Tales from today's commute....

[Hacienda71]

Some quality riding round there! Both on and off road

Very true. Fairly new to the off road stuff but have done some cracking mtb routes around Macc forest this winter.

 

[I like Skol]

Soon be time for my MTB commute once the days get a bit longer/lighter. It's great, spend about half the ride airbourne

 

[BSRU]

Ice tyres used this morning, no ice in town but lots in the countryside at the beginning of my ride. By the time I got back into town it had warmed up above freezing.
Light very early this morning.

 

[ianrauk]

-1 when I left this morning, garden lawn looking very frosty white. So back out with the winter jacket and leggings again. Was a tad chilly starting off but with the sun was blazing away in a bright blue sky and a good deal of quick cadence I soon warmed up. Was a lovely ride in this morning. Traffic not too bad and no car driver farkwittery. The wind was slight, all was good.

And it's the last week of commuting home in the dark.... lights prepare to be put away for the season.. you clutter my bike..

 

[Origamist]

Nippy this morning - but was prepared with my Endura BaaBaa beanie. Amazingly, I did not manage to lose it en route.

Took the lights off this morning and can't wait for the clocks to go forward at the weekend.

 

[thefollen]

Lady on a bike pulled out of a side road straight across the front of me without looking right this morn. Hit the brakes (was doing around 20mph) and managed to turn the bike parallel before any collision... only just. Informed her she should really look in future. I think the fright should possibly see to that however!

A few crazy peeps also out and about today- Mondays Mondays. Otherwise, a nice ride :-)

 

[Stephen C]

I was really enjoying this morning, nice and warm, no wind...then some complete idiot ran a red light and nearly took me out, kind of took the shine off the morning! The guy in the car behind me pulled along side at the next lights to see if I was ok, so thank you to him!

 

[HLaB]

Drove back from Scotland last night after a century ride up there in the morning, so it was a 8:15 rise for me today and the direct way to work.

 

[fossyant]

Nippy this am. extended commute of about 18 miles, then another 4 back to the office, followed by another extended one tonight. (This is not doing my bits any favours).

Took advantage of there being no road works on Styal Road climb up towards the airport, and bagged 7th on Strava. Head wind on the way up, so I recon I can knock a few more seconds off. Thats with a fully loaded set of panniers too.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Lovely ride in this morning, ice on the cars meant the ice bike came back out, but there was little wind and the sun came up quite early and lovely blue sky all the way to work. Decided to go home at dinner time and switch the ice bike for the commuter, blimey the wind has picked up from this morning.

 

[Maylian]

So today after work, I head to my LBS to pick my other bike up after having the rear wheel replaced. As I'm taking a small roundabout the next exit has two lanes, half way across both cars decide to go leaving me with no where to escape to. I manage to turn on the brakes and veer a little to the front of the car and get around it enough so that it only clipped my leg.

I took a bit of a tumble, bashed my knee in a bit but almost burst into tears thinking my 1 month old carbon may have just been written off. The driver stopped and was ok when I asked her to pull over to exchange details, another motorist pulled over and offered to be a witness should I need stating that whilst I may have been a bit quick I was in the right.

Anyways, a quick check on the bike, straightening of the brake leavers and everything looked in order. Checked with the bike shop and they ran their eye over it and couldn't see any issues. All in all a lucky escape, an unfortunate ride home and a sore knee but not as bad as it could have been thankfully. Guess I'll leave it a day or so and text the driver if everything seems ok to let her know as much.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

Nearly had a head on with the company director this morning.

Rode around the corner into the car park ENTRANCE, as he is EXITING it the wrong way. Pah - driving around like he owns the bloody place!

 

[400bhp]

Saw a cyclist lying in the middle of the road this morning at the junction of Park Road and Ashley Road in Hale. I'm not sure what happened but there were a few people stood around, with cyclist and bike lying in the road. There wasn't a car nearby so I'm guessing slipped going around the corner.

From a distance I thought it was @Origamist - had a bald head and simillar build too. Thankfully not, albeit not a cyclist I had seen before which is a little unusual for a weekday morning commute. I helped picked his bike up and asked if he was OK (which he seemed to be) and went on my way.

 

[fribbleblib]

Saw a duck striding confidently through the main gates of a school in the Cathedral Close this morning! Quacking away happily to itself.

 

[HLaB]

Took the shortest way home tonight, passed a bloke lying on the ground with two others administering first aid, fortuately the ambulance was right behind me!