Tales from today's commute....

[hennbell]

Proper hot summer is finally here 31C for the Lunch ride and commute home, yeh.

 

[Kookas]

Made myself look a right knob today trying to accelerate as I took a roundabout exit and clipping my pedals on the ground as I did so. Flew all over the place trying to stay on the bike, what a heart stopping moment that was.

 

[G3CWI]

Proper hot summer is finally here 31C for the Lunch ride and commute home, yeh.

Huh. 13C and raining for my commute home today. Not nice.

 

[potsy]

Wet, went with the full on waterproofs which in hindsight was probably a mistake, just as wet on the inside

 

[Frood42]

Tried to rain here, but thankfully only a few spits and then it stayed away.
Uneventful ride.

 

[Black Country Ste]

[QUOTE 2530510, member: 1314"]150 miles yesterday for my commute - London to Brum, Today back to a normal 15 miler.[/quote]

I bet you wished to experience the delights of NCN5 in the city centre on a daily basis!

 

[martint235]

Good commute in today. Made better by BBC London's lack of research. "Fuel spill between Catford Gyratory and the Yorkshire Grey" has 2 things wrong with it: first it's about 3 miles of road so something more specific would have been good; second there was no evidence of there ever having been a fuel spill. So sailed through and got a comfortable 16.6mph average for the 12 miles to work. Starting to think LEL won't be impossible after all.

 

[BSRU]

Lots of very hot cyclists around this morning, (I don't mean sexy hot either, apart from one).
So many people over dressed for +16 C, they must have been sweating buckets before they even got onto their bikes.

 

[ianrauk]

Lots of very hot cyclists around this morning, (I don't mean sexy hot either, apart from one).
So many people over dressed for +16 C, they must have been sweating buckets before they even got onto their bikes.

It is very strange. I see the same. Jacket and wet weather trousers. It must be so boil in the bag...

 

[MisterStan]

A damp and cool morning, was meant to be a nice pootle in, but @martinclive had set off a little early, so I had to play catch up for a few miles - reeled him in nicely!

Had a twunt give me a ridiculously close pass just after i'd set off, I may have given him the 'Mrs Palm and her five daughters wave', he stopped in the road to 'have a word' - I carried on past, he then shouted something about psychopaths - at least that's I think he said, wasn't very clear at 30 MPH....

 

[GrasB]

Kind of over-did it last night due to losing a water bottle with my energy drink in & finding out in the middle of no where shop wise.

I didn't get wet due to sweating this morning though... proper rain!

 

[MisterStan]

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Kind of over-did it last night due to losing a water bottle with my energy drink in & finding out in the middle of no where shop wise.

 

[HLaB]

A short uneventful ride for me. Nicely when I got to a fairly large rbt when I normally have to give way for a few minutes, another cyclist for a change had to decided to take the rbt and was passing the major dual carriageway entrance making it easy for me to enter from the next more minor road

 

[Beebo]

A bit of a hairy moment this morning,

I came across a mini peleton of three slower cyclists, so I shoulder checked and pulled out to over take.
Suddenly the 3rd cyclist decided to overtake the 2nd, and the 2nd decided to overtake the 1st, both without shoulder checking!!

We were 4 abreast, with me stuck on the outside!!

 

[GrasB]

I have quite a good collection too - no bloody good in the cupboard though are they? 2 miles in to my commute this morning, I reached down for some refreshment and realised i've not brought any with me.

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Hey, I didn't leave it at home/the office without out the bottle, it was on the bike when I started my ride ... 4 water bottles & the one that goes AWOL mid-ride is the one with the energy drink in it