Tales from today's commute....

[BSRU]

Easy commute day for me, just 40km target to reach so I had a nice extra 90 minutes in bed this morning.
Will hopefully make up for it on tomorrow mornings very early leisure ride.

 

[EthelF]

A beautiful, bright, crisp winter's morning ride. Makes a nice change from the recent weather. Just a pity my legs were heavy after yesterday's 60+km double commute (had tp go home at lunchtime to deal with builders).
Was it the fine weather or the fact that it's Friday that put everyone in a noticeably better mood than yesterday (everyone bar the close-passing Big Bus Tour driver, but experience has taught me to expect nothing better from them)?

 

[BSRU]

Although a very short commute home, encountered five muppets behind the wheel of cars.
1) Gave me the horn for being delayed for a maximum of 0.1 seconds,
2) Dangerous tailgating,
3) Using a bus gate and lane as a short cut to shopping centre car park,
4) Classic "must get in front" syndrome in order to join back of the stationary queue of traffic, only for me to go back in front straight away,
5) Someone deciding that eating a large sandwich whilst traversing the magic roundabout was a good idea.

 

[subaqua]

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.

Sunday afternoon going home from the city as like that. I took a much longer route home than normal and very pleasant it was indeed.

 

[HLaB]

A short direct commute to the flat last night to get me back so I could relax before my evening ride. This morning was a short direct commute too, as I had something to do at work. Nothing of interest happened on either.

 

[David Parry]

 

[jagman.2003]

I did wonder if the driver of a very large company vehicle, had considered that tailgating me for the second time, very close, within a half a mile was a career limiting move.
Had he considered that the cyclist in front might actually be your bosses brother & would have no difficulty in advising the company owner on the poor quality driving.
Personally I have been tailgated too close plenty of times. But the threat of being run over by a vehicle with your surname on the side was just too much!

 

[HLaB]

Did something I've not done for a while and went to the pub after work with some colleagues and bumped into an old colleague, so after two pints and too many cola's it was just the direct 1.2 miles back from the pub for me tonight.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Short commute from me, slight headwind and it took all my energy.

 

[3narf]

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.

That sounds plausible! You think they'd be elastic enough to cope with a bit of misalignment; mind you, they were very cheap even though they're SKS ones.

 

[Grendel]

Had an irritating encounter with a taxi driver this morning. Apparently Airdrie Taxis cab 137 thinks that the way to deal with a cyclist in front of him is to blast his horn, not wait until it is safe to pass. Feckin idiot.

 

[3narf]

There seems to be an assumption of overtaking these days, even when a cyclist is approaching an obstruction like a parked car.

The driver behind you thinks his overtaking you takes priority over your overtaking the parked car.

 

[martint235]

First commute of the year without a jacket!! Yay! Summer is here!!!

 

[ManiaMuse]

First commute of the year without a jacket!! Yay! Summer is here!!!

I haven't worn a jacket all winter...

 

[BSRU]

First commute of the year on the CX bike with slick tyres instead of Marathon Winters, nice and quick even with two dead slow sections when overtaking the same horse rider twice.
I can certainly see those winter miles bringing lots of summer smiles