Tales from today's commute....

[Twelve Spokes]

Windy on the way in,worse on the way back,was a bit hairy till I struggled onto the Mile End Road,then I went like a rocket.Cross winds were a real scare.Had to get off of the road at Upper Thames Street,that road is dangerous at the best of times.Wouldn't want to do that sort of commute too often.Hope today's commute is more peaceful.Blown all over the road at the LWT building

 

[BSRU]

Lovely last commute into work of the year, past 1,000km for the month and 13,000km for the year
Just went to the works canteen for a celebratory fry up.
Now just a short ride home and it's all over for the year(unless I can manage to get some leisure cycling in over the holiday).

 

[DCLane]

Nice, clear commute; extended via Wakefield. Very little traffic and what there was wasn't going quickly.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Flooded roads and a strong wind made it a good work out this morning, three commuting rides left for the year, fingers crossed I should hit 12,000 commuting miles on New Years Eve

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Lovely last commute into work of the year, past 1,000km for the month and 13,000km for the year
Just went to the works canteen for a celebratory fry up.
Now just a short ride home and it's all over for the year(unless I can manage to get some leisure cycling in over the holiday).

You got that target bang on

 

[mistral]

Queens Ride Putney SW13

 

[BSRU]

You got that target bang on

Just glad to get there after missing so many commute days in November due to illness.
If I hadn't had such a bad November I would have been reached my target weeks ago, thankfully the weather has been pretty good for a December.

 

[Twelve Spokes]

Trees are so yesterday.

 

[Christopher]

on a more postive note, I have been using the Hope Vision 1 as the every-day commute light and am extremely pleased with it - good light, beam spread and long duration with good NimH batteries, so many thanks to @ianrauk and others on here for the advice re lights, it is some of the best £ I have ever spent on bike stuff. Heck, even used it as a hand torch in a cave the other day, it was certainly as bright as my caving lamp!

 

[Twelve Spokes]

on a more postive note, I have been using the Hope Vision 1 as the every-day commute light and am extremely pleased with it - good light, beam spread and long duration with good NimH batteries, so many thanks to @ianrauk and others on here for the advice re lights, it is some of the best £ I have ever spent on bike stuff. Heck, even used it as a hand torch in a cave the other day, it was certainly as bright as my caving lamp!

Looks like a good light,do they do a version for 18650 batteries as im a great fan of the 18650's.My two front lights run on these.So do my converted rear lights,come to that.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very very hard work riding home this afternoon, wind is just mental.

 

[Telemark]

I started my ride with out injuries... I finished the ride with 3 broken toes & a fractured rib.

Considering I was wiped out by a fairly large tree I call that a WIN!

Only 'liked' this as you are OK(-ish), a really lucky escape ...
Hope you heal fast and that the next couple of weeks aren't too painful, get well soon!

 

[Black Country Ste]

I stayed at the parents last night so commuted from there. 5.5mi in 19 minutes. Nice change to the usual 1.6mi in six or seven. Two close passes on the way in and another coming home. I caught the third driver and apparently it was my problem. "You should keep to the kerb and not stick to the middle of the road. You're not riding properly."

I was no more than three feet from the kerb.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A disappointing final days commuting for 2013, I was in the car, it was still wet and windy when I went out this morning, so yesterday marked the end of the cycle commuting for this year, the 34tth year I've been doing it, I came back to cycling after a break in 1979 and have been cycle commuting every year since, I've had the car since August 2012 but have only been using it for commuting about once a week most weeks so I'm still using the bike for most of the commuting.

 

[DCLane]

Last commute of the year, so it was 'extended'. A total of 28.5 miles done rather than the usual 10, almost all into a headwind. However, I avoided the rain (just) http://www.strava.com/activities/101725216

Now just 43 miles to go to hit the revised target for 2013 (6641 miles - I did 6640 miles in 2012, which was double the 3320 of 2011).