Tales from today's commute....

[Supersuperleeds]

I thought you used the defender of the tube, Marathon Plus.

Nothing is infallible. Not even the Marathon Plus.

This was on the Sirrus, still got the stock tyres on it, LBS persuaded me to leave them on. They will be changed this weekend to the trusty marathon plus though. To be fair to the stock tyre, there was a lot of glass on the cycle path and my tyres might not of been to full pressure

 

[G3CWI]

Fell off today. The off-road section of my commute is now rather overgrown and I caught a rut badly. No harm done. 10 miles of loveliness. Going to be hot on the way home.

 

[BSRU]

there was a lot of glass on the cycle path

One of the reasons I avoid cycle/shared paths, broken glass especially after the weekend or an England football game.

 

[tmesis]

I know the time, and that it was a Veolia Environment truck, but that's not enough to report it, is it?

I'd report it to Veolia at least. They're pretty likely to have a tracker on the vehicle, so should be able to work out which vehicle it was given the time and place. I work for a vehicle tracking company and driver behaviour is an important issue for our customers, they tend to take it pretty seriously.

 

[Frood42]

Fairly boring commute this morning (decided to have a lie in and take the short route as I only have to do 28 miles to hit my target of 200 miles for the week).

Sun has decided to take another nap this morning.
I really hope that come Saturday the sun will have had enough rest and we get the promised warm sunny conditions of 28c .

 

[BSRU]

Fairly boring commute this morning (decided to have a lie in and take the short route as I only have to do 28 miles to hit my target of 200 miles for the week).

Sun has decided to take another nap this morning.
I really hope that come Saturday the sun will have had enough rest and we get the promised warm sunny conditions of 28c .

I hope the Sun stays behind the clouds, the vast difference in colour between my tanned arms and pastey white hands means for my short ride home for lunch I have stopped wearing mitts to try and get some colour on my hands .

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I hope the Sun stays behind the clouds, the vast difference in colour between my tanned arms and pastey white hands means for my short ride home for lunch I have stopped wearing mitts to try and get some colour on my hands .

I wear fingerless gloves and have tan lines across my thumbs

 

[Frood42]

I hope the Sun stays behind the clouds, the vast difference in colour between my tanned arms and pastey white hands means for my short ride home for lunch I have stopped wearing mitts to try and get some colour on my hands .

I have pastey white hands as well from wearing my gloves, all part of the look!
I also have definite tan lines where my shorts and t-shirts end on my legs and arms, the back of my neck is also quite brown (looks as though I haven't washed).

So I now look somewhat like a proper cyclist.

 

[BSRU]

Saw an officer of the law on a MTB at lunch time, he must have been sweating buckets under all that police gear and not a sign of a water bottle anywhere.

 

[TheJDog]

I had a completely uneventful ride in, but a colleague was sideswiped and knocked off by a red transit which proceeded to speed off. He got the registration, and doesn't seem all that badly hurt.

 

[EthelF]

I'd report it to Veolia at least. They're pretty likely to have a tracker on the vehicle, so should be able to work out which vehicle it was given the time and place. I work for a vehicle tracking company and driver behaviour is an important issue for our customers, they tend to take it pretty seriously.

Actually, just after that post I decided to report it to Veolia anyway. Hopefully I'll hear back from them. Feeling on a bit of a roll on that front after yesterday receiving positive feedback from the Met's Roadsafe team on the last two incidents I reported to them.

 

[Spartak]

The Golden Gromit outside of the Victoria Rooms.
Taken at 5am this morning on my cross Bristol commute

 

[Archeress]

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The Golden Gromit outside of the Victoria Rooms.
Taken at 5am this morning on my cross Bristol commute

I saw that Gromit last Friday on my big lap of Bristol. Must have seen about 10 or 12 of the Gromits around the City. There's even one on board one of the ferries in the floating harbour.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[Strathlubnaig]

an interesting story from Montréal
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cyclist-says-montreal-police-went-too-far-135418604.html

 

[BSRU]

an interesting story from Montréal
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cyclist-says-montreal-police-went-too-far-135418604.html

He deserved it.