Tales from today's commute....

[HLaB]

Blimey, that was hard work, wind has come back and the rain this afternoon made the cycle paths interesting with the wet leaves.

My route in the morning involves a cycle path but I think I'll change it for a while :-/

 

[Ollie W]

Had another go at cycling to my ballroom lesson over the common and up the big hill at the end. It was fine except some idiot with no lights decided to indulge in SCR on a wooded track near the end. I couldn't be bothered so just used his slipstream

EDIT: Got home, went to apply for a job at Wiggle and it's already gone. Damn.

 

[Frood42]

Last night I decided to mix it up a bit and travel along the limehouse and regents canal, I think I prefer the well lit roads.
It was rather dark, my lights were probably not bright enough, but then there was a mix of people with no front lights and those with far too bright front lights that would normally be reserved for country roads at night, and then there were the joggers, it was slow going and rather more stressful than riding on the open roads.
When I got my Hope 1 sorted by Wiggle than I may venture back onto the canals, but for now I will be staying away.

The ride last night means I have done 152.5 miles since Monday.

 

[Frood42]

Rain was forecasted for this morning commute, so I chucked on my windproof/rainproof jacket, and oh boy did I sweat buckets, as it was quite a bit warmer this morning and the rain did not appear.
The coat has elasticated cuffs, so I had pools of sweat in the jacket, my fleece got really drenched, and when I got off and looked at my shorts it looked like I had either been swimming or out in the rain.

Besides all that I had quite a nice ride in.
That makes it 183 miles as of this morning, so just another 17 miles to meet my 200 mile commute target, will do that tonight and make Fri a rest day, and then probably head out at the weekend.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Great weather for a ride this morning, lovely clear skies for a bit of star gazing first thing, then when the sun came up beautiful blue sky. Wind died down from last night and was warm, shame I had to stop and come into work.

 

[Col5632]

Must be bloody invisible this morning, had a car almost fail to give way to me on a mini roundabout to which i stopped on in front of him and waved at him, how he failed to see me in my bright yellow gillet i have no idea, then 2 minutes later a young boy walked right in front of me with his 2 massive dogs, had to brake and avoid him, again baffled how he never saw me as he was on the other side of the road so surely would have looked both ways before crossing the road and some how not even seen me, even had a front and back light on this morning!

 

[EthelF]

This morning a complete numpty on a rather nice black Cube hybrid was filtering a trifle too fast down the outside of stationary traffic and aimed for a gap left by a van in front of a traffic island, when said van moved forward and the gap vanished. Fortunately the Cube had disc brakes. But I really don't know what I was thinking when I aimed for that gap. The van driver should not have been reading his notes while driving, true, but I still awarded myself the Donkey of the Day award.

 

[Frood42]

This morning a complete numpty on a rather nice black Cube hybrid was filtering a trifle too fast down the outside of stationary traffic and aimed for a gap left by a van in front of a traffic island, when said van moved forward and the gap vanished. Fortunately the Cube had disc brakes. But I really don't know what I was thinking when I aimed for that gap. The van driver should not have been reading his notes while driving, true, but I still awarded myself the Donkey of the Day award.

Gotta love traffic islands
Are you sure he didn't see you coming and decided he didn't want you cutting in and slowing him down

I quite like disc brakes, they feel a bit better to me than rim brakes.

 

[HLaB]

A beautiful ride this morning unfortunately I had a site survey at 8am so had to restrict it to 13miles. I decided to mod my route though so it advoided leave covered cycle paths, I'll probably have to mod it again if the weather changes to avoid cycle paths all together.

 

[EthelF]

Are you sure he didn't see you coming and decided he didn't want you cutting in and slowing him down

Judging by the surprised look on his face as he glanced up from his paperwork, I'd say no...
Disc brakes are good. A decent night's sleep with a toddler not crying half the night, and then being alert paying proper attention to the road is even better though!

 

[Frood42]

Judging by the surprised look on his face as he glanced up from his paperwork, I'd say no...
Disc brakes are good. A decent night's sleep with a toddler not crying half the night, and then being alert paying proper attention to the road is even better though!

Ah, I have as yet to have the pleasure of being woken up by a baby or toddler in the night, maybe one day.

 

[Andrew_P]

Looks like I might be only 3-4 weeks away from getting back on the bike, believe me I cannot wait to get back commuting driving me crazy stuck at home never will I moan about wind, rain or cold commuting is a choice and a bloody good one that is sorely missed when you can't do it!

 

[paul04]

It was damp this morning, but not raining when I set of for work, half way there and the heaven's opened, so went the short way to work, only for the rain to stop just as I got into work. shorts, legs warmers and socks were dripping wet, so left them on the radiator in the locker room to dry out, my coat is waterproof so top half was ok.
finished work at 2.30pm and the sun was shining, so a nice ride home (and all my clothes were nice and dry)
Will have to get a spare pair of waterproof trousers to keep in my backpack so don't get caught out in the rain again.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Lovely weather for the ride home and looks like the council had been in to Abbey Park and taken the wet leaves up off the paths.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Truly lovely evening tonight, overtaken by @MisterStan and Jess, it crossed my mind to catch up but realised that would never happen!!!

Them two have 3 shredded wheat !