Tales from today's commute....

[Deleted member 1258]

Some car drivers, if they see half a gap they're in it like a rat up a drain pipe, pulling away from a set of traffic lights in primary I fumbled getting my foot in and a three quarters of a car length gap opened up between me and the car in front, the car behind was in it in an instant, I had to back off to avoid ending up in his boot. Apart from that a routine days commuting, cold and murky this morning, my timing spot on, as I rolled into the factory the first spots of rain started falling, dark and warm tonight, I'm nicely getting into the night riding for yet another winters commuting.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

Bizzare dream last night- I was cycling down a hill at over 50mph, tried to brake, but my brake pads melted causing the front tyre to explode in a ball of flames. No idea what Freud would make of that one!

Slightly less exciting ride in, barely managing to top 15mph. Still very windy but should be a nice tail wind heading home later after a couple of halves with a pal in Cambridge pub . ~Hopefully no melting brake pads.

Thanks for this,due to distractions of my return commute today I forgot my front brake pads are completely worn out.Will change them now.

 

[subaqua]

not tonights but Mondays ride in.

riding past Glyn hopkin on ruckholt road, cyclist in Hi viz passed me and had a good signal going for his right turn onto the cycle lane that avoids orient way junction. numpty in a capital waste van FR02 LYU doesn't see him and brakes sharpish. Cyclist makes evasive move and comes off . Van screeches off. I stop and ask if he is OK and he gets up and is , just a bit wetter than he would have liked.

I ride off and parked just over the bridge is a traffic car ! I let them know whats happened and they pull the van over 400yds down the road and have some stern words with the driver who is adamant he did nothing wrong.

 

[bicyclos]

First day with frost on the cars and colder than usual on Monday.......Well it was 5.00am start at work, started using my ultrafire torch for the dark sections. found the traffic a little rushed this last few weeks but overall a trouble free commute!

 

[subaqua]

[QUOTE 2751994, member: 1314"]Train got to Kings X at 6.34. At office to pick up bike by 6.50. Get changed. On bike. Farringdon to Waterloo just so jammed. Home by 8.30. Good fun after Waterloo. Why do people drive 4x4s in London?[/quote]
is it cos they is cockwombles ?

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Offed by another cyclist this morning!
He had obviously had enough of taking the road on his hired bike and decided to mount the kerb and join the cycle path. I saw him late, but slowed down, and unclipped one pedal, and just as I went to the left of him he just went left himself and knocked me over.
A nice traffic cone cushioned the fall, and no damage was done.
When he hired his bike they obviously never explained how to look left and right when changing direction. He never looked once all the time from when I saw him.
He must have said very sorry 15 times, and my mate I was with picked up my bike as I could not get off the floor! I got on and rode off.

 

[martint235]

A totally unremarkable commute for me. Slight drizzle, empty roads.

 

[MisterStan]

Got to Swavesey to meet the boys this morning and the buggers had left! I could just see them in the distance, pushed hard and managed to catch them up. Not as cold as I thought it would be this morning - a little over dressed, especially for a chase down!

 

[HLaB]

Got the dress a wee bit wrong wore the thin overtrousers expecting it to bucket at the end of my commute but its also turned milder and at end of my commute (just under 12miles) a sweat was starting. Never saw more than a few drops and the roads had dried out from the day before.

 

[HLaB]

This mornings commute saw me break 10,000 commuting miles for the year. Not really sure I can claim them all as commuting, maybe 10,000 miles ridden between home and work is more accurate as if I had gone just direct I would have done less than 2,000 miles by now.

Chappeau, just looked at my commutes this morning and its less than 3,000miles for me, and if I went direct it would have been less than 700miles.

 

[HLaB]

Offed by another cyclist this morning!
He had obviously had enough of taking the road on his hired bike and decided to mount the kerb and join the cycle path. I saw him late, but slowed down, and unclipped one pedal, and just as I went to the left of him he just went left himself and knocked me over.
A nice traffic cone cushioned the fall, and no damage was done.
When he hired his bike they obviously never explained how to look left and right when changing direction. He never looked once all the time from when I saw him.
He must have said very sorry 15 times, and my mate I was with picked up my bike as I could not get off the floor! I got on and rode off.

Never been offed by one but there's some random kerb jumpers out there!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Chappeau, just looked at my commutes this morning and its less than 3,000miles for me, and if I went direct it would have been less than 700miles.

if we combined my commuting miles and your leisure miles it would be well over 20,000 between us

 

[Leodis]

Back to the buses afraid for the foreseeable

The new bike just wasn't what I thought and arrived with faults so it has been picked up, hopefully with a refund on CS which will take ages, no doubt I will have a battle on my hands over it. Probs miss my target but will get out at weekends on the road bike.

 

[HLaB]

Back to the buses afraid for the foreseeable

The new bike just wasn't what I thought and arrived with faults so it has been picked up, hopefully with a refund on CS which will take ages, no doubt I will have a battle on my hands over it. Probs miss my target but will get out at weekends on the road bike.

Doesn't sound good, care to elaborate ?

 

[DCLane]

Back to the buses afraid for the foreseeable

The new bike just wasn't what I thought and arrived with faults so it has been picked up, hopefully with a refund on CS which will take ages, no doubt I will have a battle on my hands over it. Probs miss my target but will get out at weekends on the road bike.

Not good - were Ribble OK with returning?

Why not pick up something cheap to tide you over for the commuting? I'm partly using my old Raleigh Team (eBay £40) and Viking Targa (Gumtree £10) - so a cheap run-a-round must be better than the bus. Or is there a better class of bus passenger in Moortown? - Dewsbury ones are just