Tales from today's commute....

[kevin_cambs_uk]

We only made the effort to see your new shorts (which disappointingly seem to still be in the wardrobe!!!)

LMAO!
New shorts soon mate, you will like them, they match my tyres!

 

[Hacienda71]

A somewhat sedate commute for me today on the 1980 Carlton after yesterday's chain snapping time on the carbon beastie.

 

[Kookas]

Sprinting off from some traffic lights tonight and really took off thanks to a tailwind (which there always is on that road). Look to my right as a car catches up and see a couple of kids in the back staring in what I can only describe as total awe. Brilliant.

 

[Ollie W]

Lovely ride home, getting up to 30mph on the common... then straight out again for an hour's swim. I'm mental.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Such a lovely commute this morning. The sun was shinning, the sky was blue, the wind has dropped and there is less traffic on the road.

The bike is running clean and quiet and as smooth as can be.

21 miles of sheer commuting joy.

That's a good distance, Ian. Do you do it regularly?

 

[BSRU]

That was a cold start, just +4, with virtually no wind, in summer gear as well(with a base layer top).
Got even colder and mistier/foggier in the countryside but then the sun appeared.
Warming up nicely as I arrived at work.

 

[MisterStan]

always nice when all you can hear are the birds singing, the tyres rolling, and the gentle burble of a clean drive chain.

Poetic

 

[MisterStan]

A glorious morning, caught up with @kevin_cambs_uk on the Busway and had a good old chinwag. What little traffic I saw was well behaved today.

 

[ianrauk]

That's a good distance, Ian. Do you do it regularly?

21 in the mornings, 14 in the evenings, 4 days a week.
My direct door to door route is 12 miles.. but that's boring

 

[Supersuperleeds]

That was a cold start, just +4, with virtually no wind, in summer gear as well(with a base layer top).
Got even colder and mistier/foggier in the countryside but then the sun appeared.
Warming up nicely as I arrived at work.

Similar here, was very chilly first thing, wind was fairly calm, though the couple of turbines I go past were whizzing away quite merrily, maybe I'm just getting fitter

 

[ianrauk]

only 5 degs when I left this morning. A little bit nippy out there. So on with the windstopper (over a ss shirt), though that did come off halfway in when I warmed up enough. Once again a really lovely commute. When the schools are out and there is less traffic on the roads , my average speed on my route to work rises by about 2mph.

There are so many tourist and I guess school exchange student coaches around Lewisham and Greenwich at the moment. There were 4 at Lewisham's roundabout of death holding everyone up.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Well, that'll teach me not to cross the white, painted centre line, when riding a descending, winding section of shared path in the wet, won't it? Well, at least, I HOPE it'll teach me . I'm not normally that careless, but it was a familiar path I've ridden 100s of times, and complacency took hold, I guess. My shoulder hurts, too, since it took the main impact. The bike's fine, though, thanks for asking!

 

[ianrauk]

Well, that'll teach me not to cross the white, painted centre line, when riding a descending, winding section of shared path in the wet, won't it? Well, at least, I HOPE it'll teach me . I'm not normally that careless, but it was a familiar path I've ridden 100s of times, and complacency took hold, I guess. My shoulder hurts, too, since it took the main impact. The bike's fine, though, thanks for asking!

That look's ouchy ouchy mate...

 

[martinclive]

A glorious morning, caught up with @kevin_cambs_uk on the Busway and had a good old chinwag. What little traffic I saw was well behaved today.

you did well - he smoked Jess and I last night!!!

 

[HLaB]

Well, that'll teach me not to cross the white, painted centre line, when riding a descending, winding section of shared path in the wet, won't it? Well, at least, I HOPE it'll teach me . I'm not normally that careless, but it was a familiar path I've ridden 100s of times, and complacency took hold, I guess. My shoulder hurts, too, since it took the main impact. The bike's fine, though, thanks for asking!

Ouch, you could have recovered it like this guy