Tales from today's commute....

[Origamist]

Warm at 5am this morning, took a few detours and added nearly 3 miles to my normal journey

Warm at 7.45 too. I had to discard my arm warmers and gilet and was still dripping when I got to work...I am going to shave my head tonight as my long hair is adding to heat build up!

Take advantage of the balmy weather though Potsy, later in the week is looking a bit nippy!

 

[potsy]

Just wait, you won't be used to the northern winters will you?

Saying that I've seen a few follically challenged people today wearing woolly hats

 

[fossyant]

Frosty mornings are awesome.

 

[HLaB]

Got my first beep for a while today (and you guessed it from WVM); I stopped him for 2secs from joining the back of a queue by cycling just outside a cycle lane passed park cars (cruel aren't I). Its also the closest pass I've had for a while from the same said idiot I used the smile and wave response, I hope it flummuxed him.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Please see this.

And I chuffin hate patchy fog.

 

[wilkotom]

It had to happen at some point.... Coming southbound down Carshalton Road here, I took primary as I often do as the road's quite narrow and there was a lot of oncoming traffic. Certainly not enough space to overtake safely - I've had idiots nearly hit oncoming cars trying to get past me on that stretch before.

Doing 18-20mph, I'm aware of someone honking their horn 2 or 3 cars back. Turned off into Goat road and got overtaken by a white van, the driver yelling something unintelligible at me. Caught up with him at the lights and he yelled at me again, this time making sure I heard that if I got in his way again he'd knock me down and I wouldn't be getting up again soon. Whether he meant with his fist or his van I don't know. Either way I was still shaking when I got home.

 

[400bhp]

18 deg on the way home. Shorts and t shirt and nowt else.

It's mid October

 

[BSRU]

Bright(eventually), sunny(eventually) and warm, probably the last of the year and only 54 more commute days left in 2013.

 

[mangid]

Bright(eventually), sunny(eventually) and warm, probably the last of the year and only 54 more commute days left in 2013.

Saw my the first Father Christmas of season going up on Saturday ...

 

[BSRU]

Saw my the first Father Christmas of season going up on Saturday ...

Christmas themed crap items already in Sainsburys, competing with all the Halloween crap items.

 

[Frood42]

[QUOTE 2697720, member: 1314"]‘tis has been a week of, so far, lights. Was spotted by the rider as I look d at his rear wheel at Tooting Bec yesterday. It was like he had another rim attached to his spoke, with red lights. [/quote]

RevoLights are one type:
http://www.pedal-pedal.co.uk/revolights/

Or these are different, some DIY ones I saw on the internet, not my bike.

 

[Frood42]

Chilly in the shorts, fairly uneventful commute.
Saw a bloke on a tandem taking a young girl to school (don't see that too often on the CS3).

 

[ianrauk]

Really nice sunny, blue skies and warm morning in Londinium. The commute only spoiled by so much bloody traffic. For some reason South East London has attracted more then it's fair share of road works

 

[sazzaa]

Beautiful day here, was blinded most of the way in by low winter sun.

 

[HLaB]

A fast last half of the commute, cruised by another cyclist who didn't like it but instead of coming by drafted me for a mile and half. I was wearing work shirt and trowsers and didn't want to build up a sweat but when we came to the town bridge hill, I continued at the same pace and shook him off