Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

30 miler or so today. Long route into office, then out this afternoon into the City to get some signatures on some audit documents, then jumped on bike again and off to our auditors to drop the documents off. Bloody security man in the posh office block wouldn't take delivery of the envelope. There I am stood in Lycra with the bike outside unlocked, one eye on the bike, one on the guy. Eventually I persuaded him to take the document, phone upstairs and get someone to collect it. I wasn't leaving the bike anywhere. Then back out of the city and home.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well its official, the Guinness Book of Records have confirmed a world record set for the Cambridge to S Ives commute by MTB Event. A record of 58 minutes set by Kevin Long. He is said to be over joyed. 'I got into a chain gang with 2 others and hanged in there did my turn on the front', 'I never knew chain gangs included MTB's but it was done tonight'

His wife was apparently heard saying 'Your home early, you tea isn't ready yet!'

He said it put it all down to that extra 1 and a half inches.

 

[Leaway2]

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

All sorted now. Back on it today. Thread lock on order! Thanks for stopping but a tow would have been nice though

 

[apb]

a heavy dinner, a few drinks, little sleep, head wind, an uphill commute.

 

[BSRU]

Surprisingly little traffic around this morning, usually Friday morning there as loads of drivers in a mad rush.

 

[Frood42]

A nice pootle on the commue last night.
Nothing major to complain about

Roads were fairly quiet.

Got in a bit of SCR with a bloke on a road bike, he got dropped
Not seen him before and the odd road bike I do see often nail me on that bit of road where I overtook him.
He did a slightly dodgy undertake at a junction with a slight uphill where I had taken primary to stop close passes, so I tucked in behind as he went by, waited until the cars had cleared, then sailed past, vvrrrooooommmm

He must be new to the commute to let a fat guy on a hybrid (with lockable front suspension) pass him
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[HLaB]

A fast commute due mainly to the lack of traffic, so when I passed the last roundabout (out of town) I decided to go for it and the only thing I encountered was a large quarry lorry at a junction (let it went first, even though I had priority and he had acknowledged me as I wanted to draft it fo a bit back in to the head wind). Back in town I slowed down again but as before there was an absense of traffic and it was still relatively quick. A bit on this morning perhaps the overtrousers were a bad idea but they kept my office trousers clean and it was fun. Training had been cancelled last night (most folk didnt fancy the greasy roads in the dark), so I went out for a fast/slow 18miler (rather than a continuously fast session) and a 10miles or 10 inches TT on the rollers (26.2mph) so I had plety of energy in my legs today; hope I feel the same way tonight!

 

[HLaB]

Surprisingly little traffic around this morning, usually Friday morning there as loads of drivers in a mad rush.

Ditto, is there something I didn't know

 

[Frood42]

Lovely and quiet on the slightly smaller roads this morning, its almost like the schools are off
Apart from that it was an ok commute, wasn't too cold, so the new shorts were a good buy the other week.

One thing did annoy me, a motorcycle officer had pulled a car over today, and the car driver decided to park right across the cycle/pedestrian crossing.
It didn't look like he had broken down and it looked like the officer was giving him a ticket.
I have to say it wasn't a problem for me, I got off the bike and walked around the small gap the car had left, but it does irritate me that people think it is ok to just block pedestrian access ways/crossings like that.

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[Supersuperleeds]

Front wheel slide this morning, took a right hand bend too tightly and away it went, just as I was thinking I'm going off here, the wheel gripped and the bike righted itself. Six months ago I would have panicked and been off. Other than the peanut in a Jag coming straight across me on a crossroads a nice uneventful ride into work. Wind has picked up again as well.

 

[jagman.2003]

Ditto, is there something I didn't know

Same here, had only 10 cars pass me in about 5 miles.

 

[jagman.2003]

Steady ride in this morning. I thought my legs were a bit underpowered, until I realised I had a headwind..!
Getting the hang of the layers again this morning. Only taken me two months. Just a mild sweat.
Hoping this mornings headwind will be still be there for a tailwind ride home later.

 

[MisterStan]

The Claud had an overnight deflation, so being a lazy git, I chucked the pannier contents into a rucksack and jumped on the best bike. Good pace all the way in, apart from a short period where I chatted with @kevin_cambs_uk (on his still gleaming MTB) and the purple Gazelle guy.

 

[HLaB]

Front wheel slide this morning, took a right hand bend too tightly and away it went, just as I was thinking I'm going off here, the wheel gripped and the bike righted itself. Six months ago I would have panicked and been off. Other than the peanut in a Jag coming straight across me on a crossroads a nice uneventful ride into work. Wind has picked up again as well.

Nicely recovered! I had never lost a front wheel until this year, I've lost it twice now Fortunately pulling off from nearly stationery

 

[potsy]

Seems like everyday there are a new set of roadworks on my commute, this time it's on the main road from gatley to Cheadle, temporary lights and a narrow road meant even my best filtering only got me halfway up the queue.

Bike looks like it's been off roading for a month instead of 3 commutes on the roads