Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Extended the route back again. Now know not to ride on the flood defences after the gritted section. Bloody muddy and slippy made for an entertaining half mile.

 

[fossyant]

Is that milk in the bottle?

Probably. I sometimes carry mile for my cuppas.

 

[potsy]

Is that milk in the bottle?

Yep, need plenty for my tea habit

 

[potsy]

Extended the route back again. Now know not to ride on the flood defences after the gritted section. Bloody muddy and slippy made for an entertaining half mile.

I'll have a look which way you went later, there are 1or2 places to avoid or treat with extreme caution

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Stopped and raised the seat on the mtb by an inch and a half on the way home. Made a good bit of difference to the ride home. I was knackered yesterday after 30 miles on this thing. I joked with Peterborough Mark as I call him about how people ride these things for fun!
Now I have mud guards its not rained either, typical!

 

[fossyant]

I'll have a look which way you went later, there are 1or2 places to avoid or treat with extreme caution

You have a choice from the Rugby Club And Golf club bridge to take the path either at the top or bottom of the flood defences. It's ok near the rugby club till after the flood system overflow, where you need to take the lower path through to Parrs wood. Got three trees to duck under too.

This mornings route from Parrs Wood is the best. Not sure if the 200 will show the 10 yard difference at the river. There is a good bit of concrete drainage system that Skolly would be happy on. I didn't want to stack it.

 

[Frood42]

Well that was much better, traffic was a bit better behaved tonight, which made for a fairly uneventful commute, nothing much to complain about at all

Except for the rather bracing wind chill along the A13\CS3.

 

[Black Country Ste]

Speakers down for the first thirty seconds if you don't like swearing:



Say what you like about my conduct, I can take it on the chin but the driver's excuses were incredible.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

Cock of a lorry driver overtakes me but makes a bad job of it at Mile End just as a ped steps off from my left lessening my space and with lorry on my right making it even tighter than it should be.Could see that the muppet would have to stop for the traffic ahead anyway so I didn't panic.Mainly ok coming home just one motorist poking his car nose out forcing me to stop as mr beemer man was right on me,causing me to glare at offending motorist but I didn't say nothing and that was that.(Actually thinking about it I think he was quite apologetic or was at least trying to smooth the transaction)Glad I didn't lose my rag really as it was a really minor incident.Also forgot the conversation with the cabbie who liked my frame lights at Southwark Bridge on the return although they were only half working.Found a faulty battery connector which means the fault isn't as bad as I expected.All will be working for tomorrows seventh commute and then I get some days off.

 

[apb]

Yay me, reached my target of 3000 miles this morning. will be happy to reach 3120 miles by years end, which will equal 60miles\week. Shouldn't be to hard

High fives all round!

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Did the ride in 1 hr 3 mins today. So thats a 15 mile ride, which means I must have gone over 15 at some point on the MTB, I am impressed!

 

[400bhp]

Hot hew:

 

[MisterStan]

Much milder this morning, actually felt a little overdressed in a summer base layer and l/s jersey!

 

[HLaB]

Yay me, reached my target of 3000 miles this morning. will be happy to reach 3120 miles by years end, which will equal 60miles\week. Shouldn't be to hard

High fives all round!

Nice one, I'm 10 miles short of 3k miles myself.

 

[Trickedem]

View: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJpm7YoqDY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DqvJpm7YoqDYcould
have been worse. Good job he wasn't wearing earphones