Tales from today's commute....

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I like Skol

A Minging Manc...
Pretty cold this morning...and wet.

The forecast told me there was little chance of rain before 8am. They were wrong.:rain: I didn't have my winter boots on so my feet got a soaking. They won't dry off before the homeward leg. I'll try and find a newspaper to stuff in them later.
Hah! You must have been heading the wrong way. My ride home was relatively dry, just started trying for the last few minutes before getting in at 8am so I escaped unscathed :tongue:
That's my last shift for the week so on the whole, despite some atrocious weather I think the scores for man V's nature are 4-0 to me. I don't think @potsy did quite so well :whistle:

The week has held my interest with a couple of incidents to prevent boredom. The wind and rain has to be mentioned first, two fast but wet rides home with the wind from hell at my heels. A couple of half-hearted left hook attempts from nitwits that just seem to wake up and realise how cretinous they are being partway through the manoeuvre and then panic and freeze, blocking the road for everyone :angry:. The icing on the cake happened this morning though. I was belting through Denton/Crown Point, almost daylight but lights on anyway when a nobber cyclist who actually looked fairly serious (matt grey hybrid, decent helmet (if such a thing exists?) well fitting hi-viz cycle jacket) just rode out of a side street right at me to join the road in my direction! If I hadn't moved over he would certainly have collided with me. He just assumed I was going to make room for him. Luckily I knew the road behind me was clear but he wasn't to know I had that awareness but carried on regardless. Honestly I wish I had just knocked him off.... NOBBER :cursing:
 

Supersuperleeds

Legendary Member
Location
Leicester
Much better weather this morning compared to yesterday, think it is time to ditch the summer socks though, feet were a tad cold when I got to work this morning.
 

MickeyBlueEyes

Eat, Sleep, Ride, Repeat.
Location
Derbyshire
I used the 'arrive two hours early' trick again this morning and didn't get wet, well not as such. With a dry, even sunny afternoon forecast I came in on my bestie. What I'd not really thought much about was how wet the roads were and got splattered all the way in, completely undoing the nice clean and polish I gave it on Sunday.
 

Arjimlad

Tights of Cydonia
Location
South Glos
Loaded my daughter into the child seat on my hybrid, and then noticed flat front tyre !

I had pumped it up to recommended pressure on Sunday afternoon so no idea what's gone wrong there.

I had to drive her to nursery (bah!) but got back home & jumped on the road bike for a nice 6 miles into work. Glad the promised heavy showers did not appear.
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I was expecting a couple of showers on the way in and couldn't be bothered to stop to pull on waterproofs so set off with waterproof top and bottoms. As a result the rain cloud obviously took a detour and I stayed dry. But so cold out there, actually I was glad I had them on as I wasn't wearing enough underneath to keep me warm! I've still not made the mental shift from summer!

Cycled along a one way road, double parked with cars (Brynland Ave), and the motorist decided to try to use a small gap to accelerate by .... all they succeeded in doing was an emergency stop before they hit the next parked car. For some reason I slowed down a little!:whistle:
 

Origamist

Legendary Member
Colder and wetter than yesterday morning, but a tad less windy - still slower than normal and a soggy old slog.

Autumn is back with a vengeance - more rain in the last 36 hours than for all of Sept, I'd hazard.
 
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GrasB

Veteran
Location
Nr Cambridge
Wetish ride in, just a few local showers but the winter outer soft shell layers shrugged it off. The problem is the lack of rain & the appearance of the sun, 12-13C is about the maximum temps for the kit I have.
 

dee.jay

Network Ninja
Location
Wales
I actually was really lucky this morning - quick shower and that was it. I'm going to give myself a break for this week - I.e. Stick to just commuting - in Saturday next, and give my body a chance to relax. 8 x 5-6 mile rides in 4 days - I'm not used to it yet, but I managed it well enough this week :-)
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
I put the waterproofs on as it was rain as I was about to set off back, but I must have just caught the tail end as I managed to follow a rainbow home. Tipped down soon after! Ended up chatting to the owner of an Ice Trike at Emersons Green for a while.
 

Sheffield_Tiger

Legendary Member
Wondered why a short commute seemed such a slog yesterday and this morning....should have been flying, clear-headed and sober for October...
..the answer came to me at about 3pm this afternoon with shivers, cough and sore throat
 

summerdays

Cycling in the sun
Location
Bristol
Wondered why a short commute seemed such a slog yesterday and this morning....should have been flying, clear-headed and sober for October...
..the answer came to me at about 3pm this afternoon with shivers, cough and sore throat
I'm in the same boat and ended up making some questionable decisions today, broke my own rule about never crossing the motorway slip road junction when it wasn't green for me, (I never do that due to the speed they leave the motorway,), and one junction very parked up, met a van struggling to turn in and wanted me to shift, and somehow I exited on the wrong side and kept going and passed 3 stationary cars on the left! That's when you realise you aren't cycling to your normal standards. So just having a medicinal hot toddy now.
 

steveindenmark

Legendary Member
I did a 21 mile commute on the way home. Mostly into head winds and patchy rain. But I feel fine. That cant be right.

Summer was so long ago.

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