Tales from today's commute....

[MisterStan]

Overslept badly this morning - woke up when I would usually be leaving! Friday legs? No time for them this morning - just managed to make it in to work on time though.

Hot and sunny from the outset, looks like it's going to be another scorcher!

 

[BSRU]

Overslept badly this morning - woke up when I would usually be leaving! Friday legs? No time for them this morning - just managed to make it in to work on time though.

Hot and sunny from the outset, looks like it's going to be another scorcher!

Hose pipe ban soon

 

[Origamist]

Awful night's sleep as was staying in the sister in law's bedroom*. It had everything that I need to guarantee a fitful sleep:

Memory foam mattress
No black out curtains/blinds
A double bed, not a king (1st world problems, eh?)
Railings at the bottom of the bed
Feather pillow

Result - almost got left hooked and right hooked. If I had not been dozy, I would have seen them coming...

Apart from that - great. 35 miles.

*Not with the sister in law, I hasten to add...

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

(and something tells me he wasn't really trying that hard anyway......)

Yep you are correct, I was just out for a bit of a pootle

 

[Stephen C]

Can I just check here that I still actually exist? I had 3 different pedestrians look straight at me then walk calmly across the road in front of me... Ah well, you can't get mad when it's nice weather!

 

[Clanghead]

Ditched the hybrid and train today and took my road bike all the way to work for the first time today.
Lovely ride in, apart from one stupidity pass from a Ford Fiesta, finding that loose gravel has been laid all up (a long "up") Swanwick Lane, and my left leg completely cramping up 200 yards from work so that I had to walk the rest of the way. Guess I need more practice. Glad I brought my rail season ticket with me "just in case" for the way home...

 

[BSRU]

Almost taken out by a red light jumper at lunch time.
I say red light jumper it was more "what red light/what traffic lights" jumper, the old geezer in the car seemed very confused and disorientated as to where he was, probably time to give his licence back.

 

[morrisman]

Ditched the hybrid and train today and took my road bike all the way to work for the first time today.
Lovely ride in, apart from one stupidity pass from a Ford Fiesta, finding that loose gravel has been laid all up (a long "up") Swanwick Lane, and my left leg completely cramping up 200 yards from work so that I had to walk the rest of the way. Guess I need more practice. Glad I brought my rail season ticket with me "just in case" for the way home...

Swanwick Lane, there is a blast from my past as I worked at the Air Traffic Control Centre up there, the climb up from the Hamble was horrible with out loose gravel so I feel your pain.

 

[AboutLee]

I must admit I do feel pressurised to get past the RLJ's, just to prove that they haven't actually gained that much time.

Wasn't even that, it was the fact of drivers being half sleep and him jumping the lights I didn't want to see the wrong end of it.

 

[summerdays]

Nice commutes, weather a little hot (I know I shouldn't moan, it's better than rain and so nice not carrying waterproofs for "just in case").

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Get to the A47 tonight and I need to go straight across it, car from my right flashes me out so I pootle out, thinking I will go into the right turn filter lane on the main road and wait for the traffic from my left to clear. Unfortunately a car in the queue behind the one that flashed me out is turning right and goes into the filter lane looking slightly peeved with me. So I wave him by and follow behind him. When we get over the road he stops for a chat. Politely pointed out the car had flashed me and I had also seen him hence why I waited. He was fine with me, but annoyed with the driver who had flashed me out, said he'd been doing it at every junction.

Also had a car try and over take me, I think she didn't realise how fast I was going and she had to abandoned the over take and stayed behind me. It was a slight down hill and I was doing 30 mph

Weather wise it has clouded over and was a bit cooler than this morning, still very warm though.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

glorious morning. snicked up a couple of gears. round the sharp bend as the climb kicks in on a single track road through the woods. suddenly i am surrounded by deer walking across the slope. the ones in front of me stop and look at me heads turning as one and then bosh they scarper sharpish and i am thinking of the ones above or behind "don't take me out". stunning.

glorious ride home this evening.

perfect weather.

 

[Glow worm]

Cocked up on my way in earlier. Roundabout- white van positioned as if to go straight ahead, me on cycle path that merges with the road at that point. My 'radar ' is normally ok in these situations and i sensed no problem due to the positioning of the van. But as I drew alongside the van onto the road, it suddenly swung left without indicating, stopping just in time, when the driver saw me. I should have known a lot better although it was the drivers fault, and he did apologise. Will be a lot more careful here in future. (Nasty 'Sainsbury's' roundabout in Cambridge for any locals)

Lovely chilled ride home though in the sunshine. Managed to get into that zone where nothing, not even Volvos, was going to irritate me - perfect !

 

[Stephen C]

My commute home could've gone a little better: http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-ground-wasnt-as-solid-as-i-thought.158470/

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I have mixed feelings about the oncoming Winter Solstice - it means the days will get longer. So far, we've had pretty underwhelming Winter weather. I was hoping for something semi-Biblical which would keep away the fair-weather riders (the incompetent ones, that is), but no such luck. Oh well, there's still 2.5 months of Winter left, the weather might get worse .