Tales from today's commute....

[aferris2]

Last commute of the year today. Helpful tailwind in this morning (yes they do exist!) but cold, wet and windy coming home. I reached my goal for the year yesterday - 5500 miles so happy with that.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Wet ride home tonight

 

[ianrauk]

Wet ride home tonight

Vile commute. Dark, cold, windy, wet and far too much traffic.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Vile commute. Dark, cold, windy, wet and far too much traffic.

I had the wind, but it wasn't particularly cold, mind you I have been getting dressed up as if I'm riding in the artic!

 

[Randombiker9]

Totally random question. i commute on a Mountain bike. (Ive gone over glass by accident several times. Luckily it's never been punctured. I thought any sharp object would cause you to get a puncture or a mountain bike tyres a lot stronger then hybrid and road tyres? or is this just luck?. I'm not complaning.


ps also on the way home the last roundabout. It's ussually quiet. I looked right and veichles on roundabout to give way. Nothing But then as i started going straight driver came out from no where i don't think he had headlights on and almost went into me. :Luckily is was indicating but turned it on very late. so i managed to suddenly brake. Not helpful when it's dark and raining :/

 

[13 rider]

Wet ride home tonight

Yep I caught it as well

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yep I caught it as well

You should have taken the day off the bike

 

[13 rider]

You should have taken the day off the bike

Bike day off ??? You first

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Bike day off ??? You first

Age before beauty

 

[Spartak]

Strong crosswind on the M5 Avonmouth Bridge yesterday, the noise of the wind whistling through the railways was deafening.

 

[ianrauk]

Well, another couple of rainy commutes.
Last nights was especially vile as I mentioned above.
This mornings wasn't so bad as the rain wasn't so heavy, however the roads were all flooded.

So. scores on the doors.
Rainy commute 50 & 51 for the year to date.
Same period of time last year 31 rainy commutes with 31 over all.
I have 9 more commutes left this year so I guess there may be a couple of more wet ones.

I can safely say that 2018 has been the wettest year of commuting of the 12 years I have been keeping commuting records.

 

[Sixmile]

A dry but head-windy commute for me. The first 5 miles were especially slow then overtook 3 double decker buses in a row. I mean, why does one stop need so many half empty buses! I then was overtaken by one shortly after, so I overtook it, then a second one overtook me different from the first, then I overtook it, then it overtook me, I overtook it one last time, then it was away. The other two never caught me.

 

[Arjimlad]

Impatient driver backs off & waits, as I take primary to navigate 15 metres of flooded back road - only to overtake & force an oncoming car to brake once I'm back in secondary !!

Still, it was dryer than last night which was a good thing !

My overshoes aren't all that waterproof so I stuck some crisp packets over my socks which kept my toes dry and warm last night.

 

[Jenkins]

I've been fairly lucky the past week - all the rain has either been while I've been at work (this morning) or started within a few minutes of getting home (Saturday & Tuesday).

The only real problem is that the chain & cassette really need changing on the main commuter as they are badly worn (nearly 5000 miles on them from what I can work out!) so I'm having to skip the most used gear due to slippage under even moderate power. Hopefully this should be done sometime between Christmas & the New Year.

 

[Sixmile]

My overshoes aren't all that waterproof so I stuck some crisp packets over my socks which kept my toes dry and warm last night.

I find ready salted are the best for icy commutes.