HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Just a simple direct commute for me, to get an extra 15 mins in my bed and still get in early enough that I can leave early 
Tales from today's commute....
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MisterStan
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- Location
- Out there somewhere
That's because you didn't have me there to drive the pace up!
TeeQue
Active Member
Well it's taken a while (to say the least!) but I've just finished reading all 596 pages of this thread and have been thoroughly entertained with all your commuting tales.
Just waiting for my new bike to be delivered now (ordered from Ribble yesterday) and I should be able to do some actual commuting myself.
Direct route is around 17 miles door to door but I'll have to see how I get on with the roads and my fitness then I might vary it a bit. I think I could do it in 16 but that'd be using a very busy main road where I've had some horrendous passes in the past.
I'm looking forward to it; it's a pretty hilly route (especially towards the start) but if I can do it in less than an hour and a half I should be able to leave around 6:30am which isn't too bad (start work at 8:15 and have access to showers at work).
Hopefully my next post in this thread will be with an actual 'tale from my commute'.
Just waiting for my new bike to be delivered now (ordered from Ribble yesterday) and I should be able to do some actual commuting myself.
Direct route is around 17 miles door to door but I'll have to see how I get on with the roads and my fitness then I might vary it a bit. I think I could do it in 16 but that'd be using a very busy main road where I've had some horrendous passes in the past.
I'm looking forward to it; it's a pretty hilly route (especially towards the start) but if I can do it in less than an hour and a half I should be able to leave around 6:30am which isn't too bad (start work at 8:15 and have access to showers at work).
Hopefully my next post in this thread will be with an actual 'tale from my commute'.
I got to sample the delights of CS3 this morning as I had to drop my wife's wallet off at her office nearby. I only travelled a couple of hundred metres along it, during which I was struck first by the quality of the surface, lovely and smooth, and then nearly struck by 2 cars, the first turning into a side road across CS3, ignoring the cyclists' priority, and later by a car whose driver can't tell red from green - I had the green light to go straight ahead, she had a red light for turning right across my path. Discretion being the better form of valour, I avoided both cars.
And still this short taste of CS3 was a more pleasant experience than the joke of a stretch of CS8 on Battersea Park Road earlier in my ride.
The road to my wife's office is cobbled, so I upped my pace along there, imagining that instead I was somewhere on the race route of Paris-Roubaix...
And still this short taste of CS3 was a more pleasant experience than the joke of a stretch of CS8 on Battersea Park Road earlier in my ride.
The road to my wife's office is cobbled, so I upped my pace along there, imagining that instead I was somewhere on the race route of Paris-Roubaix...
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Well we know the boy has stamina.
RichK
Guru
- Location
- Birmingham, England
Somebody's Smart car had been parked in the river about 400 yards from the nearest road. Suspect it wasnt the owner that left it there. Tow truck was just winching it out when I came past.
They have skid marks ?
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
I'm also looking forward to your commuting tales
. I have an 18 mile (each way) hilly commute, which I've been doing for 2.5 years now, and I'm in my late 40s, so it's achievable! 
fribbleblib
Well-Known Member
- Location
- New Sarum
They just walk straight across the cycle path right in front of you. They don't look to see if you are coming either.....
Mallard ducks.
Mallard ducks.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Is that what you call pedestrians in the Mother Country?
An easy 35km ride in this morning, apart from the last 5km due to some easy SCR with a guy on a SS.
SS guy decides on a "must get in front" manoeuvre at some lights to get in front of a bus and me.
Lights change SS guy on the drops going hell for leather but not going very fast in front of me. I cruise past and SS guy goes for the draft.
But he is way under geared for Swindon, I do not even need to use the big ring to pull away.
We go our separate ways, only it turns out we are going the same way, but he goes the short way I go the long way.
So later I end up on the same road as SS guy but about 400 metres behind. SS guy still on the drops giving it some but I easily catch up within 1 km.
Thought about going past but there is a right turn coming up, I'm going straight on, so I hold back and SS guy sticks his right arm out looks behind and suddenly realises I'm there.
I think SS guy needs a bigger gear.
SS guy decides on a "must get in front" manoeuvre at some lights to get in front of a bus and me.
Lights change SS guy on the drops going hell for leather but not going very fast in front of me. I cruise past and SS guy goes for the draft.
But he is way under geared for Swindon, I do not even need to use the big ring to pull away.
We go our separate ways, only it turns out we are going the same way, but he goes the short way I go the long way.
So later I end up on the same road as SS guy but about 400 metres behind. SS guy still on the drops giving it some but I easily catch up within 1 km.
Thought about going past but there is a right turn coming up, I'm going straight on, so I hold back and SS guy sticks his right arm out looks behind and suddenly realises I'm there.
I think SS guy needs a bigger gear.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Glorious weather in Leicester and a few road bikes out on what looked like leisure rides out this morning. Good average speed and the fact the boss is on holiday today let me extend the commute; might of got a bit carried away with the mileage as I ended up doing 51 miles
