Tales from today's commute....
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arallsopp
Post of The Year 2009 winner
- Location
- Bromley, Kent
Slower than yesterday, but a good ride home. Got a little cat6 action from a penge cc wheelman. I'd be amazed if he wasn't cat 3, tbh. He was absolutely flying.
...he turned off before I got into the big ring, but I think he probably had me.
...he turned off before I got into the big ring, but I think he probably had me.
Christopher
Über Member
Odd commute in this am: It wasn't windy. It wasn't raining, or snowing, or haling or sleeting. It was warm, sunny, traffic was light and considerate and the council had cleaned the broken glass from the cyclepath.
I was frightened.
I was frightened.
PJ79LIZARD
Über Member
- Location
- WEST MIDLANDS
Warm sunshine made for a lovely commute in this morning 
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
First five miles hitting 17mph average (normally just under 15mph), hit 31.5mph on a downhill bit, this is the life. Then I turned into the wind! Not as bad as the last few days, but it is more Northerly now, so feels colder. When out of the wind it was lovely.
Any ways, finished the Strava challenge so I might have a short ride home tonight and a beer or two.
Any ways, finished the Strava challenge so I might have a short ride home tonight and a beer or two.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Not much to note except I stumbled across a poor soul struggling (instantly saw this from his body language) with a tyre (M+) between the A603/M11 roundabouts. The conversation went like this:
Me: Hi there, you seem to be struggling shall I give you a hand?
(note phrasing, if I asked 'do you need help?' the answer would almost always be no)
Them: If you wouldn't mind.
Me: Okay let's have a look
Them: I just can't get the tyre back on.
Me: right then. Anyway....
cue about 90s worth of random discussion about commuting as I quickly but methodically work the tyre onto the rim
...tyres can be a pain, but this isn't too bad. Done.
Him: What?! How?! *looks at the now seated tyre* Thanks!
Me: Take care now
Me: Hi there, you seem to be struggling shall I give you a hand?
(note phrasing, if I asked 'do you need help?' the answer would almost always be no)
Them: If you wouldn't mind.
Me: Okay let's have a look
Them: I just can't get the tyre back on.
Me: right then. Anyway....
cue about 90s worth of random discussion about commuting as I quickly but methodically work the tyre onto the rim
...tyres can be a pain, but this isn't too bad. Done.
Him: What?! How?! *looks at the now seated tyre* Thanks!
Me: Take care now
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
Lovely 11 mile ride in today. I drove yesterday & changed my shirts over in the office.
Stupidly forgot to bring cufflinks in today but knotted treasury tags are doing a fine job, and look quite snazzy from a distance..
Stupidly forgot to bring cufflinks in today but knotted treasury tags are doing a fine job, and look quite snazzy from a distance..
Don't think it is a good idea drinking while riding, I mean how are you going to hold your phone and fag
Leodis
Veteran
- Location
- Moortown, Leeds
Very wet this morning into work, some idiot drivers about. I don't think I saw one cyclist.
Frood42
I know where my towel is
- Location
- Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
Hi All.
Long time reader (113/265 pages so far on this thread
), but first post on the forum.
Recently stopped communting from South Woodford to Holborn, and I now commute South Woodford to Ilford via Buckhurst Hill (and odd days via Loughton), doing 20 to 26 miles a day, 5 days a week. Despite some of the more interesting up hill parts
I am still really enjoying my commute to work, and I don't miss the CS2 
at all.
First I wanted to say "Morning" to the roadie who cycled past me (Roding Lane - Blue top) like he was on a leisurely sunday ride, sorry I couldn't return the favour, was getting my breath back, I had gotten a bit carried away on the downhill (gps said 27 to 30 mph - not bad for me) section and then hit the uphill and it was a little harder going 
.
Lovely commute today despite the wind, and nearly all drivers were very patient and gave me plently of room.
There was one blemish to the morning commute, the first ever person to hoot there horn at me since I started cycling in January! It was an old woman who said I should be sitting on the left of the road, despite the fact I had taken the primary to go past a parked car - avoiding the door zone, and was then going right at the roundabout (where she was going left) about 2 seconds after the parked car (see the Peugeot on the googles map link).
http://goo.gl/maps/fq6bo
Why would I stay left at that roundabout and not take at least primary when I am going right? Makes no sense to me
/rant
Long time reader (113/265 pages so far on this thread
), but first post on the forum.Recently stopped communting from South Woodford to Holborn, and I now commute South Woodford to Ilford via Buckhurst Hill (and odd days via Loughton), doing 20 to 26 miles a day, 5 days a week. Despite some of the more interesting up hill parts
I am still really enjoying my commute to work, and I don't miss the CS2 at all.First I wanted to say "Morning" to the roadie who cycled past me (Roding Lane - Blue top) like he was on a leisurely sunday ride, sorry I couldn't return the favour, was getting my breath back, I had gotten a bit carried away on the downhill (gps said 27 to 30 mph
- not bad for me) section and then hit the uphill and it was a little harder going .Lovely commute today despite the wind, and nearly all drivers were very patient and gave me plently of room.
There was one blemish to the morning commute, the first ever person to hoot there horn at me since I started cycling in January! It was an old woman who said I should be sitting on the left of the road, despite the fact I had taken the primary to go past a parked car - avoiding the door zone, and was then going right at the roundabout (where she was going left) about 2 seconds after the parked car (see the Peugeot on the googles map link).
http://goo.gl/maps/fq6bo
Why would I stay left at that roundabout and not take at least primary when I am going right? Makes no sense to me
/rant
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Heading downhill around 28mph this morning towards a junction where cars were already turning right across me, the fabric rim of my black wooly bunnet blew down over my eyes. SHIIIIITT!......
GC
GC
Revelation this week:
My commute yesterday, the bus immediately in front had to swerve to avoid a man pulling a handcart piled 10ft high with bags off rubbish the wrong way up the outside lane of a 3 lane motorway. This almost took out a man on a motorbike (wearing only shorts and t shirt) who had to squirt the throttle to get in front of the bus, he actually knocked his number plate off on the front bumper of the bus. Moments later the bus decided it wanted to turn off and moved across all three lanes with no warning, pushing a lorry onto the hard shoulder.
No-one batted an eyelid, no-one beeped, no shouting, no international hand signals. Just a perfectly normal day in Sao Paulo. The road users who we complain about in the UK should take some lessons off these guys. What an experience, I've certainly gained a bit of perspective and in the taxi back home from Heathrow this morning I laughed at how "good" the "bad" driving was on the M25. I almost cried with laughter thinking of someone from BRAKE spending 5 minutes on Brazil's roads, their heads would explode (and my more-travelled colleagues tell me Brazil is pretty good compared to other places, Indonesia in particular).
Roads in the UK are made out of cotton wool, lightly moistened with babies' tears compared to the rest of the world, enjoy it!
My commute yesterday, the bus immediately in front had to swerve to avoid a man pulling a handcart piled 10ft high with bags off rubbish the wrong way up the outside lane of a 3 lane motorway. This almost took out a man on a motorbike (wearing only shorts and t shirt) who had to squirt the throttle to get in front of the bus, he actually knocked his number plate off on the front bumper of the bus. Moments later the bus decided it wanted to turn off and moved across all three lanes with no warning, pushing a lorry onto the hard shoulder.
No-one batted an eyelid, no-one beeped, no shouting, no international hand signals. Just a perfectly normal day in Sao Paulo. The road users who we complain about in the UK should take some lessons off these guys. What an experience, I've certainly gained a bit of perspective and in the taxi back home from Heathrow this morning I laughed at how "good" the "bad" driving was on the M25. I almost cried with laughter thinking of someone from BRAKE spending 5 minutes on Brazil's roads, their heads would explode (and my more-travelled colleagues tell me Brazil is pretty good compared to other places, Indonesia in particular).
Roads in the UK are made out of cotton wool, lightly moistened with babies' tears compared to the rest of the world, enjoy it!
