Tales from today's commute....

[BalkanExpress]

Try cycling up it on a hang over!
I went to Uni on the top of the hill in Canterburty so had to get up that hill most days.

Best up Eliot path....

...I'm sorry I appear to have come over all Frankie Howerd

 

[Ganymede]

Best up Eliot path....

...I'm sorry I appear to have come over all Frankie Howerd

I think a local hipster lad on a rather nice bike tried to direct me up this path but he wasn't a good explainer. I'm a good map reader/taker of directions but it wasn't where he said!

 

[Beebo]

Best up Eliot path....

...I'm sorry I appear to have come over all Frankie Howerd

I was a Keynes man, but did head up via Eliot now and then, but never via the Darwin steps.

I think a local hipster lad on a rather nice bike tried to direct me up this path but he wasn't a good explainer. I'm a good map reader/taker of directions but it wasn't where he said!

It was almost 20 years ago now, but there is a bit of faffing around the housing estate before you find the path.

 

[summerdays]

I wore my short wellies for my short commute. Neat, waterproof, not too heavy; a fetching shade of dull plum. I realise I'm in a minority here.

I've contemplated something like that before now.

 

[Ganymede]

I've contemplated something like that before now.

They're fine if you use flat pedals - mine are Hunters from before Hunters got quite so expensive - they have good treads which is great. It's one of the solutions I have for living in the country but going into town a lot - I actually bought them to wear in rainy spring and summer weather originally.

 

[Exile]

I wore my short wellies for my short commute. Neat, waterproof, not too heavy; a fetching shade of dull plum. I realise I'm in a minority here.

There's a bloke I'll sometimes see on my commute who wears wellies when it's wet. A few times I've felt a little envious, mostly when I've forgotten to wear my covers and have a day of soggy feet to look forwards to. If it works for him, who am I to judge his choice of footwear?

 

[summerdays]

The other thing I noticed on yesterday's commutes was the number fixing punctures, normally you occasionally see someone but yesterday I saw loads! They all seemed to be getting on with it. I assume it is related to the fact that on part of my commute, S.Glos had swept the path in the morning so it was clear of leaves, and then during the day they had cut back the hedges next to the path, so it was littered with debris.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

What is it about commuting that turns otherwise reasonable, decent people into idiots with no common sense? It's not restricted to motorists: many cyclists have this also, like the ones I saw on my ride home from work just now. Several of them did close overtakes and just didn't bother giving way to oncoming traffic on a shared path with many sharp (and sometimes also hilly) bends. One of them overtook me and only just missed me and an oncoming cyclist, then rode off as if this was ordinary.

Apart from these morons, who only seem to come out in fair weather, I had a nice enough commute, though. It looks like I'll probably total about 15,000km (with almost 200,000m climbing) by the end of this year, like I have the previous 4 years, and for the most part I've enjoyed it .

 

[Simontm]

Lovely ride in, if a tad slippery underneath. Numpty count: 1 - a mum needed a pointer about squeeze points and overtaking so I took a strong primary.

And to the cyclist who let me through a control barrier first but didn't appear to acknowledge my thanks - cheer up you miserable bugger, I'd done 12 miles by then!

 

[ianrauk]

A glorious mornings commute. Lovely blue sky, sunny, mild morning. Only blighted by the amount of traffic on the roads.

I had to have words with a woman on a sit up and beg. She decided that going down the left of TWO foreign coaches in a row was a good idea to do. I told her she really shouldn't do that as that's how cyclist get badly hurt. She just looked at me with a dumb blank expression on her face.

 

[Arjimlad]

Having to leave for work at 1015 this morning the roads were almost deserted, the sun was shining, and it was a lovely warm and dry ride to work.

Took it gently so as not to need a shower on arrival as well.

Total contrast to the normal commute !

 

[Beebo]

I overtook the same bloke 5 times this morning. He caught me up and jumped the red lights 5 times within the space of about 2 miles..

 

[Origamist]

Got absolutely soaked last night - first 8 miles were dry, but not the rest...

It was also dark when I got to Byley and had to put on my front light to see where I was going, but that was made more difficult by all the standing water and reflections....

Mild this morning and dry - hope it stays that way.

 

[confusedcyclist]

Been a while since I posted about moronic drivers in here, but today had two separate incidents of Audi drivers just cutting in to the cycle lane as I approached from behind with neither driver making any worthy progress to warrant such a manoeuvre. My opinion, cycle lanes need to be 100% segregated or not painted on the road at all. To much of false sense of security and totally unenforced.

 

[confusedcyclist]

I overtook the same bloke 5 times this morning. He caught me up and jumped the red lights 5 times within the space of about 2 miles..

Guess who's more likely to get wiped out at a set of lights... total tools!