Tales from today's commute....

[apb]

Got myself in a spot of bother this morning. Was filtering between lanes when the light turned green. WVM didn't like the fact that i merged in front of him and gave me a "Beep Beep". I could sense he was pulling up beside me to exchange pleasantries, so i put my hand up and said "Sorry mate". He drove on, without referring to me as male or female genitalia.

Other than that is was pretty wet on the roads and paths. Wet feet but pleasant ride

 

[martinclive]

Well strange things are happening....



But I do think me and the MTB are an accident waiting to happen!, clipped one of the GBW gates with my hand, little finger took all the force, but I managed to keep upright and not loose too much speed!

This week is a big week for me as another milestone should be achieved tomorrow as long as I don't fall off!

Need some narrower bars on the MTB Kev (or a hacksaw!) as that is not the first offence!
The change in width from your road bike to those bars is huge - I'm sure my MTB bars are a lot narrower than yours (and those gates are nasty)
Take care out there - see you soon

 

[Frood42]

Commute 193 of the year will be remembered as me feeling ill and managing to park my dinner on the CS2 on the return better than some people park their cars.I hope commute 194 goes better for me.

Mainly the drivers have been very good recently (thankyou to all those on the CS2),only met a few dodgy beemers and an Addiscum Lee but nothing too serious.

Liked for the "Addiscum Lee"
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[Frood42]

Last nights commute saw the roads a bit greasy and wet, despite the chill it was a nice ride.

Only one twunt last night, idiot forced me to emergency brake as he just turned across traffic to turn into a side road, not impressed as I had my bright flasher on, so was clearly visible...
.

 

[Frood42]

Icy and patchy fog this morning, not a nice combination...

Had to slow right down on parts of the CS3 where they have the tramline like pavement slabs for the blind, as they were all iced up and made the back of the bike fish tail.

Took me an extra 10 mins to get to work this morning
At least there was a nice warm shower waiting for me at work
.

 

[HLaB]

A dreich grey commute but the visibilty although poor was a lot better than yesterday. Something traffic wise must of happened on the eastside of the city when I came into town it was grid locked and I had to carefully filter by a few miles of cars

 

[Andrew_P]

Wow, checked the weather +3 so thought it would be fine to go my normal route, turned off the A23 and it felt really eerie, couldn't pinpoint it but strange, ambulance came past on the other side going really slowly, then a fire engine, again slowly and occupants laughing not quite pointing at me but it felt like it, then another fire engine going slowly. This all added to my unease, turned a corner and there was an awful head on 4x4 vs a small mini sized car, but no one around it other than a police road closed sign, so I passed that and turned another corner and from then on a rough guesstimate there was 8-10 cars over 1/4 a mile either in ditches, in to each other or hedges with lots of people and Police milling around, it felt like a scene from the Walking Dead. I was riding on f'ing sheet ice, what a fool took ages for it to sink in and realise lol, so I got off and walked for 10 minutes until I got to the main road.

Will give that road a wide birth from now until Spring, combination of new road surface, exposed open fields, farmer cow shite everywhere, freezing fog with damp roads and wind chill

 

[mistral]

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Need some narrower bars on the MTB Kev (or a hacksaw!) as that is not the first offence!
The change in width from your road bike to those bars is huge - I'm sure my MTB bars are a lot narrower than yours (and those gates are nasty)
Take care out there - see you soon

LOL!
Yes I still remember that, I have a problem with spacial awareness, or just a clumsy old git !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Ice bike got its first outing of the season this morning. Set off on the normal bike, noticed all the white frost and turned around and got on the ice bike. Got a mile out and remembered I hadn't disconnected the lights off on the normal bike, so turned around and went home to sort them.

Seems a bit warmer now, so may have an extra ride at dinner time and go home and swap the bikes around

 

[Stephen C]

Nice ride this morning with a slight tailwind, only trouble was a car flicked up a stone, which hit me square in the groin

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Felt hard work this morning, thinking my thoughts were right that my bodies fighting off the lurgie germ that's cohabiting with me and the family at the mo!

 

[fossyant]

No commute. Was expecting ice today, but I spent the morning in A&E. Bloody left plum was in agony all night, even phoned out of hours. Got an ultrasound tomorrow to see what's going on. Tramadol is good stuff, can't feel anything. Recon Alpe dHuez would be a doddle today.

 

[fossyant]

Wow, checked the weather +3 so thought it would be fine to go my normal route, turned off the A23 and it felt really eerie, couldn't pinpoint it but strange, ambulance came past on the other side going really slowly, then a fire engine, again slowly and occupants laughing not quite pointing at me but it felt like it, then another fire engine going slowly. This all added to my unease, turned a corner and there was an awful head on 4x4 vs a small mini sized car, but no one around it other than a police road closed sign, so I passed that and turned another corner and from then on a rough guesstimate there was 8-10 cars over 1/4 a mile either in ditches, in to each other or hedges with lots of people and Police milling around, it felt like a scene from the Walking Dead. I was riding on f'ing sheet ice, what a fool took ages for it to sink in and realise lol, so I got off and walked for 10 minutes until I got to the main road.

Will give that road a wide birth from now until Spring, combination of new road surface, exposed open fields, farmer cow s***e everywhere, freezing fog with damp roads and wind chill

Blimey. Time for studded tyres then, you could have pulled a wheelie as you cycled past.

 

[Andrew_P]

No commute. Was expecting ice today, but I spent the morning in A&E. Bloody left plum was in agony all night, even phoned out of hours. Got an ultrasound tomorrow to see what's going on. Tramadol is good stuff, can't feel anything. Recon Alpe dHuez would be a doddle today.

Not having much luck with your plumbing, certainly put me off ever having the snip, GWS