Tales from today's commute....

[Edwards80]

If you ride a new looking Triban 5 and were riding through cheadle today. You ran a red after I overtook you, then shouted "I'll race you if you like mate" when I went past you again . . as you were riding on the pavement.

You're an assclown, please stop.

Only slightly less annoying than the pedal squeak that started on my ride in today

 

[Archeress]

Headwind on the way into work, not cool :-(
And the traffic lights that stay on red until they detect a large vehicle. I don't RLJ, but was sooo tempted with being stopped at 2 sets for an age this morning. One set was at the start of a road closed to traffic traffic except buses and cycles and :O

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[BSRU]

Cold, especially when the sun went behind one of the many dark clouds combined with no protection from the brisk wind

A driver drove straight through a red light and almost straight through me, luckily alerted them(woke them up) to my presence with the Airzound. A sorry after the event does not excuse such poor observation when in "control" of a large metal object.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

That was hard work. I was in the middle front ring going downhill the wind was that bad on some stretches. legs definitely did not want to work this morning. After tonights commute no more until Wednesday as I am having an extended weekend

 

[Tim Hall]

My left bar end is loose and it moves when I accelerate from the lights.

the threads have stripped because they're approaching 20 years old.

Top tip: Don't try to bang it back into place while cycling along. It'll all end badly.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

My left bar end is loose and it moves when I accelerate from the lights.

the threads have stripped because they're approaching 20 years old.

Sounds like a good excuse for a new bike

 

[BSRU]

That was hard work. I was in the middle front ring going downhill the wind was that bad on some stretches. legs definitely did not want to work this morning. After tonights commute no more until Wednesday as I am having an extended weekend

Slacker

 

[apb]

Felt really tired this morning, maybe something to do with the half bottle of red i had last night.

The head wind last night almost ended me.

 

[Cycleconvert]

Good commute this morning. The sun was out although it was a little bit windy and I nearly had a wobble thanks to a gust from the side. I'm hoping the weather will improve in June!

 

[HLaB]

Had to head to a suburb for a survey this morning, one I'd usually avoid as its car orrientated. My reasoning was justified when a bin lorry decided he was going to overtake through a rbt and cut towards the same exit I was heading to. Perhaps horrified by that (it wasn't a biggie really, I just had to drop back, it'd only be dangerous if I didn't) the following car waited carefully through the next rbt, even though it was small and the rbt was bigger and waited half way along a long and wide straight before overtaking; it restored my faith in humanity anyway

 

[Frood42]

Windy again
New route into work tried, to avoid the temporary lights on my usual commute, and it wasn't too bad.

I did discover one place where they have road works where I'll need to move into the right hand lane sooner to get around them.
Left hand lane now closed: http://goo.gl/maps/qnYMs

It's normally two way traffic, but as they have closed the left hand lane off, they have turned it into a one way and diverted the oncoming traffic around another way.
The problem is that this is uphill for me, so I stayed in primary in the left hand lane to try and be considerate for as long as I dared, but this meant impatient and ignorant car and van drivers were moving across to right hand lane very early to get past me and an unkind person in a royal mail van decided to give me no room as he passed and I was moving from the left hand to right hand lane to get around the road works.

You cannot miss the bright orange fencing, my bright yellow hump bag cover and my bright yellow jacket, especially with the time and distance they have, it's just damn inconsiderate driving.

So I shall move across sooner now, if people cannot return the same consideration I was trying to give then they can just wait

 

[Leodis]

Pretty steady ride into work this morning, blinded a few peds and cyclists en route with a flashing light, least its keeping opticians busy and I arrived at work safe.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Got into the lift at work and saw a load of dirt all over one of the (usually) nice mirrored walls.

What's that I thought? Closer inspection revealed it to be yellow and sandy just like the path along the converted railway line I'd ridden to get to work.

Note to self: next time walk up the stairs and save the cleaners some work.

 

[Ciar]

Windy again
New route into work tried, to avoid the temporary lights on my usual commute, and it wasn't too bad.

I did discover one place where they have road works where I'll need to move into the right hand lane sooner to get around them.
Left hand lane now closed: http://goo.gl/maps/qnYMs

It's normally two way traffic, but as they have closed the left hand lane off, they have turned it into a one way and diverted the oncoming traffic around another way.
The problem is that this is uphill for me, so I stayed in primary in the left hand lane to try and be considerate for as long as I dared, but this meant impatient and ignorant car and van drivers were moving across to right hand lane very early to get past me and an unkind person in a royal mail van decided to give me no room as he passed and I was moving from the left hand to right hand lane to get around the road works.

You cannot miss the bright orange fencing, my bright yellow hump bag cover and my bright yellow jacket, especially with the time and distance they have, it's just damn inconsiderate driving.

So I shall move across sooner now, if people cannot return the same consideration I was trying to give then they can just wait

seems that this stretch of always has bad drivers on it, heading to the mini rabt up top, think it's the lack of parking and people generally desperate to get up on pavement, also read an article saying they had just granted £1-2m to redo this area up. just as a heads up the last bit

 

[potsy]

Another extended commute, good to be trying new routes.
Sunny but v cool as Ieft this morning at 6am