Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Light tailwind into work, much stronger headwind by the time I came home

So I get the tailwind home later ? Deffo felt it returning to the office at lunch. Hard work with that Westerly.

 

[potsy]

So I get the tailwind home later ?

And the rain hopefully

 

[Deleted member 1258]

hello wind I didn't really miss you.

Riding at a low heart rate is a good training exercise.

I've got some of that to do, I put on about 10lb over the winter, I'll be dieting that off in a few weeks so I will be commuting with a heart monitor for a few weeks, keeping it down to zone 1-zone 2.

 

[BSRU]

My Evil SCR this morning looked even more evil when I watched the video

 

[Gains84]

I rode the long way home to enjoy the sunshine and the best downhill section was completely ruined by a tractor going down it with a gigantic roller on the back at about 6mph...me and motorbike bloke eventually squeezed past though so still got the smug face on when over taking the cars!
Nice week of riding all in all (apart from breaking a stem on normal commuter) - just want the mornings to be warm enough for no extra layers to cart back and forth more!

 

[fossyant]

Steady ride home tonight. Valuable stuff in my panniers.

M&S 2 dine for £10 meal and three bottles of wine. Don't want to be spilling any.

 

[Leodis]

Changed route home tonight, a nice change but my legs know its Friday still found the new route is a lot quicker and only half mile longer.

 

[Andrew_P]

Mid 30's lady passenger alongside me @ 25 mph "great body" thumbs up, no way was she taking the pish

 

[HLaB]

A nice easy commute to the pub for me, a couple of slow pints in the beer garden and when everybody else went indoors like a light weight I took my leave. The headwind on the way back seemed hard but that might have been the two beers in me

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Another bootiful weeks worth of commuting. Last weeks PB of 245 miles Mon - Fri got knocked right out of the park this week with a 285 Thinking about trying for a 300 next week, we'll see.....

 

[jarlrmai]

tailwind fark yeah

 

[ianrauk]

My Evil SCR this morning looked even more evil when I watched the video

drums fingers on table...waiting...

 

[BSRU]

drums fingers on table...waiting...

Even more evil showing the video to other people

Can be summarised as follows:-
First 40 seconds I go away, just because I carried more momentum through the roundabout where he joined, he had to make a right turn but I had a straight line.
Then until about 2 minutes 30 seconds in, he can be seen getting closer and closer .
Then I change up, put a little squirt on and I quickly increase the gap.
Not to impressed with his road positioning, cycling in the suicide lane and the door zone .


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy-lcW9WIqc

 

[ianrauk]

Excellent stuff.
You can see at the beginning he was trying to reel you in.......no hope..

I liked the shadow cam..

 

[BSRU]

Excellent stuff.
You can see at the beginning he was trying to reel you in.......no hope..

I liked the shadow cam..

At least it shows I'm not a vampire