Tales from today's commute....

[Spartak]

Warm ride into work this morning - garden thermometer was ready 17 degrees when I left at 0420 !
Took a more unlit route than normal to try out my newly acquired Hope Vision front light.
Worked very well along dark lanes giving me a good tract of light even on the middle setting & with its quoted battery life seems to be a good purchase 8-)

 

[martint235]

Quite cool in the Riverside park this morning. Also I think today may have been the last commute without lights! Bugger where did the summer go??

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Misty and eerily quiet this morning. Down one section I went for about 4 miles listening to the sound of absolutely nothing, 'twas bootiful.

 

[Hop3y]

Got a lift in, the first time in 2 months. Gutted - but it means I can take the bike away as we're going camping this weekend!

Woo

 

[BSRU]

Another good commute, dull and overcast but warm and dry.

Classic "must get in front muppetry" this morning, me doing about 32mph(downhill) in a 30mph zone with cockwomble driver attempting to overtake me as we approach a narrowing of the road(car parked on opposite of the road).
The cockwomble overtakes me, giving me road position advice, and 100 metres later turns left into a dead end

Later a guy on a learner moped trying to justify the illegal use of a bus and bicycle only right turn, no idea what he said.

 

[smutchin]

So, you' re in your car, approaching this junction. It's a narrow road, and a blind bend, and there's a cyclist (i.e. me) ahead of you, signalling to turn right and already moving out towards the centre of the road. What do you do?

You overtake, of course.

FFS.

 

[Hop3y]

Really impressive job from city worker, road kill was gone in less than 4 hours. I wonder how they handle such things?
Dead gopher on the road no one picks it up and we try to avoid running over it, bigger animal it gets cleaned up.

How big an animal does it take to get the city to clean it up? Who do you call?

Ghostbusters. Sorry.

 

[Ganymede]

Took the bike on the train we me today as I was meeting someone at Rotherhithe and thought I'd pootle along by the river. All very nice, except when I got there I found out they thought I was coming next Friday so they weren't there. Pootled back to London Bridge, got back on train. Meh. But the river looked wonderful as usual.

 

[hennbell]

Saw a snake on the road today, just a Garter snake but still a snake.

 

[Exile]

Planned for a quick dart this evening, was changed and unlocking the bike by just gone five past five. All was going well. Then I noticed something looked off about the front end of the bike. Somebody, for reasons known only to themselves, had unhooked the noodle on my front brakes. Cue a thorough inspection of the bike from nose to tail.

Didn't find anything else as dangerous, but it's not the first time bikes parked at work have been tampered with this week, but it's certainly escalated from Monday's antics of making changes to seat post heights. That fell well at the "prank" end of the scale, whereas disconnecting brakes and damaging tyres (not on my bike, but a couple of the lads have had blow-outs from suspiciously neat looking sidewall damage) is getting to be less of a laughing matter. Reported it to the building reception, who will pass it on to someone else, who'll pass it on to someone else, and we know exactly how much will get done...

Once I was on the roads, everything seemed fine, no drivers tried to kill me, although one oncoming taxi didn't quite give way through a narrowed bit of road when I had priority, but what's new there? I'm just a cyclist, after all

 

[summerdays]

Planned for a quick dart this evening, was changed and unlocking the bike by just gone five past five. All was going well. Then I noticed something looked off about the front end of the bike. Somebody, for reasons known only to themselves, had unhooked the noodle on my front brakes. Cue a thorough inspection of the bike from nose to tail.

That's not funny at all, if work don't do anything is it worth calling in the police, even if it's only to have a look around and hopefully make the person realise it's a serious matter? Is the bike locked up within the work premises so that it has to be a work colleague?

 

[palinurus]

Looking good for tomorrow's ride in, I'm thinking up early for a mostly off-road commute.

 

[Exile]

That's not funny at all, if work don't do anything is it worth calling in the police, even if it's only to have a look around and hopefully make the person realise it's a serious matter? Is the bike locked up within the work premises so that it has to be a work colleague?

Generally the building management (it's a multi-company site) are pretty receptive to those who cycle in, so fingers crossed the cynicism in my last post is totally unfounded. We might even get the secure cage we were promised around the bike stands. I'll be checking with the building manager tomorrow to make sure the issue has been passed along.

I think it's probably someone who works in the building myself. The bikes are locked up in the car park so it's not entirely secure, but they're tucked away some ways away from the entrance and can't be seen from the road. Anyway, I doubt someone off the street would be able to walk across the car park without being noticed, especially as I've been challenged doing the same before now as the company I work for has a casual dress code, and jeans/t-shirts aren't all that common across the building. It only seems to be us and a PPI claims company who moved in a month or two ago which don't insist on shirts and smart trousers.

Just have to see how it plays out. If anything happens this week though I think we'll be needing the local police involved.

 

[MisterStan]

Lovely morning today; cool but sunny. Had the pleasure of @kevin_cambs_uk 's company for most of the commute.

 

[DWiggy]

Stunning morning, even stopped to take a pic although the resulting photo doesn't do it justice, fog + sunrise = an awesome combination