Tales from today's commute....

[fossyant]

Fecking young'ish lads. Walking on the busy pavement this lunch to get some shopping, hear an 'excuse me'. Anyway 20 odd year old on a stunt bike, saddle on the floor job. As he passes I say 'should be on the road mate' (heh heh). Told me to shut up, then pedalled of, and turned round and said 'make me' - I just smiled. Scum ! I'll cut yer brake cable next time !

 

[GrasB]

22 miles of beautiful sunshine this morning. Traffic was well behaved too. We took a different route into town, filtering on the right hand side down Madingley hill was an absolute treat - 30 mph for most of it. Cars probably averaging 5mph.

Only 30mph down Madingley hill? Taking it very easy then.

 

[MisterStan]

Only 30mph down Madingley hill? Taking it very easy then.

Put your willy away please. There's kids about.

 

[GrasB]

Put your willy away please. There's kids about.

Only because jealous

Seriously though, 30mph sounds like free wheeling territory to me. It's a nice bit of road that.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

25mph faster than the cars I'm overtaking would be a big enough speed differential for me.

 

[GrasB]

Which is a good reason for taking it easy

 

[Hacienda71]

Suffering from a horrendous cold and sore throat last 48 hours. Didn't ride yesterday and decided to ride but at a slow pace today. Seemed ok, will see if I suffer for it later.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Once every few months, whilst running downhill in primary towards the mini-roundabout on London Road, Cuckfield, where I will turn left for Haywards Heath, a car will attempt to overtake me. Especially if there is a car coming the other way.

Today was one such morning. A Mazda people carrier of some sort. When they drew alongside I realised their left hand indicator was on; eek! They were going to turn left too but "must get past" had kicked in. The only redeeming feature of this morning's knobjockery was that they had the good grace to give me a very wide berth and to bail out of the overtake, via hard braking and tucking behind me, without swerving into me. Then they had to stare at my 'arris all the way down London Lane and onto Broad Street. Before they roared past in a fit of indignation at about 20mpg over the speed limit at which I gave a cheery wave. I caught them again at the edge of Haywards Heath.

 

[GrasB]

Before they roared past in a fit of indignation at about 20mpg over the speed limit at which I gave a cheery wave.

at 20mpg? They were close enough to see the current fuel economy?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Looked like it was getting ready to chuck it down as I left work. So put the pack cover over the rucksack, put the Satmap into its boot, after half a mile or so you guessed it, lovely and sunny

Forecast to rain tomorrow though

 

[ianrauk]

Starting to rain now... an hour after I got home in warm sunshine, though was a little bit windy.

Felt a bit embarrassed and a bit of a cock tonight. Over took a woman roadie at the start of Bromley Hill, into a head wind. I over took and said that happy to help out and be a wind break, she said thanks, so off I went. Top of the hill I looked back and saw she was way back. Ooops. She must have thought I was a right show off git. So sorry if you are reading lady on the Trek heading north on the A21. It wasn't intentional.

This evenings commute meant I reached 5000 miles for the year.Half way to my years target.

 

[400bhp]

Suffering from a horrendous cold and sore throat last 48 hours. Didn't ride yesterday and decided to ride but at a slow pace today. Seemed ok, will see if I suffer for it later.

:checks strava:

 

[400bhp]

I think someone is feeding me PEDS \t the moment. I feel FANTASTIC.

I wonder if some structured training would make me feel like this more often rather than it being random.

 

[fossyant]

I think someone is feeding me PEDS \t the moment. I feel FANTASTIC.

I wonder if some structured training would make me feel like this more often rather than it being random.

Tailwind home......

 

[Hacienda71]

:checks strava:

Felt a tad better in the afternoon.