Tales from today's commute....

[ianrauk]

Fawg. Thick fawg. Followed by low sun and wet roads on a westbound commute. It gives the old sphincter a good workout.

Bike looks like I never cleaned it at the weekend.

Gonna be a gorgeous morning by the looks of it.

Beautiful blue sky in Londinium this morning.
The River Thames is looking lovely...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Beautiful blue sky in Londinium this morning.
The River Thames is looking lovely...

Shaddup.

I miss working in that lahndahn, and the walk over London Bridge, or walking to Victoria from EC3, or the occasional ride from East Croydon into the City, or the ride from Clapham Junction or East Croydon to Brixton when I worked there. Grafting in a former convent school in a wooded field on the edge of a small market town might be helping to save the world but the buzz isn't quite the same.

That said I do not miss the daily rail commute to work there. At all.

 

[ianrauk]

Shaddup.

I miss working in that lahndahn, and the walk over London Bridge, or walking to Victoria from EC3, or the occasional ride from East Croydon into the City, or the ride from Clapham Junction or East Croydon to Brixton when I worked there. Grafting in a former convent school in a wooded field on the edge of a small market town might be helping to save the world but the buzz isn't quite the same.

That said I do not miss the daily rail commute to work there. At all.

And there's me lucky that my office overlooks said River Thames... though my view has been partially blocked due to some crappy new development on the wharf opposite.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

As I type my view is of a former croquet lawn, some squirrels and bunny wunnies, and an area of Scheduled Ancient Woodland. This time of year the soundtrack to my day is

 

[Nocode]

You near enough mirrored my commute home last night.
A21 from Deptford to Bromley, left to Bickley, right at Blackbrook, left at Southborough, up to Petts Wood, Crofton, Locksbottom, back on A21 to Tubbenden. The heavy downpour only really started at about 6.15ish.

Yep, that's more or less what I did, except I went left at top of Crofton to go past Orpington Station. I didn't leave work until 6, so missed the downpour *phew*

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Beautiful blue sky in Londinium this morning.
The River Thames is looking lovely...

33 degrees here at it's peak,gutted I tell though and sunny.

 

[Nocode]

33 degrees here at it's peak,gutted I tell though and sunny.

So no tights and windproof jacket for you today?

 

[Harry_Palmer79]

Lovely ride in this morning, bright and cool but not cold... I only saw one 'silly cyclist' avoiding a red-light by taking to the pavement, narrowly avoiding a pedestrian and I was close passed by a car coming along Woodlands Road (pulled into oncoming traffic to do so and only just got back in his lane in time). I then caught him up at the lights, just managing to resist the temptation to smirk/comment on the pointlessness of the manoeuvre.

It's mostly downhill on the way in to work, with one small hill to climb and if I take the Great Western Road home it's really only a gradual climb and doesn't take too much longer than the way in.

 

[ohnovino]

Got stuck for about five minutes at a toucan crossing this morning. Kept pressing the button, but the "wait" light would just go on for a few seconds then off again with no green man/bike phase. What made it worse was that the cars were only crawling along at 5mph, and could easily have just stopped to let me go, but nobody did

Reported it on FixMyStreet and got a very quick automated reply from the council, so fingers crossed they'll actually do something about it.

 

[Graham]

Cracking ride in until I got to the 'big' roundabout next to the church on the A56 coming into Manchester, then I got my first p$$ture ever! Went with a bang and I absolutely bricked it. Started looking round for the smoking gun. Lunchtime task will be to pull on the latex gloves and change the tube I guess.

 

[Graham]

Was a bit late this morning (7:20am) so came in mostly along the A56. Reminded me why I don't take that way-just generally too busy and crap driving

Could I ask how you normally avoid the A56? I come in on it, but it would be nice to find a quieter route. I've managed to miss out Bowden roundabout and a bit of Altrincham by going through Dunham.

 

[400bhp]

Sure Graham - easier to show you on a map. Where do you commute from & what time?

This is my default route at the moment whilst the Metrolink is being put on Mauldeth Rd-normally I would go up Mauldeth Rd, then up Withington Rd or Alexandra Rd South.

The key to the route is to go through Sale Water Park and pass Jackson's boat pub as this gets you into Chorlton. From there you have a multitude of routes to take. The path to Hardy Lane is fine for road bikes too.

On the route I have posted, instead of heading to the big roundabout just outside Deansgate on the A56, there's a shared use pedestrian bridge that takes you over the Mancunian way.

[edit-just noticed that the route turns right in Chorlton on Wilbraham Rd and left onto Withington Rd. I wouldn't normally take that way, but just continue on Manchester Rd, then take the right fork onto Upper Chorlton Rd).

 

[Lee_M]

usual trip in through victoria park and along the canal, very nice, and quite warm.

I do seem to be struggling though atm, I feel on the point of collapse all the time whether I'm doing a 5 mile run or a 40 mile run, weird

 

[potsy]

Just about managed to avoid any rain this morning, but looking at how dark the sky is right now I'm not expecting to be so lucky later
It's all @400bhp fault, the muppet

 

[400bhp]