Tales from today's commute....
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
A fairly sedate commute for me, left it till the latest possible before traffic chaos would resume, so I could have a few more minutes in my bed. Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday has left me worn out; yet I've done more miles at faster pace and been all right, I think it was the heat and a dose of hay fever 
Arjimlad
Tights of Cydonia
- Location
- South Glos
It was raining hard when I got up but relented for the start of my ride in. Stopped partway to don the waterproof and overshoes. I need to cycle to the scout activity centre after work this evening to supervise cubs climbing a tower, and want to be in dry shoes for that.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I too stopped to put on the waterproofs and had a couple of cyclist say good morning whilst I was donning my jacket. But it was too humid and not enough rain coming down so it was off again before I got to the MOD.
Then I had the driver (as mentioned on the zebra thread), who didn't think about why I had stopped in the middle of the road at 8:40 outside a school on a zebra crossing, who pulled onto the wrong side of the road to overtake. Apparently she "didn't see them!"
Rest of the journey was good, even had a nice white van man wind down the window to thank me for stopping opposite a gap so he could get by on a narrow road.
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
I dont moan about the weather a lot...
but they all got the weather forecast wrong today , forecast rain this morning and afternoon but not one drop of rain
GET IN!!!!!!!!
but they all got the weather forecast wrong today , forecast rain this morning and afternoon but not one drop of rain
GET IN!!!!!!!!
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
You obviously weren't south of cambridge then!... I've got cat shaped wet patches on the sofa & carpet to prove it
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Following on from the above... today's commute in was a 29 mile long puddle slalom 
markharry66
Guru
Nob on plumstead highstreet. Two buses either side of road big enough gap to get bike through. I went through took primary as I know any space left would be taken. Only to get mouth full of abuse from idiot in truck gave back as good as I got dont normally bother you must have caught me on a good morning.
Anders
Active Member
What a lovely sunny ride in this morning, could have gone straight past the office and kept going.......... Rain later but hey-ho you cant win them all...
Another glorious 61km commute in, again warm with a light breeze which seems from a different direction today.
Saw a stupid salmon cyclist riding the wrong way on a busy one way road with the sun right behind him, lucky I wasn't go too fast and was paying attention.
Saw a stupid salmon cyclist riding the wrong way on a busy one way road with the sun right behind him, lucky I wasn't go too fast and was paying attention.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Cracking morning. Stiff Westerly though. Spotted another squad rider this morning. Let onto him and got a nod and a big smile back. Pretty sure this was Jason Kenny. Even got another colleague into the 'squad' spotting - she saw three on their way out this morning.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Beautiful warm sunny commute; it brought a fool out however. That being sai it a bit of a confusing junction. I was waiting to turn right on the main road and muppet in a white car tries to turn right underneath me the island stops them doing so, just (I dont think he fancied scraping his nice shinny car). If he had got passed he would have immediately hooked left and I was going straight (or more accurately round to the right). To be fare to them they probably thought originally I was going to go straight into the farcility rather than turning right, as I said its a bit of a daft junction, a mate of mine who lived there 20+ years recently got knocked off at the same junction.
w00hoo_kent
One of the 64K
- Location
- Maidstone or Greenwich
Medway campus, so plus point was cycling from my door, negatives were it was silly O clock in the morning (at risk period work to do when I got there), not my normal destination so needed a rucksack full of crap and Bluebell Hill is between home and work. Didn't break any records. Nice weather though.
