Your ride today.... (part 1)
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mr Mag00
rising member
- Location
- Deepest Dorset
cant todayt have people coming around to see the house my only opportunity for a day time ride this week 
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Soooo mild tonight 
Into the dark dark countryside east of Peterborough alongside the river nene.
I hate...and love night riding. No-one about, mile after mile of empty cycleways...but then you can only see what's in your lit area, a bit boring in some ways. Mind, the thought of losing concentration and going in the river in the dark tends to sharpen your senses
Where i've used the roads today, everyone's been very well behaved. Even an oncoming bus stopped to wait for me...he had right of way, and i had no right to be there (bus only section of road) I do wonder if he thought i was a PCSO. I stopped short and waved him forward...it is his road at that point.
Pleasure to ride today. Dont care how far or fast, just a pleasure
Into the dark dark countryside east of Peterborough alongside the river nene.
I hate...and love night riding. No-one about, mile after mile of empty cycleways...but then you can only see what's in your lit area, a bit boring in some ways. Mind, the thought of losing concentration and going in the river in the dark tends to sharpen your senses
Where i've used the roads today, everyone's been very well behaved. Even an oncoming bus stopped to wait for me...he had right of way, and i had no right to be there
(bus only section of road) I do wonder if he thought i was a PCSO. I stopped short and waved him forward...it is his road at that point.Pleasure to ride today. Dont care how far or fast, just a pleasure
Joe24
More serious cyclist than Bonj
- Location
- Nottingham
18miles done in 1:01:11. Bit slow, but was slippy out so wasnt going too hard.
Had some idiot in a Jaguar sit as close as he could when i was trackstanding at lights. I turned around and stared at him, looked at my back wheel and started moving back. Kept moving back untill my backwheel was really close to his number plate, about an inch away, looked at him then when the lights changed to green i moved off. He sat far back, didnt overtake when i thought he was, and sat way back at the next set of lights. Then when he did pass he passed very wide.
Had some idiot in a Jaguar sit as close as he could when i was trackstanding at lights. I turned around and stared at him, looked at my back wheel and started moving back. Kept moving back untill my backwheel was really close to his number plate, about an inch away, looked at him then when the lights changed to green i moved off. He sat far back, didnt overtake when i thought he was, and sat way back at the next set of lights. Then when he did pass he passed very wide.
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Here's a thought...
I ride almost every evening in the rush hour traffic. Its only Peterborough, but high volume traffic is high volume, wherever you are...isnt it ?
Either the motorists in Peterborough are really quite good, or i have unwittingly gained command of the space around me. I havnt had a bad commute (bar one taxi driver who was a tad too close) in so long...i cant remember.
Anyways (hoping it doesnt go all awry soon)...good ride tonight, mild, with a gentle to moderate southerly wind.
Are all cyclists closet weathermen
We talk at work...one of the women always want to know what the weathers doing, so she can get her washing in 
. She relys on my forecast...poor girl
I cant believe how many guys are out there cycling on paths and cycling with no lights...ah well, here's hoping they dont give us all a bad name.
I ride almost every evening in the rush hour traffic. Its only Peterborough, but high volume traffic is high volume, wherever you are...isnt it ?
Either the motorists in Peterborough are really quite good, or i have unwittingly gained command of the space around me. I havnt had a bad commute (bar one taxi driver who was a tad too close) in so long...i cant remember.
Anyways (hoping it doesnt go all awry soon)...good ride tonight, mild, with a gentle to moderate southerly wind.
Are all cyclists closet weathermen
We talk at work...one of the women always want to know what the weathers doing, so she can get her washing in . She relys on my forecast...poor girl I cant believe how many guys are out there cycling on paths and cycling with no lights...ah well, here's hoping they dont give us all a bad name.
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Now i feel the need to take care on the roads...greasy, slippery and in the mornings..icy 
Those manhole covers look awfullly slippery. I'm getting a complex about them 
Good few miles tonight, good patient motorists, but i've noticed one set of traffic lights that's ALWAYS against me. The phases are real slow as well....but i feel some kind of moral upholder waiting like all the motorists....while fcukwits just breeze on past...or mount the path and wiggle through peds, etc etc etc.
Those manhole covers look awfullly slippery. I'm getting a complex about them Good few miles tonight, good patient motorists, but i've noticed one set of traffic lights that's ALWAYS against me
. The phases are real slow as well....but i feel some kind of moral upholder waiting like all the motorists....while fcukwits just breeze on past...or mount the path and wiggle through peds, etc etc etc.
longers
Legendary Member
Freezing fog this morning on the commute .
Got up above it just as the sun was lightening the sky and it was gorgeous looking down the frosty icy valley.
I had plenty of ice on me when I arrived, my eyelashes didn't freeze but they were heavy with collected moisture from the fog.
Just cold fog coming home and couldn't get above it but came the long way and the frost in the hedgerows was stunning, thick on the plants and the spiders webs were as good as I've ever seen if not better.
.Got up above it just as the sun was lightening the sky and it was gorgeous looking down the frosty icy valley.
I had plenty of ice on me when I arrived, my eyelashes didn't freeze but they were heavy with collected moisture from the fog
. Just cold fog coming home and couldn't get above it but came the long way and the frost in the hedgerows was stunning, thick on the plants and the spiders webs were as good as I've ever seen if not better.
Sittingduck
Legendary Member
- Location
- Somewhere flat
Long, cold, some nasty hills (nasty for me anyway), it was great!
Shame I ended up having to get the train home due to a broken spoke between Hampton and Kingston Luckily the discovery was suspected but only confirmed as I was directly opposite the train station in Kingston. Still... a great day all round - even stopping for drinks / cake in Staines!
Shame I ended up having to get the train home due to a broken spoke between Hampton and Kingston
Luckily the discovery was suspected but only confirmed as I was directly opposite the train station in Kingston. Still... a great day all round - even stopping for drinks / cake in Staines! 
Will1985
Über Member
- Location
- South Norfolk
Another track session. It was so cold that I had to stop just before the end because my lungs were hurting. Got back and could barely stand or click the computer mouse!
Weather like this should be banned.
Weather like this should be banned.
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