Tales from today's commute....

[Simontm]

Daughter's ill so no commute today but it looks lovely out there

Hopefully gets some time on the bike this weekend, although it does need a clean - tooooo many squeaks for my liking!

 

[ianrauk]

Very cold again, frozen water bottle again TFI Friday.

Yup had the same.. went to take a drink at some lights.. lol yeah right....I could see the occupant of the car beside me looking at me in a weird way whilst I was banging the bottle on the handle bars to break the ice.


Rear disc brake cable froze again today so will have to strip that down tomorrow and get more lube in there.

 

[Gains84]

First off of the year today, route was mainly dry but within the space of 1 T junction changed to smegging sheet ice and down i went. I must have 3 very protruding bones on/around my knee as I have fallen off on ice 4 times in the last 4 years, all to the right hand side and each time the same 3 wounds - fortunately my legs were still cold enough when i eventually got to work that i could tear all the skin off and not feel it - free local anaesthetic bonus!!

 

[John_S]

Morning All,

It was a very chilly morning for todays commute but apart from my hands everything else was toasty warm once I got going.

The ride to work was fine apart from a SMIDSY by a lady driver who had not cleared their side windows properly and they proceeded to have a blooming good attempt to take me out. I was cycling along a main B road and they were coming out of a side road to my left. I was carrying straight ahead on the B road and I was already passing the point at the road whereby I could have turned left when a lady pulled out right in front of me. They then looked startled as I was bearing down on their drivers door and I had to manoeuvre into the side road around the back of their car narrowly avoiding their rear bumper.

It definitely got my heart pumping and as usual with SMIDSY the fact that I was wearing hi-vis, had two lights on the front of my bike plus one on my helmet makes no difference whatsoever because seemingly the bicycle shaped objects with the human being on top of them have some sort of cloaking device and are invisible to some drivers.

Hope that everybody else stays safe on this cold day for the bike.

John

 

[Arjimlad]

I had a five mile ride to breakfast at the Beefeater at Emerson's Green for 7am today. It was minus 3.6 when I set out.

After breakfast I got back on the bike at 0845 and there was frost on the saddle !

I had to negotiate an icy lane so unclipped & went very carefully. Heard of another cyclist breaking a hip falling on the icy Bristol to Bath Path earlier this week!

 

[mythste]

Bought my first ever pair of cycling shorts yesterday (Endura pro gel from halfords, had some vouchers that needed using!) and it took a bit of getting used to! Positioning one's gentleman area whilst "in" is something I imagine you acquire a knack for. Never the less, much more comfortable on the way in! Beautiful sunrise from about 7.45, a little ice but most of it easy to spot.

Rain forecast on the way back mind. So still time for it to be ruined!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Had

Yup had the same.. went to take a drink at some lights.. lol yeah right....I could see the occupant of the car beside me looking at me in a weird way whilst I was banging the bottle on the handle bars to break the ice.


Rear disc brake cable froze again today so will have to strip that down tomorrow and get more lube in there.

I've had no problems with the disc brakes, though I have been on the Sirrus all week and it is hydraulics. Only issue I have is my hands were that cold this morning I couldn't feel the brake levers and a couple of times I stopped quicker than I intended.

 

[Butty1972]

Brass. Monkeys. That is all...
Actually no it isn't all. I need some winter tights and better gloves..

 

[donnydave]

Was fed up with cycling so drove in today, the wife took car A so I was relegated to car B, could not for the life of me get it started, then after about 15 tries I remembered its got this crazy old thing called a "choke"

 

[ianrauk]

Was fed up with cycling so drove in today, the wife took car A so I was relegated to car B, could not for the life of me get it started, then after about 15 tries I remembered its got this crazy old thing called a "choke"

Why fed up?

 

[donnydave]

Why fed up?

I enjoy the "beating nature" aspect of cycling in the cold/dark/rain but just wanted a day off from being treated as a nobody by other road users, had more close calls than usual recently.

Just need to regroup and then back on maximum attack next week, its almost light on the way home now


Thanks for asking

 

[ianrauk]

I enjoy the "beating nature" aspect of cycling in the cold/dark/rain but just wanted a day off from being treated as a nobody by other road users, had more close calls than usual recently.

Just need to regroup and then back on maximum attack next week, its almost light on the way home now


Thanks for asking

Try not to let the bastards grind ya down..

 

[summerdays]

Yup had the same.. went to take a drink at some lights.. lol yeah right....I could see the occupant of the car beside me looking at me in a weird way whilst I was banging the bottle on the handle bars to break the ice.


Rear disc brake cable froze again today so will have to strip that down tomorrow and get more lube in there.

How would it help having bits of ice rather than a lump? Though the image made me smile

 

[ianrauk]

How would it help having bits of ice rather than a lump? Though the image made me smile

The nozzle was frozen with ice. Once I broke the ice, what water that wasn't frozen I could get at.

 

[summerdays]

Mr Summerdays decided to give me a lift 90% of the way! but it wasn't till I set off by bike that I thought about the next bit. Steep down hill, so I kept my speed under 10 mph due to being worried about ice and didn't want to add to the windchill! And I wore my down coat. I was feeling cold (well feet and hands when I arrived at my destination. The return journey was quite a bit warmer.