Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Forecast seems about right, wind picking up and it's started to rain. Rain radar showing storm progress quite effectively.

 

[ianrauk]

vile here in the south east.
Luckily it's my usual friday off work.

 

[BSRU]

On a very short commute home for lunch I timed it just right, heavens opened, wind upped is game big time.
It was fine apart from the bridge of my nose was so cold it was painful when going straight into the wind.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Question of order. If you pop home on a dinner time do you class that as a commute? Reason I ask is I have a commuter mileage target for the year and it seems an easy way to build the commuter miles up.

 

[fossyant]

Question of order. If you pop home on a dinner time do you class that as a commute? Reason I ask is I have a commuter mileage target for the year and it seems an easy way to build the commuter miles up.

Yes. !

 

[fossyant]

Quck question.

Where the hell have my brake pads gone !

Fitted in January, looking like I'll need new ones within a couple of weeks !

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yes. !

Good lad, my commuter mileage has just increased by a good 50 miles

 

[Arjimlad]

Quck question.

Where the hell have my brake pads gone !

Fitted in January, looking like I'll need new ones within a couple of weeks !

Know what you mean there !

At least your rims should be OK still if the pads are wearing so easily. Perhaps clean the rims with a gentle scouring pad ?

 

[BSRU]

Question of order. If you pop home on a dinner time do you class that as a commute? Reason I ask is I have a commuter mileage target for the year and it seems an easy way to build the commuter miles up.

I always do but it is such a small part of the total as I live very close to work(3km away).

 

[BSRU]

Quck question.

Where the hell have my brake pads gone !

Fitted in January, looking like I'll need new ones within a couple of weeks !

I have had the same problem, brand new SwissStop EHP's put on over Christmas holiday and just ordered another set as the current set will not last much longer.

 

[BSRU]

For anyone commuting home later, the wind has picked up considerably and forecast only to get stronger

 

[fossyant]

For anyone commuting home later, the wind has picked up considerably and forecast only to get stronger

Had a text from the missus saying it was blowing her car about. Said I'll be OK as the bike is full of shopping from M&S and weighs a tonne !

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

My brake pads have been going down like there made of cheese to this winter. It's raining and windy yay, and it will be blowing straight into my face all the way home, I'll put money on it!

 

[HLaB]

Question of order. If you pop home on a dinner time do you class that as a commute? Reason I ask is I have a commuter mileage target for the year and it seems an easy way to build the commuter miles up.

I don't, I file it under transport miles but at the end of the day its up to you, 16,000 commuting miles for you ;-)
In answer to the brakepad topic. I used swisstop once and found them shocking for wear and whilst slightly better in the wet, it didn't justify it for me.
My commute was a pretty quiet one tonight; a little drizzly but no where near as bad as it looked.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well thank the maker that's over, very possibly the worse week of 5 years of commuting by bike. You get days of bad weather, you may get a couple but not 5 in a row.
3 times this week I nearly got off and walked because the wind was so strong. The flooding, relentless rain and gales. Unreal.
But that's it I am off for 2 weeks, no more biking for 16 days! Time to re group, get my shoot together as they say and hope that when I am back in March the weather has become normal again.

Be careful out there peeps.

Kev