Tales from today's commute....

[Frood42]

I'm not happy about what I said when the driver pulled out and don't like effing and blinding in the street but genuinely thought I was going to hit the car. I don't understand what wasn't acceptable about talking to the driver. I was about as polite as I could manage and wary of keeping the moral high ground, stuck to the facts and didn't insult or threaten. The pointy stuff as I moved away, unnecessary but I think harmless. I'd just sat stewing at that red light. I couldn't hear over traffic but the rear cam shows her opening the window and calling out at me. Neither camera picked it up but she was was pointing at the 'bus only' bit I had been waiting in, which nicely brings me onto that.

They're really only there to reach the redundant toucan controls. Am I expected to go through the cycle lane on a green light and if not why shouldn't I be able to wait in the bus only on red? Besides, they're lethal conflict generators. In my direction of travel cyclists the junction narrows drastically forcing cyclists to move into the path of traffic crossing illegally. Even bus drivers take liberties so it's safer to wait there and take primary through the junction.

If it turned out that cycles genuinely are prohibited from that section and it isn't just poor road design/signage, and I got a fixed penalty, I think I'd have a strong case for appeal (IANAL!).

Yes, it looked close, seeing it on camera to in person is different, hence the questions.

If it's Bus Only as signed (cannot see otherwise) and they provided a cycle farcility then it was designed to be that way. Just be careful about that, as I see no case for appeal, as you are knowingly ignoring the road markings. Not sure, or don't like it, or feel it is unsafe, try your council. Lets not give people like that extra ammo.

Sorry to get hung up on that, but it sort of distracts from the really crappy pull out.

I hope the rest of your commute went better.
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[Frood42]

Nice relaxed commute tonight.

Only the one bad driver who couldn't wait one more second and decided to pull across in front of me while I was in primary, thankfully brakes were covered, and he got called an "idiot".
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[MichaelO]

Stil quite warm this morning - over dressed yesterday & sweated all the way home. Could have gone with shorts this morning, but stuck with longs. Only incident was an idiotic cyclist in Tooting jumping up onto the curb, to overtake a dumper truck & jumped back on the road in front of it.

 

[BSRU]

Oh dear, a poor cyclist stuck behind a guy on a tourer(me) with big fat panniers on a shared path who is not willing to ride quickly on shared paths.
The stuck cyclist seemed to weave around looking for somewhere to blast past but on a narrow shared path they do not exist.
Got to the road, slight drag for a few hundred metres and wannabe speed merchant cannot even keep up and me feeling like crap as well(still not 100% and 41km into my ride)

 

[400bhp]

I stopped to help a forlorn cyclist at the side of the road - he's only not gone and tightened his BB when he changed it, so it had worked loose. I dunno, these DiY'ers..

@Leaway2

 

[MisterStan]

Mild again, worked up a good sweat both last night and this morning. Did the commute this morning in under an hour for the 18 miles, which i'm pretty happy with for this time of year.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Saying it was misty is an understatement. Even the cars were going half their normal speed out on the country lanes. Cree light couldn't even penetrate the mist, hugged the inside white line for a fair few miles, cursing whenever it disappeared.

 

[Beebo]

misty, and very mild, glad I went for the gilet option.
Got a puncture early on, but failed to put the tyre back into the rim properly, had to stop again as the tyre was bulging! overall delays of 20mins, not happy.

 

[Frood42]

Missed the mist, and it felt noticeably warmer this morning, meaning my continuing insistence to wear shorts is paying off
It was lovely and quiet on most of the roads, unusually so in some places.

A mostly uneventful commute, I wish every morning was as quiet as this one was...
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[Steve Saunders]

was 6c when I went to the shed to get the bike out ... so I took the road bike again, instead of the winter bike with spiked tyres.
I have a 20 mile commute, and by the time I'd done about 12 miles the temperature had dropped to about 1c and a section of country road (one of these side roads that cars don't generally take) had started to ice over and all the little puddles had frozen - so black ice everywhere. Had to slow right down and took it really easy on that stretch. Regretting the choice of bike this morning, hoping it warms up a few degrees by 5pm.

 

[potsy]

Bit early setting off today so did an extra 2 miles around the local estate (yes that one @fossyant) then a lap of the industrial estate to pass another few minutes, all helps to get nearer my yearly goal

 

[HLaB]

It was a very mild here this morning and although a bit driech not too misty by the time I set of at 5-10 past 8am. Nothing significant happened except for cars holding me up and I walked the bike by roadworks, which I don't think the Audi driver who passed me 2minutes later liked more likely he didn't even notice me just like he didn't notice the red light.
Looks like it'll be even more dreich tonight

 

[fimm]

@Trickedem is that a proper (almost) segregated cycling place? It looks very slightly more "Dutch" than almost anything I've seen in the UK...

 

[MisterStan]

driech

Eh?

 

[Trickedem]

@Trickedem is that a proper (almost) segregated cycling place? It looks very slightly more "Dutch" than almost anything I've seen in the UK...

Sort of, but it doesn't last very long and the bus stops are on the left. Not a bad effort though. It's in Woolwich