Tales from today's commute....

[DWiggy]

Slightly extended ride in, lovely ride in with a few extra hills, great way to start the day

 

[Origamist]

Come back 'oop North

I'm back! However, I return to two long stretches of crappy surface dressing! Grit pinging everywhere, no road markings, and a juddery ride. At least the weather was great!

 

[azir]

Got myself into a minor pickle this morning - had been filtering on the right in slow/standstill traffic and then, once traffic was slightly moving again I wanted to move back over to the left. Found a gap in the cars and slotted in, no worries, but wanted to continue into the left hand cycle lane. Did a shoulder check and saw a cyclist coming at speed so let him go and went to follow him when he passed. The cyclist behind him though, rather than easing off slightly, decided to put the hammer down and stop me moving over - I ended up in no mans land between the cycle lane and secondary. Which was vaguely ok but not brilliant really - I'd usually slow down in these cases and slot in behind the speedy cyclist but I had no room to manoeuver with traffic following me.... We started to go over the junction like this and I really needed to turn left but he kept trying for the undertake! Was very annoying - just ease off dude, it'll all be fine! Managed through many shoulder checks and a long left turn signal to get it through his head that undertaking is not helpful. It was probably my fault in the first place for assuming that he'd let me in, but once the mistake was made he could have helped me out, I slow down for other cyclists all the time...

 

[Elybazza61]

Nice ride in;nothing happened at all;reckon I was too early for the idiots.

 

[steve292]

After tonights ride home-it will be104 miles commuting in 2 days & no troubles...shame I only get 5 weeks office hour days a year to do it in.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Set myself a new PB for the inbound journey, 113 miles with over 6500ft of climbing. The Peak District is an awesome place for getting some miles in. Munched my way through plenty of cake at lunch nom nom nom Think I may just do a standard ride home tonight.

 

[BSRU]

The local council has invested in some bus gate/lane cameras and one of them is on a route I take to work.
It's been there since Monday, today I saw my first driver using the bus gate/lane, ignoring all the signs clearly stating it is for buses/cycles only and the sign stating an enforcement camera is there.
I think the driver did not understand my "enjoy the fine" comment

 

[glenn forger]

It rained very hard yesterday, I rode home as the rain was easing but the roads were still soaked, the amount of crap I got on my bare legs was incredible, grit and muck all the way up my legs.

 

[Biscuit]

Bent me forks riding into the back of a van! Ooops. Van driver didn't even notice. . My fault, did a shoulder check during filtering but was too close. When I looked ahead the guy had stopped. Never mind. All ok here. The driver behind was laughing his head off. Must admit must have looked comical.

So I'll be handcrafting the forks back to their former glory this evening, and fitting a new headset.

 

[Learnincurve]

Is it wrong to hope that the people who park on the single yellow line in the cycle lane from tapton to the station in chesterfield all get a nasty case of the clap? I don't know why they park there, it is very clearly marked as a cycle lane, the only thing around on that stretch is businesses who all have their own parking and a 1 min walk round the corner there is the station with ample free parking and an empty lane leading nowhere they can use. Yes there are more dangerous things drivers can do but I'm struggling to think of anything more obnoxious.

 

[summerdays]

Evening commute HOT, so strappy top was the right choice!

And this morning I was passed by a nice Blue Rourke frame.

 

[BSRU]

I don't know what happened on my commute home but the last three miles just flew by, seemed to be doing between 20 to 30mph most of the way and it felt so easy.
Even gave a Bath CC rider a surprise as I went past him, no chance of SCR as the traffic was starting to get too heavy and I was about to turn off.
But I think some FCN points for me, beardy bloke with hairy legs.

 

[HLaB]

A real lazy 10mile commute for me roud by the Mere to Lidl and back to the flat.

 

[ianrauk]

Blimey, when is this warm, dry, windless weather commuting going to end? Is it set to last? Last time I had a rainy commute was the 28th of May.

Had to jump in between two idiot motons who were trying to bash lumps out of each other. They just stopped their cars in the middle of the road and started swinging and kicking. Think they got the surprise of their lives when a cyclist rode in between them shouting a very loud OI Enough! Get back in your cars!
I got 'it's his fault, tell HIM to get back in his car'... said didn't care who's fault it was but just give it up the pair of you. That seemed to have diffused the situation and they did get back in their cars. Donuts.

 

[Glow worm]

What is it with F*****g Volvo drivers. The stick attached to the steering column of your snotbucket is called an indicator - f*****g use it!
And relax.......