Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Nobbers out in the sun. Close pass by chav boy in golf. Then a cut up in a bus lane, driver heard my yelp of shoot through their passenger windows. Chav boy also cut down bus lane. I gave him the death stare followed by him honking his horn, followed by my victory sign as I filtered past another 30 cars. Then an attempted left hook. At least I have fresh air on the bike.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Been run off the road EVERY day this week.

Latest one this morning by a school bus driver. Luckily, another bus following witnessed it. Reported to the bus company.

Lovely incident free 19 mile ride home. Pity the 2.5 mile ride in has been such a pain.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

20 miles home, shortest ride of the week, hit 283 miles for commuting this week, a personal record.

Saw two roadies with punctures on the great central way, neither required help. Can I claim them as scalps?

 

[Beebo]

Tonight I swallowed my first fly of the year. Eurghhhhh

 

[ianrauk]

Tonight I swallowed my first fly of the year. Eurghhhhh

First? Blimey.
I must learn to keep my gob shut on rides....

 

[GrasB]

It's an old stable - brick built, covered with a pitched roof. The downside is that there are loads of wheel bender stands, but as no-one else uses it I lock the bike sideways on.

Sounds more & more like heaven... enough space to chose where you put your bike & a roof!

 

[ClaireSaud]

[QUOTE 2535506, member: 1314"]Can you not challenge his behaviour on the road with your company/line management?[/quote]
I would love to but he is part of "the little boys club" and would probably cause me more grief. I'm relying on karma to sort him out - wimpish I know. Thanks for your concern

 

[Spartak]

Temp. was 16 degrees at 4:20 this morning so only wore a short sleeve jersey !
Lovely ride across the deserted streets of Bristol.

 

[Archeress]

It's gonna be a hot one today... the cycle computer read 22ºC on my commute in. Strangely quiet too. Little traffic either motor or cycle. At least I work in the fridges in the shop... gonna find some empty racking and get a nap in the cool.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[BSRU]

Set off a earlier today to ride most of my kilometres as early as possible to avoid the blistering Sun later in the day.

 

[MickL]

lovely 10.5 miles and approx 9 miles of traffic free canal towpath just lovely even with the pollen count being up still couldn't damping today's ride in !!

 

[ianrauk]

So the very warm weather has bought a lot of cyclists out.

One was a bastard love child of TrafficDriod and MatthewT. He had so much crap on his bike it was a wonder he could keep it upright. Including big fat indicators front and rear, More lights then you can shake a stick at. And was wearing a Nightvision evo jacket.. in this weather...wtf?

You can tell who the sunday cyclists are. They are the ones that have nice bikes and all the gear, they try to keep in front of you but have no idea as how to deal with rush hour traffic so take silly risks. Still couldn't beat me on the A21 run.bit of advice, hang back a little at junctions, gear down and you get a nice quick run. That way you won't be so surprised at other cyclists overtaking you all the time as you struggle to clip in and get going.

 

[fossyant]

That was .

The office is

Time for a cuppa !

 

[apb]

First day back after a week off. Lots of cake, chocolate, booze and generally unhealthy stuff sweated out this morning.

 

[Frood42]

Sun - check
Beautiful blue skys - check
Lovely country roads - check
Dropped a bloke on a road bike - check
Annoying headwind - check

Wow, what a lovely commute in!
To top it off, best ride of the year so far by the looks of it.
According to my GPS, I did 22.4mi in 1hr 23mins at an avg speed of 16.2

Woman on a Cannondale annoyed me slightly, went past me on a slight uphill, fair enough, but then didn't keep the pace up after she overtook . If you are going to overtake someone at least keep you're pace up...
We weren't too far from a roundabout and I suppose she did act as a wind blocker, and the view was quite nice , so I stayed where I was and enjoyed the slight break from the wind and the view


I also had to laugh at the silly, silly woman in her Chrysler people carrier (who must have took one look at the fat bloke on a bike and thought I was going to be slow ).

I was at some lights in primary just before a roundabout (http://goo.gl/maps/ISRr1), she had come behind me, and had stopped her car across both lanes, blocking the right hand lane (I was in the left hand lane and she also wanted to be there, but there is a bus lane there, and I was stopped just after the bus lane in primary, as there is the roundabout coming up).

As the traffic gets moving she decides she doesn't want to wait for me (even though I am keeping up with the car ahead) and goes up the right hand lane to try and get ahead, and she continues to try to do this on the roundabout (http://goo.gl/maps/Nv355) even though I am still keeping up with the car ahead... I am keeping an eye on her (in primary as I always do on roundabouts) and can see she wants to turn off the same exit as me (http://goo.gl/maps/9wfDS), I give her front number plate a good look and stare, and she gets the hint and backs off...

It did make me laugh, I don't think she was expecting me to be able to keep up with car ahead and I think she thought I was going to ride in the gutter over the drain covers, uhh, no, I won't be, I will be in primary (I know the road, the roundabout and the road you exit onto, you want to be in primary all the way around if you can keep up with the traffic, which I can, you have bus stops http://goo.gl/maps/gAJVA and schools http://goo.gl/maps/YwUKc , with children randomly walking all over the place and cars randomly pulling in and out at the school).