Tales from today's commute....

[Jdratcliffe]

Soaking wet on the ride in today was nice to have a clean bike for few days.. back to wet commutes i guess.. :-(

 

[ianrauk]

Same here I too wondered what it was, don't remember seeing it before either. This was SE London area too

It's the grit and salt residue.

 

[Leodis]

This was said to me by a real cop on a Sunday Morning London Ride by Buck House.
So we did, only for a jumped up peanut of a PCSO fine me £30. A PCSO by the name of Gordon Brown.

I thought it was just a myth of the £30 fine.

 

[ianrauk]

I thought it was just a myth of the £30 fine.

Oh no...

 

[Leodis]

I wonder if they give the fines to BSO riding chavs or do they leave it for people who can pay the fine?

 

[DWiggy]

According to my reliable Met office app, tomorrow at 4pm there will be gusts of 50mph....wohaa, hope its a tail wind!

 

[Andrew_P]

According to my reliable Met office app, tomorrow at 4pm there will be gusts of 50mph....wohaa, hope its a tail wind!

I was expecting a tough ride in this morning, going by the BBC local weather report on th the TV I should have had 15mph+ headwinds, if they were there I didn't notice them

 

[gaz]

Put on a long sleeve base layer for some reason this morning and I boiled on the way into work!

 

[MichaelO]

According to my reliable Met office app, tomorrow at 4pm there will be gusts of 50mph....wohaa, hope its a tail wind!

Headwind for me tomorrow night
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/london

 

[HLaB]

According to my reliable Met office app, tomorrow at 4pm there will be gusts of 50mph....wohaa, hope its a tail wind!

SSW here and my commute is westardly headwind for me! We are only getting 48mph gusts

 

[DWiggy]

My ride home is Easterly so as side/tail wind for me, should be fun...gulp.

 

[addictfreak]

A tale of two rides today. Decided on an MTB commute this morning taking in a coastal route along the a cliff top path. Warm enough for shorts and short sleeves at 7am. Route is only 10 mile but about 40% off road. Great ride, picked up a little bit of a tailwind along the coast, so thought I might pick up a KOM. In fact I managed to pick up two, but surprisingly not where I had a tailwind!
Ride home was a little different, the coastal tailwind and turned into a strong headwind and the drizzle added to the atmosphere. Still warm enough for shorts etc and a light shell to keep that rain off.
Two enjoyable rides, may use the MTB again tomorrow.

 

[GrasB]

Got 10 seconds of horn from a driver today. He objected to me not overtaking 2 cyclists on a blind S-bend which was making him late, so late he needed to stop blocking the road so no one could get past to get out of his car & yell at me. Quickly got back in his car when I got out of mine... Oh yes I like my white Orca compression tops

 

[Supersuperleeds]

12 miles or so of headwind tonight, average speed was 14.1mph, then turned for 9 miles of tailwind and managed to get the average speed for the whole ride up to 15.3mph. Rain managed to hold off apart from a very bit of light drizzle for around a mile or so.

 

[subaqua]

this mornings commute was brought to you by the song wishing i was lucky . mainly cos its wet wet wet. and i still managed to put in a good time. traffic cops were out on Bow fly heading towards Stratford so had a few numpties not look at the road on the side thney should but at the side they shouldn't.

ride home was a good one too. traffic cops were still at bow, but i didn't see them till i was giving it beanz on the downhill and i got a thumbs up and a big grin from the guy on the gun when i went past. i think i might have been going over 30