Tales from today's commute....

[MisterStan]

Hey @MisterStan and @martinclive you are famous on the busway, I was bimbling along and a bloke called Adam (who I've met before when we both gave up chasing someone and settled down for a chat) asked "do you commute along here every day?"
me "yes almost every day",
him - "you must know Stan and Martin then"

Mr Scrivner? Yes, we know him. Big (massive) guy on a white Giant!

 

[MichaelO]

First was between Mitcham and Figgs Marsh...Land Rover comes along side, with not much free space in the lane. I somehow cycle over a stone which pings out and cracks his passenger door- what a noise!. I think he thinks I have kicked or hit his car, queue him cutting me off and we pull to a crawl. At this stage I expect a barney, but he starts to drive off again. Continues to weave back and forward to the kerb, until we reach the bus lane where I sail by him now sat in traffic..

Was that at about 7.45ish this morning? I was cycling along there, with 2-3 other cyclists and went ahead from the lights just as you get to the lights at Figge's Marsh. A couple of hundred yards down the road, by the old garage on the left, I heard a huge bang from behind and a car slowing up - I looked back, but couldn't tell what was going on.

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Another irritating cyclist on CS3 on Cable Street at the Crown & Dolphin lights. Long queue waiting on red for lights to change for us cyclists when wally(could you worse word) wearing headphones and a bandana who most of us had just overtaken goes passed us all and sits on front of queue. Lights change and he holds us all up. Jump on road which runs parallel to overtake with a number of other cyclist. As I pass i ask why he didnt wait to which he answers "Why".

Would it have been reasonable for me to kick the proverbial out of him at this point and say "thats why"

 

[Ace Ventura]

Was that at about 7.45ish this morning? I was cycling along there, with 2-3 other cyclists and went ahead from the lights just as you get to the lights at Figge's Marsh. A couple of hundred yards down the road, by the old garage on the left, I heard a huge bang from behind and a car slowing up - I looked back, but couldn't tell what was going on.

Yep that was me- the noise was like a gunshot! I remember 2 guys together, and an older guy slightly behind, who had got to the bike box by the lights at the roundabout. Which one were you?!

 

[MisterStan]

Yep that was me- the noise was like a gunshot! I remember 2 guys together, and an older guy slightly behind, who had got to the bike box by the lights at the roundabout. Which one were you?!

Hopefully not the one you just described as older!

 

[Ace Ventura]

Hopefully not the one you just described as older!

proverbial slip

 

[MichaelO]

I hope I wasn't the older one
I filtered into the box from the right while the lights were red & set off with another fella - so probably one of the "two guys together". When the lights changed I found myself further out in the lane than I'd have liked & moved back in (probably in front of you) as the bang happened. I was on a white Specialized...

 

[donnydave]

Mr Scrivner? Yes, we know him. Big (massive) guy on a white Giant!

That's the chap. Coincidentally my art teacher at secondary school was called Mr Scrivner and his brother (presumably also Mr Scrivner) was one of the local driving examiners. There was no correlation between attention paid in art class and driving test pass rate despite the rumours. Don't know why that just came to me but Scrivner's not a particularly common name. That is all.

 

[kevin_cambs_uk]

Hey @MisterStan and @martinclive you are famous on the busway, I was bimbling along and a bloke called Adam (who I've met before when we both gave up chasing someone and settled down for a chat) asked "do you commute along here every day?"
me "yes almost every day",
him - "you must know Stan and Martin then"

I have been asked if I know those three guys that cycle along the busway, one wears a skull cap...

Its my claim to fame!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

The two miles of thick fog on this mornings commute was child's play compared to tonights ride. Very very misty, a good eight or nine miles of it, three times I lost the road and nearly came off, if I'd have known how bad it was I would have taken a short route home.

Then about a mile from home a car comes by me giving me enough room, what the numpty didn't give enough room to though was the pinch point ahead of us, sounded like a bomb going off when his rear tyre let go after he clipped the kerb.

 

[Glow worm]

Lovely clear night coming home with the sky full of stars once I'd escaped the light pollution of Cambridge. Lovely.
Incident free too, apart from a slightly odd thing. By the park and ride, a fellow on the crappy cycle path i ignore, suddenly jumped onto the road right in front of me without looking. It was ok, I managed to brake in time. He was wearing quite a distinctive (awful) woolly blue bobble hat.

Anyways, I sat on his wheel for a bit (remarkably, he was even slower than me) until the airport roundabout, where I stopped for a call of nature ( I may have had a swift half after work). Once I got near Quy, there was the same hat, lying in the road leading to the Quy Mill hotel. How on earth can you not notice your hat falling off?! Anyway, I left it in a very visible spot by the traffic lights at Quy church in case he comes back for it.

 

[Origamist]

Colder tonight, about 1-2C, with freezing fog. Was glad to get home without incident.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Alright, who put that there? I just noticed about 30 minutes after riding home from work (Yay! It's Friday), that I have a very well-formed "chain-link tattoo" on the inside of my right calf. I have no idea how it got there .

 

[fossyant]

On the train today. Out for a few beers from work.

Weekend job is check the fixed BB. Just started to get a little squeek from it. Suspect it's worn and will check for play with the chain off. It has done 6 years of commuting in all weather without trouble

 

[summerdays]

Last nights ride I was obviously in helpful mode, as first I had to give directions from Horfield to Fishponds, and then I met a youngish girl (10-12 ish) crying and decided I ought to ask, turned out she had fallen and cut her finger whilst walking her dog. I gave her a wipe and two plasters though the cut didn't look that bad, but I decided she wanted sympathy.

This morning apart from being wet hasn't been significant other than seeing a long articulated lorry that I thought was turning right into the road I was in, instead do a full U-turn in the junction. I was amazed that he made it. The road was about 3 lanes wide at that point complete with traffic light posts which he managed to avoid!