Tales from today's commute....

[Ganymede]

Check your hubs, freewheel and bottom bracket after riding through a flood. They don't like it. You may also have a fair amount of water in the frame now.

Thanks fossy, I dried it off and gave it the once over. No water in the frame it seems.

 

[BSRU]

Lovely commute in until about a mile from work when the PF struck, a short walk into work, cup of tea now I am ready to change the tube in the warm.

Amazingly for a Monday the bike still looks clean after the ride in.

 

[mangid]

Wake up, look at phone, Google is helpfully telling me that I should have woken up at 2.40 if I was going to make my appointment ......

Google calendar had my daughters trip to the British museum in it, and Google had helpfully figured out what looked like quite a nice cycle route into Central London, clearly knows me too well.

I don't actually recall telling it that my preferred mode of transport was cycling, so some seriously clever stuff going on, it's even taken to guessing when I'll take the longer route home.

 

[HLaB]

A bit chillier today but that was about the only thing notable in my 4.2miles.

 

[fossyant]

Ice bike today, side roads were dodgy. Made a change - won't say nice as the bumpy off road route didn't impress my dodgy bits.

 

[ianrauk]

Quite mild this morning. Slightly damp roads and thankfully no rain, though it looks like it's saving itself for the commute home.

Traffic though.. blimey.. I think SE London must have some gravitational pull for every car in London

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Ice bike today, side roads were dodgy. Made a change - won't say nice as the bumpy off road route didn't impress my dodgy bits.

Same here re the ice bike. I would say 99% of the ride was clear, but rather safe than sorry. Looking at the forecast it might be a full week of the ice bike

 

[400bhp]

Ice bike today, side roads were dodgy. Made a change - won't say nice as the bumpy off road route didn't impress my dodgy bits.

Never mind side roads, main roads were dodgy.

Hit the deck trying to turn right onto Longley Lane from Palatine Rd. All the way down Sale Road I could feel the tyres slipping. Kind of knew it was coming so, through luck or judgement (don't know which) had a quite a soft landing. Chain came off and pump came off but that was about it.

I was tempted to walk to work after that, ended up going very slow (even pavement cycling along sharston rd as the road had the glass sparkly look).

 

[fossyant]

Never mind side roads, main roads were dodgy.

Hit the deck trying to turn right onto Longley Lane from Palatine Rd. All the way down Sale Road I could feel the tyres slipping. Kind of knew it was coming so, through luck or judgement (don't know which) had a quite a soft landing. Chain came off and pump came off but that was about it.

I was tempted to walk to work after that, ended up going very slow (even pavement cycling along sharston rd as the road had the glass sparkly look).

Blimey. I was very tempted to take the fixed, but thought I'd have a change. If Longley Lane was bad !!!

 

[400bhp]

Farkers just haven't been and gritted, even though there's been plenty of warning about a couple of cold evenings.

Tempted to take the hybrid along the paths tomorrow, albeit if it doesn't rain today the roads should be better tomorrow.

 

[fossyant]

The TPT was pretty muddy in places. I can see a face plant coming on the section near Parrs Wood if I don't take it steady ! (face planted twice last winter).

 

[.stu]

Fitted my Schwalbe Winter tyres over the weekend to the cx bike and and took it steady coming in, tho I only took a few minutes longer than usual. Roads were quiet apart from the impromptu car park caused by the River Severn flooding over the weekend and closing half of the bridges in Worcestershire.

 

[BSRU]

This continuous wet weather is having a real downer on my GP 4 Seasons, only 2,000km old but they have so many cuts/nicks, way more than I would normally expect. If they keep cutting up at this rate I will have to change them sooner than expected.

 

[subaqua]

on the newly fettled commuter and kept a similar time to the MTB . amazing what properly adjusted gears brakes and a new cassette and chain can do. and the cassettte is same range as previous

 

[HLaB]

This continuous wet weather is having a real downer on my GP 4 Seasons, only 2,000km old but they have so many cuts/nicks, way more than I would normally expect. If they keep cutting up at this rate I will have to change them sooner than expected.

Its been reported that GP4season are bad for that and they are relatively dear :-( I only used them for leisure but I switched to Pro 4 Endurance for that reason.