Tales from today's commute....

[MisterStan]

17 degrees when I left this morning! That plus me running late to meet @martinclive and a headwind to battle meant I was sweating buckets!

 

[BenM]

On today's commute I completed a PB average speed which is
however I have fewer than 20 of these rides left ever
I am relocating to near Guildford (not entirely my idea).
I guess it is time to find a new commute/ride

 

[martint235]

[QUOTE 2690197, member: 1314"]Rain started as I got through Witter Lane, up alongside the RCJ. It was dark, wet, road, spoilt with rainbow coloured oil slicks, with tippers parked up on the side waiting to unload, black cans impatient to get through. It was warm though. Roll on Winter.[/quote]
They sound like very dangerous cans to me!!

 

[Dmcd33]

My entire 8 mile commute from Clapham area to Sutton was full of diesel/petrol patches on the road. Are there that many cars leaking, or was it the same one? Can't work it out, but I did take it easy on my way in.

Road bike tyres and diesel on wet do not mix! (you probably all know that?)

 

[Ollie W]

Off sick today Still yet to take my boss's Rockhopper out for a proper ride. Still, saw a bloke having a massive rant at a Dominos car outside so maybe I'm safest up here...

EDIT: And apparently someone's tried to get into our bike shed again, jamming the lock. Joy.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Had to stop after a couple of miles and remove my jacket, very very warm this morning. Got a bit wet (but nothing like what was forecast) and still very windy. Sun is out now and apart from the wind it looks nice out there.

 

[donnydave]

Bah, people on bikes with no mud guards who pass then cut in immediately so you get a face full of spray. Too busy spitting muddy water to shout at them and then they were away. Not a great start to the day.

 

[martinclive]

As usual the forecasted Armageddon didn't come (when will I ever learn); there was a wee bit heavy rain in the early afternoon and it was dry for the pm commute. So I went for a wee leisurely ride after crawling through town and then went to a budget supermarket (Lidl) and bought a compression running base layer which should be fine for the bike

I was near Worksop golfing - and Armageddon arrived there at about 2.30pm (fortunately we finished about 2.25!) with local flooding etc was really bad - by time got back past P'boro there was almost nothing - think it was quite localized

 

[martinclive]

17 degrees when I left this morning! That plus me running late to meet @martinclive and a headwind to battle meant I was sweating buckets!

......nice to see you putting some effort in rather than cruising along looking relaxed while I am having to try hard to keep up

 

[martinclive]

Bah, people on bikes with no mud guards who pass then cut in immediately so you get a face full of spray. Too busy spitting muddy water to shout at them and then they were away. Not a great start to the day.

if it was a bloke on a green singlespeed it was not me..........oops!

 

[BSRU]

Some muppet in a Virgin Media van decided on stupid overtake at a pinch point, while I was travelling quite quickly in the pouring rain.
Their justification for such a crap manoeuvre was that I should be on the left and I should not be in the middle of the lane.
It wasn't as dangerous a manoeuvre as it could have been as I heard/saw them coming and eased off to leave some space but I should not have to especially given the weather conditions.
It this while he was smoking a roll up fag in a company vehicle, naughty naughty.

 

[benb]

Really enjoyed the light misty rain this mornring - so refreshing to cycle in.

However, I had a nobber in a BMW lean on his horn because I held him up for 5 seconds at a pinch point. Of course I cruised past him stuck in a queue another ½ mile further on, which I find is always the best riposte.

Then on a 2 lane section approaching a junction someone decided they needed to be in the same place as me, so tried to squeeze me into the kerb. Unfortunately I'm not a quantum particle able to exist in a superposition of states, so that wasn't going to work.

Had to bash on the side of her car to get her to abort. She didn't seem to think she has done anything wrong, saying "But I needed to be in that lane". Oh, right, well just drive over anything in your way then.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I hate these can't make its mind up weather days, dry when I got up, I could hear it p****** down whilst I was eating breakfast, dried up so I got the bike out and it started p**** down again, got the car out and it stopped, by then it was too late to swap back to the bike so I had to drive in, brightened up during the morning so I thought I'll get a ride in this afternoon, after all the forecast was for it to dry up, it started raining half an hour after I got in and its been raining off and on since.

 

[HLaB]

Didn't fancy cycling home into a headwind so I cycled 9miles to get a tail wind

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well what can I say, this week I felt like instead of cycling to work I have been wind tunnel testing for Trek.