Tales from today's commute....

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Supersuperleeds

Legendary Member
Location
Leicester
Saw a cyclist hit the deck this morning, well I say saw, I heard it and turned around and saw him on the floor. Looks like he had got out of the saddle to go up a climb only for his chain to come off. I turned around to check he and the bike was okay and apart from a scraped knee and a bruised ego he was fine. Saw him again on the way home and he told me he was fine.

First commute for a week as I had a week off, 87 miles of commuting done today on the road bike, back onto the Tricross tomorrow so the mileage will drop
 

400bhp

Guru
Weather.com is describing the wind as "calm".

They were mocking.:ninja:
 
Weather gone mad.
Left at 5.10 for the first time in weeks.
started raining, but thought it would pass. Got the top of Castle hill in Cambridge and it just bucketed down.
Got off and just sat down in a stairwell under cover and watched it.
17:30 just about stopped, so back on.
Get to Oakington and it starts drying out.
Get to Longstanton, its never rained, so back on the bus way and home.
Crazy.
 
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martint235

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
Could be the shoe / pedal interface, not the cleats themselves. I get this from time to time and a quick dab of Vaseline does the trick. Just remember not to walk across the carpet in your cycling shoes......
On the way home, there wasn't a squeak or a creak out of them. I think that narrows it down to the bindings and how I do them up. Will experiment.
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I took it easy this morning, though the overgrown vegetation is becoming dangerous, yesterday, had to brake suddenly on a corner as we both hadn't seen each other, this morning a lady came around a different corner at speed saw me and ended up in the vegetation to my left. I have reported both places already but South Glos said one isn't their site so they can't do anything, and the other they can't cut till September due to birds nesting (it's cow parsley - now 5 ft high next to the ring road, I don't think any bird is going to be nesting in that). I am wondering whether I can legally cut it back myself.
 
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martint235

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
Usual nutter in the Riverside Park. I was slowing behind two peds, they heard me and strangely parted (as opposed to both moving to the same side) to let me through the middle of them. As I was passing between them, kerbheard comes round the blind corner in front of me at speed. I bet he's glad he had disc brakes although he's now got less rear tyre than he started with. F***ing pillock.

Other than that a normal ride in. Saw @deptfordmarmoset .

Still seem to be low on power since Sunday but have deliberately been eating less as I want to lose a stone or so.
 
Just the Orton Mere commute for me again but what was nice when I joined the main road just behind me was a car with a boardman on the back. The driver waited patiently to pass me, then further down the road where there was a wee bit of a queue I passed him again and again he was very considerate in his passing. Get to work and he's in the car park just about to unload the bike of his car :becool:
 

MickeyBlueEyes

Eat, Sleep, Ride, Repeat.
Location
Derbyshire
A good start to the week. A 76miler yesterday and a 42 to start today off. Have something bigger in mind for tomorrow should plans fall into place, we'll see. Thursday will be the first car day in ages as I've got a hospital appointment, I did think of riding there but logistically it's too much of a headache and I wouldn't fancy leaving my pride and joy outside the gates.

Had some awesome fun down the A515 from Ashbourne this morning, had a guy in a HGV just sat behind me for miles keeping nobbers at bay whilst I had a blast. Gave him a big thumbs up as I exited a roundabout knowing he'd continue onto the A50, he gave a few toots of the horn in reply.
 
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GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
Remarkably it was most unremarkable. A section of my new preferred route had big 'road closed' signs so I took an extra chunk of NCN20, and took it in my stride. Very little traffic until I got to the work town end.

Four bikes, inc one going my way for a change, no babies no baskets.
 

w00hoo_kent

One of the 64K
Got a bike fit yesterday on the Synapse so was getting used to it today, some muscles doing a bit of extra stretching as the seats higher and the bars are lower among other things. Managed to have a kerb in an SUV try to shave my grip tape with his overtake. Had words at the lights (he chucked his ciggie out of the window as I was catching up and was drinking his mug of coffee as I came beside so his priorities were obvious). His take was 'as I was still on the road it couldn't have been that bad could it' I disagreed but it was a pointless exchange to just make me feel better to be honest. Rest of the ride was uneventful, will be a big trip home as I'm doing door to door for the first time this year.
 
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