Tales from today's commute....

[BSRU]

No wind this time of year means mist/fog, got very foggy out in the countryside and cold as well.

 

[MisterStan]

Came in on the winter bike again today, I thoroughly cleaned the best bike at the weekend and there's not a cat in hell's chance i'm getting her mucky on her first run out post wash.

@kevin_cambs_uk;
Forecast last night for this morning - dry. Forecast this morning - heavy rain. Actual weather this morning - misty.

 

[BSRU]

Unfortunately I noticed on the 1km uphill I have at the start of my ride the council intend to put in speed tables("speed table" painted on the road in three places). Going by previous experience they will probably be using cobbles to wake up drivers and scare cyclists.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I got rained on for my entire 90 minute ride home: the perfect antidote to a long, dry Summer . I also rode a modified route I first tried yesterday, which avoids some busier roads, and works pretty well, so I'll keep using it. It's all good on the commuting front...

 

[Biscuit]

Didn't stop raining the entire 90 mins on the way in today. However despite the water dripping off the end of my nose, I smiled all the way past the queueing traffic in Linton. :-)

 

[ianrauk]

I'm one of the lucky London cyclists that doesn't follow a tube line so no more or no less cyclists on the route compared to usual. But looking out of my office window onto Creek Road, one of the main routes from east to west into London, there are a good few more cyclists then usual.

Nice mild, windless, dry weather made for a nice and fast commute this morning. Even car drivers are behaving. But it's now feeling a little muggy so can imagine we are in for a big soaking later.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Very foggy this morning, lights on for the whole ride. I was well and truly scalped by a roadie this morning, he went by as if I wasn't moving. Temperature was in that awkward range were it was not quite warm enough for short sleeve top and fingerless gloves, but too warm for long sleeves and full fingers and again very little wind

 

[azir]

Crazy times in London this morning - although novice cyclists were slightly irritating, the most worrying aspect was the cars/taxis that felt they could just bail out of their queues of doom by flinging their vehicle anyway they wanted without looking...Nice! On another note it was pointed out to me, very politely I must say, that a part of my commute through a little alley way nears Barts Hospital now has "cyclists dismount" signs at either end... They used to warn peds to look out for cyclists, no idea why the change and now I'm torn between sticking to cycling through it (obviously giving way to peds etc.), walking through it or just circumventing it... No big deal really but I'd love to know why this has been changed - just perception of "danger" maybe?

 

[BSRU]

I was well and truly scalped by a roadie this morning, he went by as if I wasn't moving

That's Marathon Plus's for you

 

[subaqua]

not on the commute per se , but I am really going to lose it with the next suited tw@ on a Boris bike that thinks riding along the pavement to avoid cars while the pavements are full of people and bangs into me without even a "sorry mate"

commute in was brilliant. I think a lot of peeps tipped it bollox and stayed home as ropads were quieter. They are not now and Moor Lane and Fore street look like a car park towrds Chiswell street. I had a nice walk to Bush House from Moorgate via Ludgate circus project.

 

[Ciar]

Roads were busy from charlie browns right upto burdett road, lots of tube strike cyclists all over the shop, the usual group of riders i see most days jumping red lights, but one thing i have noticed is the amount of fair weather cyclists that have all of a sudden appeared...... get into the gym for a shower the cycle changing room is mobbed with em!

 

[Archeress]

not on the commute per se , but I am really going to lose it with the next suited tw@ on a Boris bike that thinks riding along the pavement to avoid cars while the pavements are full of people and bangs into me without even a "sorry mate"

I was in London a couple of weeks ago and was walking towards Leicester Square tube. At a road crossing the pedestrian crossing light was showing a green man but all the pedestrians were not crossing because a big gang of boris bike tourists were going through the red light. I just stepped out in front of one of them, made him almost fall off (without touching him) and then berated him for trying to cycle through a red light. Only briefly though as I was trying to get to Victoria, collect my luggage and catch my coach home.

Hugs
Archeress x

 

[BSRU]

Some guy on a road bike decided to red light jump in order to give me a race, but they were sh!te, I pulled away without even trying.

 

[I like Skol]

Decided to mix it up on tonight’s commute. I took the MTB for the off-road route AND switched the iPod to random (living life on the edge !). It’s the first time I have done this since the nights drew in last autumn.

I don’t know what it is about the MTB but it always seems to encourage me to release my inner freak It was enormous fun with a grin from ear to ear all the way, even when I left my bike behind superman style at about 10mph! This happened at a point where I ride across the line of an old wire fence. The wires have been trampled down in the mud and grass for years but this time the wires were stuck up just enough to catch a pedal…. Cue bike stopping dead but me not doing! No harm done and I tucked and rolled like a pro It’s funny how I always manage to unconsciously unclip from my SPD pedals in these situations even though the tension is set to max?
Looking forward to the ride home in the morning.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Nothing really to note, but the ride home took me over the 1000 mile mark in a month. First time I've ever done it so chuffed to bits