropping about 20mm, and rained on me during my commute to work just now. I enjoyed every minute of it .

 

[Supersuperleeds]

[QUOTE 2333596, member: 1314"]I did that game today which Origamist and Gaz used to do. Count how many cyclists they could overtake in 10 seconds or something.

The thing was to "cheat" by joining the outside of a commuting peloton stopped at reds, but not stopping, rolling slightly, predicting the lights and then blasting past a whole crowd of them. I think the record is 20 odd cyclists overtaken.

I managed 15 today inbetween Kennington and Stockwell. Except quite a lot of them - about 7 - got the umbrage and then shot past me a few seconds later at top speed. The rotters.[/quote]

Tow path cricket is another one you can play - or a variation of.

You get 4 runs for every cyclist you over take, 1 run for every dog you overtake, 1 for every pedestrian you overtake and 6 for a car. (original game is a 6 for going passed a moving boat - hence tow path cricket)

You are out when you get overtaken by a cyclist. You only get one innings.

 

[MisterStan]

Cold with a headwind.

 

[avsd]

Bright and sunny commute home. Gentle tail wind and 6 degrees Celsius. A great day to be cycling

 

[Black Country Ste]

Out in the van this afternoon, driving up Lee Bank Middleway. It's a dual carriageway, three lanes each way and there was a cyclist (probably commuting; on topic... ha ) hugging the kerb. Neither I or the car in front had any problem changing lanes to pass him properly. I was watching in my door mirror the BMW following me; he didn't even change course and gave the poor bloke about a foot of space at 35-40mph.

That's bad enough on its own but the cyclist was dangerously close to the kerb. A gust of wind and he's over the bars, or his pedal catches and he goes FSM-knows-where. The Brain Made of Wensleydale driver turned off behind me at the lights, which was a shame as I was ready to give the bastard a piece of my mind.

 

[HLaB]

A pretty uneventful ride home for me tonight

 

[ianrauk]

A pretty uneventful ride home for me tonight

Sometimes that is a very good thing

 

[wiggydiggy]

Changing tyres at home after todays commute and when inflating the tube again I managed to make it blow up! Made me jump lol

 

[boybiker]

why o why do idiots in diesel cars decide to go past you and deliberately drop a gear leaving you in a big black cloud of fumes ,

 

[Hip Priest]

why o why do idiots in diesel cars decide to go past you and deliberately drop a gear leaving you in a big black cloud of fumes ,

I used to know a bloke who boasted of doing this to cyclists. In his case, the reason was that he was a massive flute.

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

On my commute home tonight I must have inadvertantly put my cloak of invisibility on instead of my glow in the dark, orange jacket. I collided with a pedestrian that walked out from the front of a bus into my path, I hit her and just managed to stay upright by glancing off a car. The guy in the car was not impressed but was ok when I explained the situation. Then about 2 miles away from there, a woman pushing a pram just casually walks in the road into my path, luckily I missed her this time.

 

[potsy]

I got told to eff-off by an old bloke stood on the pavement on the way in tonight.
I gave him a and he shouted 'put your helmet on'

You do see some strange folk during the hours of darkness