Tales from today's commute....

[Beebo]

Warm ride in this morning, +10 when I left, unfortunately it was accompanied by drizzle and a bitter strong blustery wind.

It was far too warm for me too.
I realised about a mile into the ride that my nightvision evo jacket was overkill. I could have managed with a gillett. I was a sweaty mess by th etime I got to work.

 

[ianrauk]

It was far too warm for me too.
I realised about a mile into the ride that my nightvision evo jacket was overkill. I could have managed with a gillett. I was a sweaty mess by th etime I got to work.

Same here, Nightvision Evo and base layer... phew.. sweaty old thing from planet sweaty.
Nice ride in though wind assisted and little traffic.
And see what you mean when you were talking about swirly winds on Creek Road. Turned right into CR from DC Street to be hit by an almighty side gust. Cause a bit of a wobble.

 

[HLaB]

A nice quiet and relatively fast commute, arrived at work 10 mins early as I stayed on road rather than cycling at a snails pace through Long Causeway. Just looked at the met records and a 22-24mph wind got up, no wonder the rowing lake was hard work and I got up the Oundle Road bumps reasonably easilly.

 

[Origamist]

Looked like a nasty crash at the bend before the Ashley crossroads - two cars, police in attendance and the road closed (they let me through). Hopefully, everyone was OK.

Got caught by a downpour in Sale and felt like a hovercraft for the rest of the journey.

 

[jagman.2003]

Forgot to add. My Garmin tracked all my segments until about 5 miles from home. It then seemed to think I was somewhere else.
Unfortunately some of my efforts to beat my times were not suitably recorded on Strava. But I did do 8th position on a mountain bike trail..!
Does anyone know if this is a common fault?

 

[wilkotom]

Forgot to add. My Garmin tracked all my segments until about 5 miles from home. It then seemed to think I was somewhere else.
Unfortunately some of my efforts to beat my times were not suitably recorded on Strava. But I did do 8th position on a mountain bike trail..!
Does anyone know if this is a common fault?

Mine does something similar on occasion. Last week I apparently logged a KOM going 30mph down a busy street a mile from where I'd actually been riding.

 

[glenn forger]

Light drizzle but still mild, rode in in vest and t shirt the last two days.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

2nd furthest commute of the year so far @ 55 miles and by far the quickest too @ 18.35 mph average, happy with that. The last few days have seen the legs feeling a bit stronger. I suspect this will be the start of the speed going up on the daily grind. Got soaked through on the way home today by a hard shower that lasted no longer than 5 minutes, thing was, for those 5 minutes it was that heavy I could hardly see! !

 

[User33236]

Got our of work on the way home and got straight though the lights at the exit to the car park for the first time in a while. Turned left in the bus / cycle lane and spotted two women and a bloke walk, all smartly dressed, look up the road toward me then slowly step out into the lane about 20 metres ahead and then wait there, line astern, blocking the lane whilst waiting for a gap in traffic to cross!

They were left knowing in no uncertain terms what I thought of their idiotic and selfish behaviour and continued on my otherwise enjoyable ride home.

 

[JoeyB]

I rode my new old steelie home tonight and it was awesome.

 

[ianrauk]

Bleedin' warm commute home.
Didn't even bother wearing the tights.just the shorts.. bare legged for the first time since I can remember since last year.

 

[3narf]

As an indication of how appalling the roads are around Manchester Airport, I arrived at work this morning to find my back mudguard snapped in two.

 

[GrasB]

As an indication of how appalling the roads are around Manchester Airport, I arrived at work this morning to find my back mudguard snapped in two.

Probably means you've bent it very slightly at one point & it's cracked. I was writing off a rear mudguard every 9-10 months because of this. The chain stay & seat stay bridges were in the wrong place & put the end of mudguard about where the rim should be requiring a kink to be put in the mudguard at the seat stay bridge.

 

[martint235]

What an absolutely, fabulously, fantastically wonderful commute to work! Sun just coming up into a blue, blue sky. Just enough chill in the air to nip at the knees, hardly any traffic and what there was behaving well!

 

[Beebo]

What an absolutely, fabulously, fantastically wonderful commute to work! Sun just coming up into a blue, blue sky. Just enough chill in the air to nip at the knees, hardly any traffic and what there was behaving well!

Yep, bit windy on my route but that was the best of 2014 so far!