Tales from today's commute....

[BSRU]

An excellent 52km ride in this morning.

Experienced the best and longest SCR ever, for me.
The other rider, the guy on a Giant carbon road bike who I couldn't stay with when I previously met him in the winter, me on the tourer or CX bike with studded tyres. I always thought one day we'll meet when I on the road bike.
Today it happened, 7.7km with 150m of going up, the best part being the last 4.2km is a cat 4 climb with 124m of going up, with about 1km of that 4.2km flat or downhill. My quickest time for that 7.7km segment at 16 minutes, 2 minutes faster than my previous best.
Steadily but slowly pulled away on the part before the climb, but I think he may have blown up on the climb.
At about 2.5km from the end there is a junction, left continues up the climb but right goes down hill.
I know they turned left up the climb because I could see their flashing light when I looked back and in the video from the rear camera.
I was no longer slowly pulling away, I was just pulling away.
I got to the top of the hill and turned around to go back down(what I usually do).
I cycled down the climb but the other rider was nowhere to be seen, so I can only assume they have given up on the climb and turned around.

It has certainly made my day, shows all those miles have had some effect especially as I felt very good at the top of the climb.

 

[Origamist]

Must have been a tailwind as I averaged 20mph this morning. I also think the new wheels and tyres are good for a bit of extra speed too...

 

[GrasB]

I'm starting to get VERY bored with car commutes.. but today I got to ride in... it was a quiet one so managed to ramp up my miles & effort a little more than usual ... now I feel all

 

[ushills]

Not today, but first ever commute to the train station last Friday, 6 miles each way and along a canal for 5.5 miles of the route.

Baking hot day and was still sweating in the office after a 40 minute train journey, strange really, I just think the office was hot and my internal plumbing had activated in preparation for some exertion.

Going to repeat this Thursday and hoping for a cooler start, got to work feeling like I'd lost 20 years.

 

[J.Primus]

I got my fingers burnt today trying to save money. I thought I'd buy some inner tubes from eBay and save a bit of cash. Got 4 for £10 and thought I had a great bargain.
Cycling to work this morning after fitting it yesterday and it exploded whilst I was overtaking a lorry at 20mph nearly throwing me off.
Feel a bit silly for buying cheap parts and thinking it would be ok
Lesson learnt I've been down the shop and bought some proper ones for £5 each and fitted it for my cycle home.
Last time I do that anyway!

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

ball busting head wind nearly 15 miles of it.

 

[fossyant]

Another 31 miler return commute. Sussing the new building out, and us cyclists are mithering the pants off the bosses to find somewhere for our damp kit.

Got passed by a guy I usually give a good kicking too, this morning, and two other roadies tonight. This never happens. Totally exhausted at the moment. The sooner I get my endocrinologists referral the better. Going slower and slower.

 

[fossyant]

Found a few more flaws with our cycling facility. The access door doesnt self close, so someone had left it open this morning.

Went over at lunch to put up a couple of reminder notices. Within the parking, there is a fire escape. This should be magnetically locked. I tried the door handle and it opened to the street - there is a door handle on the outside. Had anyone tried it, they could have got in easy. Fortunately there is a knob that can be turned to lock the door, so I locked it. A quick email alerting all the cyclists to check it and to the Facilities team as this is a major oversight.

 

[Grendel]

I got off the train and cycled home this morning. Unfortunately it was into a headwind and it took me around 54 minutes to do about 8.65 miles.
Tonight I cycled 12.5 miles in the opposite direction in 45 minutes. Much better.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It's amazing how warm 10°C feels when it was 1°C at the same time last week. It made my ride to work very pleasant, with the in-between temperature that's ideal for cycling .

 

[ianrauk]

It's amazing how warm 10°C feels when it was 1°C at the same time last week. It made my ride to work very pleasant, with the in-between temperature that's ideal for cycling .

Blimey.. isn't that a bot cold for the colonies?

 

[Shut Up Legs]

No, pretty standard for Melbourne in mid-Winter.

 

[ianrauk]

No, pretty standard for Melbourne in mid-Winter.

OK, didn't know that.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Just to clarify: it hasn't been that low all this month, last week was just a bit nippy, that's all. The month looks like this, so far, for my particular suburb of Melbourne:

Tue 01/07/2014     7.0
Wed 02/07/2014     8.8
Thu 03/07/2014     7.0
Fri 04/07/2014     8.2
Sat 05/07/2014     9.1
Sun 06/07/2014     9.5
Mon 07/07/2014     7.8
Tue 08/07/2014     9.2
Wed 09/07/2014     8.0
Thu 10/07/2014     4.9
Fri 11/07/2014     6.9
Sat 12/07/2014     5.2
Sun 13/07/2014     3.8
Mon 14/07/2014     6.5
Tue 15/07/2014     5.5
Wed 16/07/2014     8.8
Thu 17/07/2014     7.4
Fri 18/07/2014     5.4
Sat 19/07/2014     7.6
Sun 20/07/2014     6.7
Mon 21/07/2014     2.6
Tue 22/07/2014     1.3
Wed 23/07/2014     3.5
Thu 24/07/2014     1.9
Fri 25/07/2014     8.9
Sat 26/07/2014     10.6
Sun 27/07/2014     7.1
Mon 28/07/2014     9.8
Tue 29/07/2014     10.9

[edit] To clarify again, the above figures are minima, not maxima.

 

[ianrauk]

yup that looks a typical Brit winter month.