Tales from today's commute....

[Supersuperleeds]

Very windy but dry, I must be getting fitter, a few months ago I would have averaged close to 14mph in winds like that, Strava (the robbing bar steward) gave me 15.8mph, GPS was a tad over 16mph.

Did my good deed for the day, saw a woman (Leodis, she wasn't fit) fall over going to her car, so stopped to see she was okay, she was.

 

[Beebo]

Does anyone know when summer will arrive?

Or have we missed it, it felt a bit autumnal today.

 

[martinclive]

Does anyone know when summer will arrive?

Or have we missed it, it felt a bit autumnal today.

Yeah - nights start drawing in in a couple of weeks time!

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Its official. I missed the summer. Felt like I was fighting against gale force winds all the way in this morning. Thinking of putting a sail on my bike for the cycle home.

 

[glenn forger]

Yeah - nights start drawing in in a couple of weeks time!

8 days.

 

[Jdratcliffe]

Its official. I missed the summer. Felt like I was fighting against gale force winds all the way in this morning. Thinking of putting a sail on my bike for the cycle home.

+1 thou knowing my luck the wind will do a 180 and hit my harder on the way home.

 

[thefollen]

Does anyone know when summer will arrive?

Or have we missed it, it felt a bit autumnal today.

Summer was last weekend I think. Now approaches 'the warmish rainy season'. All things considered I'd say Autumn's the best of the bunch these days.

 

[DWiggy]

Yeah - nights start drawing in in a couple of weeks time!

Meeeh!

 

[fossyant]

Hmm, Got a site visit later. Raining now and it's also a bit warm = boil in bag. Will also have nowhere to dry any kit, so it will be soggy sweatty clothes on the way home (also forgot extra base layer - nice to have a spare top)

Could be worse, could be on a bus !

 

[BSRU]

Very strong gusty wind always seemed to be a headwind every time I needed to go up, especially up a cat 4 climb.
Fortunately on the main commuter(tourer) so lots of low gears to help fight the headwind up the climb.

 

[Leodis]

Pretty tough wind this morning, I seem to have more energy on the homeward journey than work, only diff is I cannot shower in the evening after the commute but can when I arrive at work.

 

[plainlazy]

Not the best ride in this morning.
Firstly, still soggy from the ride home last night. Had a fallen tree block my route, so had to back track.
Strong heads winds making a normal 22mph stetch into a 12mph crawl.
Had my lights on and could see my breath going up Portsdown hill !
Felt like November not June.
My bike suffered in the rain last night, as this morning i could only get Two gears.

 

[GrasB]

How do you know when you're facing a strong headwind?... When your speed becomes directly proportional to the climbing gradient

 

[Hip Priest]

How do you know when you're facing a strong headwind?... When your speed becomes directly proportional to the climbing gradient

So 20mph on a 20% hill then? Well done!

 

[Hip Priest]

I rode a relative's 80s racer to work today, in order to test it. It was all in working order, but it has 'man gears' and is too small for me, and now my knees hurt.