Tales from today's commute....

[Frood42]

Despite the overcast weather, and a slight wind, it was a nice commute today.
I decided to go with the shorts depsite the wind, and this gave me an incentive to keep a good pace up to keep my legs warm (which seemed to work).
It is also nice to have a proper range of gears on the bike again, starting to set some better times on the hills and my knees are much better for not having to stick on the largest front cog.

3xPB's on Strava as well (nothing too impressive, unless you are me )

http://app.strava.com/activities/55441660

 

[Frood42]

Accident this morning, clipped a pedestrian and went flying, they were ok, I landed on my back, head snapped back to the ground, helmet is written off and I'm walking funny. It's been reported to the police, I know where the pedestrian will be so will go and check on them again in a moment. Bike looks ok, pannier bag took most of the fall. Might be off to hospital to get the head checked out.

Hope you, the bike (and the ped) are all ok.

 

[Leodis]

Accident this morning, clipped a pedestrian and went flying, they were ok, I landed on my back, head snapped back to the ground, helmet is written off and I'm walking funny. It's been reported to the police, I know where the pedestrian will be so will go and check on them again in a moment. Bike looks ok, pannier bag took most of the fall. Might be off to hospital to get the head checked out.

Sounds nasty, least you are not badly injured and the Ped is ok. Hope you are checked out ok.

 

[kipster]

Sounds nasty, least you are not badly injured and the Ped is ok. Hope you are checked out ok.

I've been check out and all is ok, a bit of road rash on my back but nothing lasting. The ped is ok. Not had a good look at the bike yet, it's locked up at work but I'll go and collect it later. The wife was full of sympathy as she drove me up to A&E and said that we ought to get wills written up! Probably off the bike for the rest of this week, but I'm hopeful of doing some miles at the weekend.

 

[Leodis]

I've been check out and all is ok, a bit of road rash on my back but nothing lasting. The ped is ok. Not had a good look at the bike yet, it's locked up at work but I'll go and collect it later. The wife was full of sympathy as she drove me up to A&E and said that we ought to get wills written up! Probably off the bike for the rest of this week, but I'm hopeful of doing some miles at the weekend.

I had a knock the other week, the wife gave me hell when I told her, she probs has you insured for "ten million pounds".... Hope the bike is ok.

 

[Spartak]

Hope you're back on your bike soon, Kipster.

My longer commute today took me into Central Bristol again, but this time took the flat route out & joined the Festival Way ( route 33 ) at Long Ashton, a great cycle route that takes via Flax Bourton to Nailsea.
Stopped briefly in Nailsea to have a banana & a can of Coke before the hard climb of Tickenham hill, however it did lead to the fantastic descent of Caswell Hill into Portbury village. 35kms in total

 

[HLaB]

Woke up early this morning, looked out the it looked a bit wet and blowy so I went back to bed for 40 minutes/winks. It was still misserable then but I was in a better mood so I didn't mind the wet 4.3 miles to work; arrived a bit early and wen for a couple of congested loops in traffic taking it to 5.2miles
Sun's come out this evening but it'll only be a short commute so I can go out on a proper ride

 

[dodd82]

Commuted for the first time in a couple of weeks, as am using the weeks to recover from long training rides.

It seems every commute I've done for the last 6 months has been into the wind.

 

[martinclive]

Rode home in my 'Accent.Jobs' full team kit (30euros in Belgium for full kit a few months ago - had to be done) and we were pased by an 'Accent.Jobs' car - sadly they did not stop and pass out bidons and gels - maybe because I have last year's kit

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Contemplating the shocking headwind today! All the way to Cambs. I Assume that means you have a tail wind @kevin_cambs_uk ?

tail wind going in !! coming home a different story !

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

well something wrong with my left knee, a discomfort on the top left of it and the muscle behind hurts when I stretch the leg out fully, so taking it easy for the rest of the week, so no more mad commuting......that's not going to be easy, but better slow and still riding than on the bus or car

 

[Kookas]

Realised I'd stopped 'trying' on my commute recently, and had started commuting 'efficiently'. This was unacceptable. So I did some fairly harsh interval training on the way back. Good bit of commuting, that.

 

[kipster]

[QUOTE 2465120, member: 1314"]s***e - how did it happened?[/quote]

The ped didn't look when crossing a side road, or thought they had enough time. I had two lights on the front, one static one flashing and left arm was out indicating. I may have misjudged where he was and we must have gone shoulder to shoulder, which launched me off the bike.

As I came of worse, I'll learn from it as on reflection I could've avoided it, regardless of their actions.

The bike is back home after a short visit to the lbs to straighten out the rear hanger while I checked out some new helmets, invested in a Botranger Circuit, very comfy.

 

[stowie]

Cycling down the A10 to Shoreditch, bus in front pulls in and I pull round as the cabbie behind leaves space. Nice of the cabbie I think, and give a cheery wave of thanks as he passes. At the next set of lights (he was in the right hand lane, I was going straight on) the following dialogue occurs

Taxi Driver : Oi, I left loads of space - no need to get funny with me. Effing cyclists!
Me : Err, I wasn't being funny
Taxi Driver : Why with the sarcastic wave then?
Me : It wasn't sarcastic, I was genuinely thanking you for being so considerate and letting me around.
Taxi Driver : Errr, Ummm, Errr, well maybe you should use a wave that doesn't seem sarcastic
Me : Thanks for the feedback - I will certainly look to work on that.

Had me chuckling for hours.

 

[glenn forger]

Sarcastic wave versus non-sarcastic wave. How on earth..