Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

I have warm summer, cold summer, autumn, winter, and flipping cold winter clothing. Too much kit

 

[Nocode]

Saw a Cycling RLJ'r get pulled up by the fuzz in Catford.... serves him right. The dope overtook the fuzzy car to RLJ....

Lol, oh dear that isn't good.

I know RLJ is against the law fullstop - but do others do so when it's safe (i.e. traffic not joining at traffic lights from other directions, for example a pedestrian crossing where there's clearly no pedestrians crossing etc)?

I find there's such variability in traffic lights/junctions that cyclists RLJ at. Some will stop at every red light irregardless, others go through lights where there may be traffic joining from the right only, others crazilly go across cross-road junctions, or push right out onto the edge of the yellow box looking for a gap!

 

[Stromtrooper]

Nice commute in today. No idiots in cages or stealth cyclists intent on killing me. Just a crisp 19 mph headwind

Though I do get it as a tail wind tonight
Just have to get another pedal as my left ones creak is driving me mad

 

[trampyjoe]

I know RLJ is against the law fullstop - but do others do so when it's safe

No, it is against the law.

 

[potsy]

I have warm summer, cold summer, autumn, winter, and flipping cold winter clothing. Too much kit

3/4 of my wardrobe is taken up with cycling gear now, used to be golf stuff, that's all been binned

Tomorrow is looking wet early and nice by lunch time so it's clothing for every occasion in the paniers.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A slightly different commute his morning, I had to drop the car in for service on the way in and collect it on the way home, bike in car, drive to garage, bike out of car hand keys in and cycle to work, repeated in reverse on the way home, gave me a slightly longer commute, it was also the first dark commute of this winter, I'm sure first of many.

 

[martint235]

Horrendous traffic this morning because of an accident, wet and a headwind!!!

 

[Beebo]

first visit from the fairy in months this morning. Never a nice thing to have to fix a puncture especially when its cold and damp. I'm sure everyone does it already but just in case people don't, always run your fingers inside the tyre as well as the outside. i found a large flint embedded inside which would have caused a second puncture 10 minutes later.

 

[ianrauk]

Puncture for me also this morning. But noticed it before I left the house. All fixed within 5 minutes.
Was howling a rainy gale when I woke up. Nasty outside. Buy heavens above if it didn't stop raining by the time I left. Second time this has happened this week. Was still blustery and very wet, mucky roads and not helped by spray from lorries and 4x4's. Very filthy bike....

 

[400bhp]

3/4 of my wardrobe is taken up with cycling gear now, used to be golf stuff, that's all been binned

Tomorrow is looking wet early and nice by lunch time so it's clothing for every occasion in the paniers.

Golf stuff..

:thud:

 

[400bhp]

Set off 20 mins late (7:20am), boy what a difference the traffic density is. I'm glad it was a one off. The cars slow me down

Had some pleb try and overtake me outside St Peters Square in the centre of Manchester, within 20 yards of a crossing. Pointless.

 

[martint235]

Horrendous traffic this morning because of an accident, wet and a headwind!!!

Return home was bathed in sunshine and hardly any traffic as I was against the flow

 

[J.Primus]

Traffic was as stationary as usual today but much easier to weave through. Also recent pants weather seems to be chipping away at the fair weather cyclists which meant I got my favourite spot back in the lock up at work

 

[BSRU]

Had a cyclist try and get a free ride up a drag into the headwind this morning.
I think he mistook my high cadence as meaning I was putting in lots of effort.
As soon as the road flattened out, despite not feeling great with a head cold, put it on a big chain ring and sprinted away, surprisingly easily

 

[benb]

I was really grumpy this morning after a rather poor nights sleep (thanks baby!) but there's nothing like a nice bike ride in to cheer you up before work.