Tales from today's commute....

[Andrew_P]

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

trouble is 13 miles of the 15 is on main A roads, I normally mange to just lose 1-2 weeks a years due to conditions being too dodgy, that's normally during a snow fall then waiting for it to clear.

 

[fossyant]

trouble is 13 miles of the 15 is on main A roads, I normally mange to just lose 1-2 weeks a years due to conditions being too dodgy, that's normally during a snow fall then waiting for it to clear.

Always room for an N+1. I've only used my ice bike once, not because it was icy, but it was the first day back commuting following my op, and it's easier to take it off road and just enjoy the scenery. The only icy day we've had, I was on 23mm tyres. I was OK but my lad crashed and burned cycling to school on his MTB

 

[glenn forger]

mistral, that is a lovely shot, just liking your post wasn't enough.

 

[BSRU]

+11 when I left the house, almost like summer.
Unfortunate to meet a complete urban cockwomble this morning, as I turned right at a mini-RAB he just kept on going, because he was not paying attention, his head was turned to left as he was in conversation with the passenger. Luckily one of us was paying attention.

Then I was scalped but noticed the guy was not pedalling and it sounded like he was riding a moped, completely illegal but it confused white van man as he could not seem to understand how a "bicycle" was travelling at about 30mph with the rider not pedalling

 

[jagman.2003]

Another fine ride home with tail wind. A roadie scooted past me 5mins into the commute ( I had yet to warm up ofcourse).
No communication as he went past.
I accepted it as balance for my mornings overtaking success.
But as we hit an incline I started to gain on him again. I realised he was a one minute wonder & was slowing after the overtake.
I'm sure there's an abbreviation on here for this type of maneuver. Well that was enough for me to retake the position.
Once more the mountain barge surged past, fat tyres singing a happy song. After I got ahead I immediately turned off....

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Lovely and warm but a brutal southerly wind. Decided not to do my outbound route direct into the wind, so mapped a route in my head whilst riding, thought it would be about 40 miles, ended up being 47, so arrived at work a bit later than usual

 

[Frood42]

Bus commute for me this morning
Just as the weather was warming back up as well.

It's our work xmas meal this evening, so having my "rest" day today, and then I shall be heading out at the weekend.

Hopefully for those of you in London the rain will hold off on tonights commute
.

 

[potsy]

I went past an old-ish guy yesterday (not you fossy) and said hello, down to the lights stayed about 3 cars back from the front as they were about to change to green, old guy mounts the pavement to go left and almost jumps back onto the road in front of a car
It's not just the young that are daft

Rained all the way home too, light drizzly stuff only though, no waterproofs but only ended up as wet as I would have from sweat if I did have them

 

[HLaB]

Nothing much to report on my commute, except unlike yesterday the roads were quiet traffic wise, and it was a bit damp again and I wasn't going fast enough to notice the wind.

 

[fossyant]

I went past an old-ish guy yesterday (not you fossy)

Your tyres are going down next time !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Just spotted, this mornings ride took me over 1,000 hours of riding per Strava for the year. Seems wrong as mycyclinglog only has 839 hours?

 

[fossyant]

Just spotted, this mornings ride took me over 1,000 hours of riding per Strava for the year. Seems wrong as mycyclinglog only has 839 hours?

Strava can sometimes count 'standing time' in the equation, rather than just moving time !

 

[HLaB]

Just spotted, this mornings ride took me over 1,000 hours of riding per Strava for the year. Seems wrong as mycyclinglog only has 839 hours?

Thats quite a discrepency but Strava doesn't take into account stop time like the GPS and other sites too (often for me it shows a ride being 3-5mins longer than GC). It may also (Strava) be reporting total time, rather than riding time (a few times I've got to my desk and forgot to switch the gps off, so my circa 55mins trip is 7hrs )

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Strava can sometimes count 'standing time' in the equation, rather than just moving time !

Thats quite a discrepency but Strava doesn't take into account stop time like the GPS and other sites too (often for me it shows a ride being 3-5mins longer than GC). It may also (Strava) be reporting total time, rather than riding time (a few times I've got to my desk and forgot to switch the gps off, so my circa 55mins trip is 7hrs )

Mycyclinglog is obviously right, otherwise I am that slow I might as well walk

Done the forgot to turn the gps off trick a few times

 

[Stephen C]

Terrible ride, had another very near miss at the same roundabout I had on a few weeks ago, car coming on from the left far too fast and not seeing me, but this time I was already past the turning, he must have been mm from my back wheel.

I know it was their fault, but there must be something I can do to be more visible from the side as this one shook me up even more than the last