Tales from today's commute....

[GrumpyGregry]

Last night; three dead roadkill badgers
One numpty driver, cr@p driver in an even cr@ppier car.

 

[Beebo]

nice ride into work, loving the mild weather and low traffic at the moment.

Anyone else see the cyclist dismount signs on Evelyn Street by KFC? The cycle lane was blocked for about 10m, but instead of instructing cyclists to ride in the rode there were two signs telling them to dismount!! I saw four cyclists, including me doing the sensible thing and riding in the road.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Had a strange one this evening.
Was scooting at a good pace up the A21 when a chap on a Cube overtook me. He was quick, but his bike handling skills were very off. Swerving here there are every where. He also liked to spit a lot.
Anyway, staying a good 10 feet behind him as we both tacked up the A21 so as not to get spat on. We hit Bromley Hill at a fair old crack. I then saw that he was slowly running out of puff on the hill. He looked back, saw I was still with him. So he then decided to ride onto the pavement let me overtake and try tack on to my wheel. Strange. Not having that I thought, so lit some spare afterburners and left him behind.

Really nice quick ride home.....

Some roadie in full team kit scalped me on the flat on Tuesday night, as I was twiddling along teasing a knotty work problem in my head. I then caught him on the next climb, he dropped me on the downhill and opened the gap on the flat, next climb I caught him again. Four times this happened.

Why do they always climb in the wrong gear? I've only the one of course! It's the same on intermediate club runs. Wait for the snick snick snick of frantic down changes, and get on the drops, grit the teeth and pedal in circles past the lot of them.

 

[BSRU]

Whist out in the countryside this morning miles from home I suddenly realised I had forgotten to put my pump in my road bike saddle bag on Tuesday morning so I had spent the past days riding pumpless

 

[HLaB]

Day 11 Of Commuting Bliss - Did I say the schools are off. Planned to take it easy and go the 2nd shortest route, decided to do the next shortest route instead and give rbts a miss. Cut 1.5 miles through Orton Mere and had an enjoyable 3 miles to town. I was taking it easy but when I started to close on another rider he gave it a bit of a burst. I resisted at first, but a mile later, when we came to the only bump in central Peterborough, I decided to keep going at the same pace I was going on the flat (tbh thats easier than dropping to a grind on the heavy fixie) and soon reeled him in.

 

[MickL]

Back on my bike woop, took it nice and easy still got in a decent time, having a 10 days of the bike has done my head in :-)

 

[fossyant]

Light winds, didn't spot any CC'ers and had a pop at 2 Strava Segments. 7th on one spinning my little legs off on fixed, and KOM on a cheeky little sprint near work ! Knackered.

 

[MisterStan]

Light winds, didn't spot any CC'ers and had a pop at 2 Strava Segments. 7th on one spinning my little legs off on fixed, and KOM on a cheeky little sprint near work ! Knackered.

Kudos on the KOM. To quote a conversation I had this morning with @martinclive 'remember - it's just commuting!'

 

[martinclive]

Kudos on the KOM. To quote a conversation I had this morning with @martinclive 'remember - it's just commuting!'

Yeah right - it used to be - then I discovered Strava (your fault!)

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Was a bit chilly this morning at 6am, but was lovely and warm by 8am. Roads very quiet

 

[MisterStan]

Yeah right - it used to be - then I discovered Strava (your fault!)

'I'm only going to use it to compare my own performance' he said.
Now all he talks about is lead out trains and whether the wind is in the optimal direction for a segment.
Successfully converted i'd say!

 

[Keith Oates]

Coming home from work yesterday in the early afternoon the temp was 40 Deg. C, I was shattered when I got in and sat in an A/C room for about 20 mins before getting a shower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[martinclive]

'I'm only going to use it to compare my own performance' he said.
Now all he talks about is lead out trains and whether the wind is in the optimal direction for a segment.
Successfully converted i'd say!

........looks like I've been rumbled (and I would have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids!)

 

[apb]

Yesterday was the first time i took my wee man to nursery with the bike. It was a nice day, a bit chilly, but his mum still wrapped him up like it was winter. We both really enjoyed it and i think both of us wanted just to take the day off, cycle down to Porty beach and spend the day there. But we didn't

Because of this i was on my Hybrid which is a bit of a tank and on the commute home a guy on a CX/Commuter was wanting to scalp me. I decide this was good sport and applied the hammer but appearing to cycle casually . I could hear his squeaky bike and him really putting in the effort, but sorry pal maybe next time. It's the little things that keeps me entertained.

 

[fossyant]

Kudos on the KOM. To quote a conversation I had this morning with @martinclive 'remember - it's just commuting!'

Adds a bit of fun to it.