Tales from today's commute....
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
Eurgh. those steel plates scare me enough in the wet, without the gap down the middle.
hennbell
Guru
- Location
- Lloydminster, Alberta , Canada
So cold out this morning that the iPhone froze, GPS data gone..
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
bloody spoke snapped in the rear wheel, well its got another 17 days to go before it can be sent to the menders!
400bhp
Guru
Good ride home - adrenalin kicked in after 3 dumbass driving bits in about 1 minute of each other around Dunham. 1st a close pass by some twunt when the road was clear 100 yds further ahead, then second twunt overtakes me going past a junction on the right (pish poor driving). I turn into road, cars parked down one side, twunt #3 decides to beep cos he can't get past :violins:. Balls to this, I ride in the middle of the road, twunt man can wait. He then goes past and gets held up by a driver doing c. 25mph on a country lane for the next 1.5 miles. 
Did he beep the driver in front - course not
Did he beep the driver in front - course not
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Nothing much happened this morning except the roundabout I was going to take was clogged up so I doubled back and took the ped/cycle underpass. Practically every comute this year I've met rediculous ques and had to filter or double back, why do folk expose themselves to that every day. Again nothing much happened at night other than there was little traffic.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Seemed to be the day for idiots. Short ish route home, lurgy not gone and feel goosed.
Spartak
Powered by M&M's
- Location
- Bristolian
Good ride into work on MTB this evening 
Rain forecast for the morning .... I don't care !
Rain forecast for the morning .... I don't care !
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Second good deed of the day, ish.
Came back via a long traffic strewn bit of road and passed a couple of cyclists, mainly lit ok. Then came up to another who's rear light was a bit crap, I could only pick out ninja. Anyway, said bike has a child seat on with a kid on board.
Dad mode kicks in.
Pulled alongside the rider (my million watt system on) and said 'excuse me, not being rude or anything, but I can't see your rear light' (best posh voice from a Manchester Lycra lout). Got a garbled excuse about a bracket being loose yadda yadda (it wasn't). Then I said "well I am just concerned".
Where kids are involved... I can't let that go. he wasn't some yob either.
Came back via a long traffic strewn bit of road and passed a couple of cyclists, mainly lit ok. Then came up to another who's rear light was a bit crap, I could only pick out ninja. Anyway, said bike has a child seat on with a kid on board.
Dad mode kicks in.
Pulled alongside the rider (my million watt system on) and said 'excuse me, not being rude or anything, but I can't see your rear light' (best posh voice from a Manchester Lycra lout). Got a garbled excuse about a bracket being loose yadda yadda (it wasn't). Then I said "well I am just concerned".
Where kids are involved... I can't let that go. he wasn't some yob either.
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martinclive
Über Member
- Location
- Fens, Cambridge
Zombie pedestrians this morning - headphones in - crossing the road without looking
.and as @MisterStan pointed out - they don't even pay road tax
.and as @MisterStan pointed out - they don't even pay road tax
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
I think it was "idiots R us" today. 3 people undertook me in the turn left lane, while I was doing the speed limit behind a car in the straight on lane. They then proceeded to then cut up the car in front of me causing them to jam the brakes on & come to a near stop. I was NOT impressed at having to get back up to 30mph again.
.Christopher
Über Member
incident-packed for once: one close pass, swerved to miss a ped on the cyclepath, waved an artic out of a side road (after checking behind for other traffic, natch) i love doing that, went over broken glass on the cyclepath grr, saw some dangerous cycling - guy goes around a junction on the wrong side of the road then moves left into the path of an innocent motorist - car had to brake hard to avoid a collision - guy had all the gear and good lights but still rode like an idiot - I then sprinted past him to get away from him
OP
OP
martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
Wheeled the replacement SS out of the conservatory this morning. "Ooh rubbing at the front that's a bit weird". I then noticed the front tyre had come away from the rim so deflated it, pressed the tyre in all round, re-inflated and the tyre popped off again. Had a closer look and part of the rubber had come away from the beading. So repacked all my commuting bag into one suitable for riding Lelly and brought Lelly in again. Slow and sure due to the gout that's still lurking in my foot but got to work ok in the end.
