Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

on for the ride home, added a mile on at the end just cos I could

A whole mile....ooh you devil you..

 

[glenn forger]

It's so warm, cycling with just a shirt on and started sweating after 3 miles.

 

[glenn forger]

and trousers, before some smart xxxxx pipes up..

 

[Dan_h]

I nearly ran into another cyclist this morning, I was a couple of cars back from the front of a queue of traffic, he filtered to the front. The cars passed him and I caught up with him but did not try to pass due to heavy traffic passing me close on the right. Cruising along in single file he suddenly slows and moves right, no signal mind, then slows further swings back to the left by now with confused cars and a confused me behind him. He suddenly pulls over and stops, I had to move right but as we had slowed there was enough room. As I passed he said something that I think was "Can I lend you something..." but was a bit lost in the traffic noise... all in all a most perplexing moment, why the sudden stop? What was he saying? Could he not have signalled so those of us behind knew what he was doing?... very odd. Perhaps he thought I was wheel sucking him? a mystery!!

Lovely day out there though

 

[Arjimlad]

A lovely ride in but some bad driving.. Mondeo pulling out of a t-junction into my path, saw me at the last moment & did an emergency stop. He hadn't cleared the condensation off his side windows so hadn't seen me even with 2 lights on... and then a young woman driver in Skoda Fabia couldn't be bothered to slow down so overtook me into the path of an oncoming MPV, who had to stop to avoid a collision. No excuse.

A bit of SCR too - a fast commuter was on my back wheel all the way down the A38 though, which made me speed along somewhat.. looking forward to uploading that segment to Strava later on !

 

[kipster]

Early commute, cold enough to wish I'd worn a cap under the helmet (being bald there is no insulation). It was darkish, no cars but a few cyclists, all without lights. Seemed to have loads of energy for the ride home so made the most of it, a small breeze on my back helped propel me along.

 

[ianrauk]

Can't believe I am cycling home in October, in the dark, in just short sleeves and sweating like the proverbial piggy. Mild weather is an understatement.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Can't beleive I am cycling home in October, in the dark, in just short sleeves and sweating like the proverbial piggy. Mild weather is an understatement.

earlier this week I was using a summer top, this morning it was cold enough for the winter jacket and cold hands, tonight it was too warm for the jacket, I'll be glad when it settles down and gets proper cold.

 

[stowie]

Odd day today. Everywhere that normally is jammed with traffic seemed to be pretty empty whilst there were jams in odd places for no particular reason. Commercial Road at around 5:30pm seemed almost completely deserted until Aldgate when it is normally tailed back onto the A10.

It also seemed to be the day for red light jumping by vehicles. A good number of cars and vans went over the red (not amber) and a black cab went through a blatant red overtaking the left turn traffic and then forced their way left after the junction. Finally, I stopped at a red light in E17 and the car behind me went around me and jumped the light so late that the green crossing light was on. People were starting to cross at the time. Unfortunately my camera was out at that time otherwise I would have roadsafed - it was idiotic.

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Rain had stopped near enough for when I left thankfully, hammered it down overnight, very dark this morning though. If the weathers to be believed, Monday may be epic, with gusts of up to 70 mph lol

 

[BSRU]

Local traffic lighter than usual as the schools are on holiday.

As I approached a mini-RAB, with a car waiting to enter from my right, notice an car approach from the opposite direction, it indicates to turn left into the road I am going to turn into. God knows why the muppet indicated as he just drove straight across the mini-RAB and almost caused an accident as the car to my right was starting to move forward(assuming the recently turned on indicator meant they were turning left and NOT going straight on).

 

[Frood42]

Nice uneventful commute last night, to complete my 200miles of the week, so no commute this morning, as Fri is rest day.

Had a suicidal ped not looking where he was going, but that seems to be London, and he got a nice fright when I gave a loud shout which stopped him in his tracks

Looking at the weather for Mon we have up to 55 mph winds forecasted, I am in two minds about whether to do my now normal 50 miles on that day, or to cut it short.

Could be fun on the quieter parts of the cycle super highways I use, but a bit less so on some of the busier roads, I shall have to see how the weekend pans out.

 

[HLaB]

Just a short early commute for me in the p!ssing rain (nothing) notable just I wanted to catch up some hours after having dissappeared early the last two evenings

 

[Beebo]

Very dark this morning when I left.
Picked up my first puncture since I bought new tyres back in February.
I managed to snap 2 of my 3 tyre levers trying to get the tyre off, not good, the plastic must have become weak and brittle over the summer.
Once I got the tyre off I noticed that the tube had been repatched 4 times so I binned it, it owned me nothing.

 

[potsy]

Wimped out today, mainly as I'm still not 100% after the man flu and didn't fancy getting a soaking

Will do better next week