Tales from today's commute....

[Glow worm]

Still seeing people wearing waterproof Hi-Viz

You should see some of the cyclists down in Cambridge. Soft as the proverbial. Yesterday, I saw one bloke wearing woolly gloves, another in some kind of enormous overcoat effort, and even one super softy in a woolly bobble hat. FFS It was baking! They must be sort of Geordies in reverse

 

[Supersuperleeds]

There's a bit of cloud here today but temp is normal for this time of year, the rest of the week is wall to wall sunshine, fri is gonna be possibly hottest of the year so far, quit ya moaning

I wasn't moaning, much, just getting in on the blame game early just in case it rains

 

[BSRU]

You should see some of the cyclists down in Cambridge. Soft as the proverbial. Yesterday, I saw one bloke wearing woolly gloves, another in some kind of enormous overcoat effort, and even one super softy in a woolly bobble hat. FFS It was baking! They must be sort of Geordies in reverse

Maybe they're Aussies .

 

[HLaB]

You should see some of the cyclists down in Cambridge. Soft as the proverbial. Yesterday, I saw one bloke wearing woolly gloves, another in some kind of enormous overcoat effort, and even one super softy in a woolly bobble hat. FFS It was baking! They must be sort of Geordies in reverse

Saw a woman going the opposite way to me on the cycle path who was also wearing a wooly bonnet I suppose it was pretty cold at 8:20; I chose to wear arm warmers

 

[Kookas]

Hang on, why is it soft to wear a lot of clothing in the heat, but hard as frack to wear no clothes in the cold? The principle is the same, just in the other direction.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Lovely few commutes with 3 new PR's on Strava. Had a short ride home tonight (no drinks bottle for longer ride home) so was coming down hill into village (doing about 30mph in a 30mph limit) indicating to turn right, and yep, the DICKHEAD in the purple KA just had to be past, and passes me as . Then once past starts waving their arms at me...?

 

[ianrauk]

A fabulous ride home. This sunshiney lark is great. Once again the yellow thing in the sky bought out a lot of fair weathers.
Noticed another cyclist, or rather his very shiny new shoes. As I was looking at them he decided to have a clipless moment poor chap I said good thing there wasn't any other cyclists around to witness it. Fair play to him as he laughed at that.

 

[400bhp]

New job

New commute going through back lanes.

So far so good.

 

[Andrew Brown]

After a shocker of a day, was good to get on the bike, got new record on one Strava segment, 3rd now overall, so happy for a bit, until my saddle rail snapped about 2 miles from home... Made last bit fairly slow...

 

[Frood42]

Decided to take a longer commute this evening as the sun had decided to stay out, it was lovely (apart from the wind).
So a 30 mile commute tonight (rather than the 20 miles the last couple of days).
Legs are a bit tired, but I have ordered pizza, so I am going to go enjoy that now!

 

[avsd]

Home in sunshine and a tail breeze To top it off seen a pair of herons gliding up the River Lagan. Nature at its best.

 

[potsy]

Added 4 miles on tonight, rude not to in this weather

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

3rd day in a row of my 63 mile round commute, really felt it too, had more in the lungs left to give but legs felt awful. Going for a new PB this week, previous is 288 miles, hoping for around 325.

Had a bad moment after a short sharp climb, I needed a few real big air intakes but couldn't due to the 1 million or so flying buzzy things that were all around me ! !

 

[Kookas]

My rear gear cable snapped, giving me my first involuntary experience of single speed riding since I was about 6. It was on the smallest sprocket, too, so all the more hellish and I eventually succumbed to walking the final mile or two of my route.

The cable had only done 829 miles. I'm sure they should last longer than that.

 

[Tim Hall]

My rear gear cable snapped, giving me my first involuntary experience of single speed riding since I was about 6. It was on the smallest sprocket, too, so all the more hellish and I eventually succumbed to walking the final mile or two of my route.

The cable had only done 829 miles. I'm sure they should last longer than that.

When the cable snaps, the mech will go to the smallest sprocket regardless, as that's the way it works. If the break is other than in the shifter, you can use the broken end to jury rig it into lower gear. Extract the broken end, with nipple attached from the shifter. Remove the broken bit from the mech. Feed the bit from the shifter into the mech, such that the nipple jams in the cable adjuster. Push the mech across to a middling gear. With your third hand(!) clamp the cable onto the mech, so the mech stays in place. Fine adjustment, to stop that nasty rattling noise, is achieved by twisting the cable adjuster.

We did this to The Claud's bike on an FNRTTC, albiet with a whole new cable, after her shifter eat the old one. It was Adrian's idea