Tales from today's commute....

[MisterStan]

The black clouds were gathering this morning as I got the bike out, and I was thinking bike car car bike, I went for the bike and it stayed dry all the way through a routine commute, riding home dinner time, early finish most Fridays, I had to drop in at the post office and took the footpath and bridge off Lythalls lane rather the use the Foleshill road and the big roundabout, on the footpath there was a couple with a pushchair walking towards me so I stopped and waited for them to pass, as they got alongside me the woman held out a ring and tried to sell it to me, when I said no she reached into the folded hood of the pushchair for something else, at this point I made my excuses and rode off, apart from that a routine days commuting, even the plants I picked up were in good shape when I got them home and unpacked.

Wanna buy some lucky 'eather sir?

 

[martinclive]

3 words: Schwalbe Ultremo Aqua

Thanks - running gatorskins at the moments I know a few people think they are a little less grippy than ideal - but have proved good for p-protection (so far!!!!)
Went back and looked at where i skidded and there is a small drain cover there - so feel better that was probably the cause rather than just tyres letting go on the tarmac

 

[DWiggy]

Thanks - running gatorskins at the moments I know a few people think they are a little less grippy than ideal - but have proved good for p-protection (so far!!!!)
Went back and looked at where i skidded and there is a small drain cover there - so feel better that was probably the cause rather than just tyres letting go on the tarmac

I have notice that the gators take a few miles to get to there full grip potential. My last set were a bit wheel spiny to start with but soon grip up.

 

[summerdays]

I've spent the day getting wet, whether commuting or shopping etc, I'm fed up and cold!

Commute home was more cyclists, at one stage in a little group of about 9 cyclists on the ring road path. Later I was overtaken by a lady who I presumed was faster, she turned out to be fractionally slower but at the end of a long week I decided to just sit behind instead for a mile or more before I got bored. I kept expecting her to tell me to get lost.

 

[MichaelO]

First time I've ever done a full week of 40 mile round trip commuting - now I know it's possible!! Even did the last 35 miles of the 200 with a broken spoke

Now for many many

 

[Deleted member 1258]

First time I've ever done a full week of 40 mile round trip commuting - now I know it's possible!! Even did the last 35 miles of the 200 with a broken spoke

Now for many many

Well done.

 

[matth411]

Got called a "crazy f***er" on my commute this evening. Roads half flooded, drains unable to cope, still piddling down and there I was on a bike. Stopped at traffic lights and a car pulled up next to me, driver looked at me as if I was mental. He put his window down just before the lights changed, I just looked at him and said "skin is waterproof" he laughed and then called me a crazy f***er.

I was smiling more than any driver I had the pleasure of seeing.

 

[matth411]

Weather is doing my head in now. My last two shifts it has been raining going to work and dry coming home. I wouldn't mind it as much if it was the other way around. But apart from the weather, an incident free commute today. Just the usual sunday morning walk of shames, a glittering of different colours of glass on the floor, every bin overflowing with take away packaging. The odd road kill. And people who are still trying to get home from last night looking like road kill.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Well next weeks weather forecast looks totally shite.
On the BBC app it says constant rain from Tuesday 3 am to Thursday morning apart from a couple of 1 hour segments. Lets hope they are being way too pessimistic, or this is going to cost me in bus fares!

 

[tom_pvfc]

First time I've ever done a full week of 40 mile round trip commuting - now I know it's possible!! Even did the last 35 miles of the 200 with a broken spoke

Now for many many

Nice work. I do 2/3 times a week at the minute. This will be my motivation to try go for the whole week!

 

[mangid]

Pretty wet here in Cambridge, at least I got to change the puncture in the dry of the garage :-)

 

[GrasB]

Pretty wet here in Cambridge, at least I got to change the puncture in the dry of the garage :-)

mangid... the king of understatement. I didn't down-hill out of my village today a road, I was riding down a river bed made of tarmac
I'm wondering just how much of the guided busway is flooded?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Wet, rained the whole way, race on now to get my gear dry for tonight

 

[ianrauk]

Yep, same as other, wet out there, wetter then wet in fact, so wet that I could have been a wt thing from planet wet. It was wet I tell's ya. Good thing it wasn't cold though.

 

[Beebo]

Why did I bother cleaning the bike? Not sure dry lube was the way to go either!
At least my sealskin socks worked.