Tales from today's commute....

[400bhp]

The Antonov is parked on stand 80 on the cargo apron which has now been joined by a smaller Antonov with propellers,it's a Russian fest over there !!!

Just watching the antonov jobbie from office window ;-)

 

[potsy]

I may have shouted a rude word at a wvm this morning after a ridiculously close left hook, *osser

On the good bike as I'm doing a slight detour while the is out.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

A nice cool morning, quick up the Busway and caught up with @kevin_cambs_uk and had a good chat with him. Traffic well behaved in Cambridge.

I don't know about you Stan but the wind coming back was not great, lots of people going the other way, I kept thinking they must think that its easy!! until they turn around LOL!

 

[Glow worm]

Nice ride there and back to Cambridge - ideal temperature and not much wind for a change. Took a detour on the way home along the southern bit of the guided bus thing for the first time, to check out the impressive house martin colony on a building at Addenbrookes hospital. Blimey that place is enormous- and definately not very cycle friendly - still, the main thing is I counted over 80 nests.

Then, after a quick buzz through the boring city bit, I came home the pleasant rural route along an old railway line from near Fen Ditton to a place called Lode before bimbling home in the sunshine.

 

[campbellab]

A nice pleasant ride until cut up and beeped at by a VW Caddy - me doing 25mph on a steep downhill with double white lines (streetview).

I caught up and was very childish and gave him a few salutes in his mirror and he told me I should have gotten further over...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Really struggling this week, Friday legs every day and the wind is back tonight, could be worse, I could be driving to and from work.

 

[potsy]

Decided that the normal 20 mile round trip wasn't enough so 4 of us from work did a slight detour, ended up with 47 miles on the clock for the day.
Some extremely bad driving along some of the lanes, one guy even went for an overtake while we were all indicating to turn right, one lad had started the turn and was very nearly hit

 

[Andrew_P]

My legs were tired, in fact when any effort was demanded of them they burned., fecking slackers.

Cannot remember the last time I had that real burning feeling WTF is that all about!?!

Did some filtering on the outside today as quite longish tailbacks unusual for me as it normally leads to agro, and I had lovely drivers one even hung back and let me slip in I knew it was deliberate as I had seen him see me in his wing mirror.

 

[Hacienda71]

I tried to cycle home but found myself doing a hill climb up the Cat and Fiddle. Posted a PB which was nice.

 

[HLaB]

A slow recovery commute for me; I think a lorry had spilled its load on the Parkway (Ring Road) so the roads in town were a wee bit busier but that suited my slow mood. I went my 4.2mile route I could have went shorter but that would have involved rbts and I wasn't in the frame of mind to deal with them (I'd had a dull head and stomach all day). What was nice was getting flashed across by the driver two cars back in a steady stream of traffic

 

[Collider]

pro cycling tip of the day: when you hit a "valley" (where a descent ends and imediately becomes a climb) screaming something along the lines of "AAAARRRRRGGGGHHH!!!!" the moment you hit the climb will increase performance by about 1000% presumably due to aerodynamics and lactate metabolism etc.

scaring the living s**t out of all living beings in the vicinity is a bonus.

(ps. commute was awesome)

 

[Shut Up Legs]

On this morning's commute, while claiming the left lane as usual, I got

1. beeped;
2. overtaken at close range; and
3. tailgated at close range.

Having just read the UK news article on cycling participation rates, I despair of Australa ever following suit. Our mandatory helmet law is signficantly discouraging people from starting cycling, plus Australia is a completely car-dominated country.

I'm resigned to the fact that this is unlikely to change in my lifetime, and that I'll be the target of anti-cyclist prejudice for the indefinite future . I think I want to move to the UK.

 

[BSRU]

I think I want to move to the UK.

It can never be that bad

 

[thefollen]

Saw an accident today- didn't appear too serious. Firstly, I must confess, this morning I was on the motorbike (sorry). It was on the road between Stockwell and Vauxhall. Other side of the road just behind me I heard the sound of metal on road along with a shout and over my right shoulder saw a cyclst over. Think a car had pulled out of him maybe? It was around a junction turning off the main road. Anyway I pulled a u-turn (when safe) in case I could help but he'd got back on pretty quickly and cycled off. Hopefully nobody or no bikes hurt. Never good to see though.

 

[BSRU]

Another lovely commute in, looks like the last dry one this week

Completely confused by seeing a rider coming towards me in a woolly hat with ear flaps down and a duffel coat