Tales from today's commute....

[GrasB]

I have 2 pairs of 3/4 and I do like them a lot. If I waited until 20 degrees at the beginning of a ride before wearing shorts, I would either never wear them at all or have to start my rides in the afternoon. CBA with leg warmers either.

There's a reason I have 2 pair of cycling shorts in the UK & 4 pairs of 3/4 longs lightweight

 

[subaqua]

To the woman:

To the HGV driver:

SIG deliver to us regularly so i might recheck the reg and see if its the same driver and thank him for his observation skills.

 

[Matthew_T]

First time since September that I have commuted home in under an hour! Saw plenty of other cyclists too. One had a chat with me about my camera.

Had a bit of an incident this morning with a belligerent old couple who swerved right to block me from passing. I stopped and then they reversed up to me. Male driver kept saying "There's a cycle lane there", I tried to explain that I was on the road. He finally concluded with "That is a cycle lane, this is the road, so feck off". To which I replied with a round of applause and a sarcastic "Yes! You get it now!".

I dont know why I stopped, you just cant teach some people.

 

[Lyrical]

3/4 longs at 10C, shorts as 20c?
If shorts at 10C... what did you knees do to deserve that abuse?

You gotta help me out with this one, explain?

Other than that, lush ride home. Them tan lines already forming.

 

[subaqua]

lovely ride in couldn't work out what the ping ping ping on a regular basis was- i did when i got to work tho- broken spoke . i will hopefuly be OK for the ride home and have to use my road bike tomorrow while i take tyre off etc to get spoke to buy correct size one.

 

[DWiggy]

Ride home yesterday was awesome , although I did swallow numerous insects, also got a KOM i've been after ooooosh !
Ride in today was also superb, 1/3bibs and jersey was warm enough (Cold to start but after 10mins was well up to temperature) also taken the mudguard of the bike...looks soooo much better without it!

 

[Vikeonabike]

6am commute home in the sun in Shorts and jersey.. I love Cycling!

 

[dodd82]

Terrible evening yesterday. 5 mins in and I hear rubbing... stop to take a look and there's a bulge in my tyre that is rubbing against the brake.

Then I find my pump is broken, so I plan to ride it back to work to use the pump there, along with the tyre levers that I do have with me. Then the rubbing intensifies and the inner tube explodes. My own fault.

Walk back to work. Spend an hour replacing the tyre over and over but cannot get rid of the bulge. Give up and get train home, arriving about 2 and a half hours later than usual.

Still none the wiser about what is wrong.

Fed up.

 

[Sittingduck]

Terrible evening yesterday. 5 mins in and I hear rubbing... stop to take a look and there's a bulge in my tyre that is rubbing against the brake.

Then I find my pump is broken, so I plan to ride it back to work to use the pump there, along with the tyre levers that I do have with me. Then the rubbing intensifies and the inner tube explodes. My own fault.

Walk back to work. Spend an hour replacing the tyre over and over but cannot get rid of the bulge. Give up and get train home, arriving about 2 and a half hours later than usual.

Still none the wiser about what is wrong.

Fed up.

When you say 'replacing the tyre', do you mean you have swapped it for another tyre or just put in a new innertube?

 

[dodd82]

When you say 'replacing the tyre', do you mean you have swapped it for another tyre or just put in a new innertube?

Sorry, I meant refitting rather than replacing.

Presumably there maybe a problem with the tyre, but it was fine before last week when I had my first puncture, so don't see what has changed.

Perhaps the inner tubes are wrong, but I don't see how.

 

[Sittingduck]

strange... is the bulge by the valve?

and have you checked the tube isn't caught between the bead and rim before re-inflating?

 

[dodd82]

strange... is the bulge by the valve?

and have you checked the tube isn't caught between the bead and rim before re-inflating?

It is, yeh.

I'm going to take it up the bike shop later, but hate it when I can't sort out the problem myself.

 

[kipster]

After weeks of relatively incident free commuting, it felt like all the rubbish drivers were out today.

Two cars overtaking me into oncoming traffic meaning they needed to cut across me after misjudging my speed. Caught up with them at traffic lights and ask one of them it that 0 second advantage was worth putting me, the on coming driver, her and her baby in the back of the car at risk, she just shrugged, I wished her a safe onward journey.

Then nearly wiped out at a crossroads at the traffic lights, then a near head on with a transit not observing a give way at a pinch point, and lastly another cyclist telling me off for having the front light flashing 'you don't need lights on, it's daylight', now I am of the opinion that if I want my lights on, I will have my lights on, not that they did me any good this morning, so maybe he's right.

 

[fossyant]

Well my hipster fixie boy (riding Single speed). If you are going to try and chase me on your create bike () then jump onto the pavement as I'm cruising upto lights, where you then jump the junction and carry on, make damn sure you can make your speed stick. You died completely getting over the Longley Lane motorway bridge. Despite me setting off a huge 30 seconds later (why you jumped the lights is beyond me - you were a grown man) I passed you at about twice the speed you were doing. Bye bye.

Don't mess with proper cyclists

 

[BSRU]

A misty ride in this morning and only 7 degrees, so long sleeve worn.

Saw the unicyclist again going my way this time, the wheel is actually alot bigger than I thought.