Tales from today's commute....

[Twelve Spokes]

Ride in was fast for me and ride back was unexpectedly good with most tin boxes behaving themselves.

Rain as usual..

 

[Ganymede]

shockingly ****poor cycle parking unless it is in some sort of secure compound. Excpet I don't trustother cyclists not to steal things. Presume nobody consulted any cyclists. We are moving end of March. Our cycle parking provision is being spec'ed by a cyclist and signed off by another (me)

Well - I thought it looked carp - over-designed and as you say, probably not by a cyclist. Good for you getting in on the provision at your place. I wondered if the fancy designed stuff might have been created by someone who only ever rode light road bikes with minimal or no luggage - ie not the reality of commuting!

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Drafted a coach for a couple of mile tonight which was nice

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Well - I thought it looked carp - over-designed and as you say, probably not by a cyclist. Good for you getting in on the provision at your place. I wondered if the fancy designed stuff might have been created by someone who only ever rode light road bikes with minimal or no luggage - ie not the reality of commuting!

tbh, me signing it off is a bit of an abuse of process. A facipulation shall we say. But I'm project managing the move, and I'm a cyclist, and the landlord provision is shocking so when I negotiated the lease I made sure space was set aside for us to install something useful.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

very very windy, but the rain held off which was a big plus

 

[Tim Hall]

A bimble would be very pleasant. Can't do owt this weekend but what about 8th/9th?

Saturday 8th suit you?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Saturday 8th suit you?

Works for me and pass obtained from TLH.

 

[fossyant]

shockingly ****poor cycle parking unless it is in some sort of secure compound. Excpet I don't trustother cyclists not to steal things. Presume nobody consulted any cyclists. We are moving end of March. Our cycle parking provision is being spec'ed by a cyclist and signed off by another (me)

We cyclists complained. It's in a cage with ID pass swipe access but the locking points are crap. Down to space issues blah blah and getting as many spaces in there.

 

[ManiaMuse]

So, so cold and wet..

And the new mudguard that I fitted yesterday didn't stay in the right place due to my incompetence with a spanner. Luckily it didn't puncture my tyre while it was rubbing against it, I think I might have cried if I had had to fix a flat in the rain as well.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Pissed it down all the way home but the tail wind was worth it. Ran out of gears on the MTB.

I really think the Government needs to build a massive tumble dryer and put the UK in it, cause this country is actually soggy as hell.

 

[HLaB]

Two months or more without a SMIDSY, thank god I've not lost my spider sense and didn't get pi$hed. Commuting a bit late as we had a do after work, I dropped my bag off at the flat had a few cups of tea and cake before heading to the supermarket (ok it was post commute but this is the best place to post I think). On the way back, as I was passing a side street, thankfully it tingled, he's not going to stop! Thankfully too, I was in the primary and the road was quiet and I was on the fixie into a headwind, so it was easy to pull on to the wrong side of the road. Only then he saw me and started apologising, typical SMIDSY

 

[Frood42]

Rivers of water on the roads tonight in places, so much so that in some places I couldn't avoid the water and ended up getting wet feet.
Beyond that it was a nice commute.

So this month has been an easy month, with just 691 km cycled.
oh, and 102 km of running

Just waiting on a Pizza delivery
.

 

[fossyant]

Spider senses never stop, saved me earlier this week.

Thought I was doing a Good Samaritan thing telling a guy in his Hyundai cross over thingy (new) that his lights were not on. Caught him up in traffic and shouted, no lights (it was dark). Nothing. Happened to get stuck in front of him and waved at his lights and shouted twice "no lights". Get flashed for me to turn off, then the guy winds his window down. "What the fxxx are you going on about ?" I shout back " no lights". Mumble to myself "farkin idiot". He did turn them on then.

A typical downside of stupid daytime running lights, why have front LEDs and not know the rears don't work until the lights are switched on.

Can't be bothered from now on.

 

[Chris Swift]

Spider senses never stop, saved me earlier this week.

Thought I was doing a Good Samaritan thing telling a guy in his Hyundai cross over thingy (new) that his lights were not on. Caught him up in traffic and shouted, no lights (it was dark). Nothing. Happened to get stuck in front of him and waved at his lights and shouted twice "no lights". Get flashed for me to turn off, then the guy winds his window down. "What the fxxx are you going on about ?" I shout back " no lights". Mumble to myself "farkin idiot". He did turn them on then.

A typical downside of stupid daytime running lights, why have front LEDs and not know the rears don't work until the lights are switched on.

Can't be bothered from now on.

I've noticed a lot of new cars now don't have rear lights on but fronts are on I assumed this is legal for manufactures to do this???

 

[fossyant]

I've noticed a lot of new cars now don't have rear lights on but fronts are on I assumed this is legal for manufactures to do this???

Not at night.

The standard is all cars now run daytime front lights for some reason, AKA bling lights. As most dashes are back lit anyway, the drivers forget to switch on the big lights as it gets dark, as daytime lighting does not cover rear lights, for some stupid reason.

Hence why riding in traffic is getting more and more difficult for cyclists, as these daylight LEDs aren't far off a basic 3w bike LED x 30 of these bling lights on the front.