Tales from today's commute....

[ComedyPilot]

Drove to work as I had to go somewhere with the car later. Left work to drive to this meeting, and was waiting for a gap in the 'comfort' traffic*. Once a gap appeared I joined the 'comforts' and drove to my local town. Just after leaving the village I could clearly see 3/4 mile of nose to tail traffic in front going to the coast, so I thought, "No point trying to get past, might as well settle back and enjoy the (10 minute) drive to town - can't be arsed with sitting staring at the boot of the car in front"

I left a good 3-4 second gap to the 3/4 mile long line of vehicles in front of me and drove merrily along.

Sure enough, bloke in 'sporty' white hatchback tailgates me, then as soon as he could, overtook me to go and do what? Yep. Sit on the boot lid of the last car in the queue, not able to get past because of oncoming traffic. Gave me a massive laugh all the way to town when he was just in front of me 8 miles down the road, brake, brake, braking behind the car he was now tailgating.... Why people are in such a rush to get to the back of such an obvious queue of traffic is beyond me.

* 'Comforts' are people from West Yorkshire that drive to the coast every weekend spring/summer clogging the roads up, and when asked if they're local they reply they've just 'Come for t'day' -ie 'Comforts'

 

[Frood42]

100 miles for me this week. (self high five)

 

[campbellab]

i made it onto someone's phone album - passenger shouted, "get orf the road" with his phone out the window. i just looked back blankly the driver gave me plenty of room!

 

[Andrew_P]

wow that was a windy ride in this morning, not done a Saturday commute for ages and it was my slowest for a long time was having trouble breathing in place as the wind kept on nabbing my oxygen. Hope it stays this way for the ride home. From a terrible few day at the beginning of the week I have now had two days of pleasant drivers which is nice

 

[Bill-H]

Windy I was peddling hard to go downhill on way to work normally that means a tailwind home but going elsewhere head wind all the way

 

[400bhp]

looks like longs weather tomorrow.

 

[ianrauk]

looks like longs weather tomorrow.

Looking good for Londinium though...

 

[BSRU]

Looks like it is going to be a good week for cycling

 

[fossyant]

Looks like it is going to be a good week for cycling

Checks forecast

 

[fossyant]

Forecast - not good in Manchester !

 

[apb]

Looks like it is going to be a good week for cycling

it's looking good up here also. (well not shite. It's hardly ibiza)

 

[HLaB]

A short slow recovery commute for me (5.4 miles @ 13mph); the winds still up got blown along Oundle Road after I looped into it; overtook a lot of traffic until I got right to town and a taxi had broke down in the right turning lane at the Rivergate Gyratory and traffic was doing erratic manouvres and the vehivle in front was a 7.5t box van. I would never undetrook anyway but it had quite an audible warning system; 'caution vehicle turning left'. Although once through the junction and the following Rbt and on a wide straight with him stuck in a queue of traffic I overtook him and a half dozen cars.

 

[ianrauk]

@deptfordmarmoset Most of Lewisham was blocked off today. Loads of police lines. Traffic was at a standtill in all directions. Heard anything?

 

[BSRU]

Forecast - not good in Manchester !

Forecast for down here is it going to get warmer and sunnier .

 

[gaz]

First commute back after a week, an interesting one.
too and froed with this one guy from clapham common to stockwell, perfectly fine cycling, nothing out of the norm for a CS7 commute.
However we got to stockwell and up ahead was a HGV going through the gyratory bit and cyclists were moving through the cycle lane, apparently on the bend the lorry needed to move into the cycle lane to get around but the cyclists weren't giving him space to do so, so he just pulled into it, obviously some of the guys didn't like that and they give him the two finger salute.
Now I got stuck at the lights so didn't see what happened around the corner but when I went around at the next lights the HGV was pointing towards the first lane in a very suspicious way, considering that was a bus lane and after the junction it was a bus lane and there was no turning traffic, there was no reason for him to be there.
As I pull up to the right of the lorry the driver gets out and goes to the front of the cab where he is immediately in a pushing and shoving match with a cyclist.
Apparently the driver had purposefully moved his cab from lane 2 into lane 1 and towards the pavement to stop the cyclist, at which point there was a collision.
I hanged around a bit trying to defuse the situation but I got the feeling that both felt the other party was wrong and couldn't see any wrong doing in them selves, didn't see it going anywhere so I just left.