Tales from today's commute....

[Beebo]

Pedestrian tried to blame me saying I was going to fast.

Bad luck Ian, the ped sounds like a nobber.

 

[ianrauk]

Bad luck Ian, the ped sounds like a nobber.

Yup, he was. Didn't even apologise even when pointed out to him by a witness that he was in the wrong.

 

[fossyant]

[QUOTE 2153721, member: 1314"]Brakes used: 1 (lightly)
Stopped: 11
Drivers told to cheerfully self-reproduce: 0[/quote]

I pity your knees !

 

[PJ79LIZARD]

Because it had been milder of late decided to drop my winter coat, stept out the door and realised that was not a wise move, cold this morning and the fog as set in now.

 

[400bhp]

Bollox

2 left hooks in the space of 100 m.

2nd one - taxi suddenly pulls to a stop in front of me in a cycle lane with an unbroken white line. Had enough at that point and told him he was a feckin idiot.

This on the same commute as some woman did a half assed attempt to pull in front of me from a side junction across the lane and ended up stuck in the middle of the road.

 

[fossyant]

Bollox

Thanks for asking, they are still sore

 

[Arjimlad]

Offed by a non looking, headphone wearing pedestrian today.
Filtering through traffic ped just steps out from the left between two cars and straight into me knocking me over.

Landed on my bad knee , my elbow and wrist.
No damage to the bike apart from twisted leaver which was easy righted.

Pedestrian tried to blame me saying I was going to fast.
I was probs doing about 10mph tops.
I said if I had been a motorbike then he would have come out of it a lot worse.
Then a driver stopped to say he saw it, said it was the peds fault and that he should have been taking more care when crossing the road.

When I say "like" I am referring to the helpful driver witness.

Hope you feel better soon !

 

[fimm]

Yesterday evening - at least two nice drivers lets me move out into the lane they were in so I could pass cars parked in the bus lane (I was looking back in plently of time to locate a space, and I'm sure that in both cases there was a deliberate hold back to let me out. Particularly impressed with the man in the very nice and expensive looking executive saloon (not a BMW or an Audi but that sort of thing) who I was expecting to hurry along to get to the lights before they changed.

They more than balanced out the impatient so-and-so who came down the bus lane to the left turn lane and then went straight on at high speed. Fortunately that's not the first time I've seen that done at that junction and the minute I saw him I guessed that was what he was going to do...

 

[Christopher]

Interesting commute home last night - local farmer is taking advantage of the dry weather to frantically work his fields, so pulled off the cycleway to let a huge tractor and trailer pass - this at about 6PM and there was another machine doing something in the field under a battery of lights. Busy busy!

Lovely ride in this morning, stopped a couple of times to clean the rear wheel and look at the view. Sky very pretty at dawn, sun was lighting up the clouds and the jet contrails...

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

What I thought was a PUNCTURE awaiting me when I collected my bike after work, doesn't appear to be one after all. Perhaps I didn't tighten the valve enough.

I'm not doing very well this week.

Perhaps someone loosened it for you.

 

[400bhp]

I know........

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Nah, nothings feeling bad.
As I said, was going pretty slow so managed to soften the blow with my knee and arm/hand

So bloody common,I did a bt of trick fixie cycling coming off of Blackfriars Bridge due to peds crossing the
road without looking while staring into their mobile phones.

 

[fossyant]

I know........

Potsy ?

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

Potsy ?

 

[400bhp]