This morning's commute and other commuting stories

That would be all sorts of problematic

I really should ignore commuters who like to race, right?

There's a chap on my commute who rides a cheap Boardman with no foot retention. He came past me on my fixed at full speed. I briefly gave chase but soon realised he was very quick and sustained it. He did it again the other day and I was on my road bike so I kisked it down two notches and latched onto his wheel. Neither time he passed me did he say anything.

Anyway I drafted him for a little while until we hit a red light at ped crossing, he was on the left, I went right, he put his foot down, I didn't so went ahead and started to accelerate thinking he'd drop in behind me...at which point he came zooming past me giving it full beans. Again said nothing. At that point I saw red a little and again caught him up and sat in his wheel. a mile or so on we crested a little rise at which point I kicked the gear down again and shot past him, saying as I did 'You're not the only one who can ride fast' and dropped him.

#childlikemind

I like to race, but only against people I can actually beat.

That's how it works right?

This calls for a Lucas thread dredge
http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/185051/

ha! Lucas the font of all knowledge
the moment he cussed that Dropout meme was his exit from LFGSS-
wonder where he got to? oh hai Lucas!!

commuting? =filtering, I dont book work which forces me on the roads at happy hour, if I can help it.

I sometimes head out for solo rides at a time of day around #peaknodder dressed invariably as the #fullkitwanker I am. It'll happen tomorrow.

I pretty much always get raced - fair enough.

There's no way I'm breaking from my warm up to get involved. I've got 3 hours in which to get the blood pumping.

It is amusing to witness the risky overtaking, out of the saddle thrashing only for them to slow to a sweaty standstill on a humpback bridge.

It's bums on bikes though and better for everyone than getting fat in a car so all good. Everyone highfive everyone. Long live #cat5

I had this with a pair of Levi's commuters on in NY, except my Om Noms absolutely obliterated the entire right leg, all the way up to the knee. Thankfully they were 'Kangaroo Brown' in the first place.

Today was crazy riding in to work felt like back to back HGVs all the way and all of them more unusual than normal. First was moving metal fences like you have at fireworks, stacked crazy high to make the flatbed truck taller than a bus, had the weird feeling it was 1 and a bit loads and should have been 2 trucks. Little after that was an extra long flatbed with a yellow light on the back moving some railway tracks, no idea why they aren't delivered by train or cut shorter(the length comes from the length of normal train cars as it's how the originally shifted them). Then lastly not long before work was a trash compactor bin man with yellow lights flashing all over the back of it, watched it indicate left and I have to be honest the indicator was lost entirely in the yellow disco of warning lights.

the fact that you and i subsidise the road freight industry to the tune of about 5bn notes a year in road building and maintenance costs means it makes far more economic sense to transport shit on said roads than by rail.

FUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU roadie douchebag who emergancy braked got off his bike and asked me if I wanted to 'start something' because i called him a cunt, after he told me to 'fucking watch it' after I swerved a little left from primary to avoid a pot hole as he was undertaking me at a pinch point through a junction

I am happy. I rode in slowly with my wife this morning on a quiet route that I had planned for her as she is keen to begin commuting on her bike now that she is working in town.

@Rogan - Think that's warranted mate - you called the guy a c**t.

Imagine if the commute could be done on a motorway like this:

http://www.thebikecollective.com/bike-drafting-124-kmh/

But he was a cunt.

How would he even pronounce those asterisks?

But he was a cunt.

This.

Genuinely nice older man on some hybrid BSO today.

I pulled up behind him at a red light and on noticing me he made 2 steps back and waved me forward as the light switched to green, waited 'till I was gone and continued in his own slower pace.
Made me smile.

Old people; know your limitations.

Isn't that right TS?

I said, ISN'T THAT RIGHT TS?

then he waited for you at the next lights and said "try keep up, son" ?

No, because I am such an amazing rider, I managed to drop a person approximately 40 years older than me.

A beautiful moment this morning on Brixton Road.

I was part of a large group of cyclists waiting patiently behind a LWB Transit-Tipper, held on red at the junction with Loughborough Road.

As we wait a young chap in a white Corsa with a black bonnet and roof approaches from Thornton Road on the left – he can’t exit the road as the Transit is in the way.

The lights turn green and the Transit moves off, as do the cyclists – but the chap in the Corsa decides he’s going to force his way out, as hey- they’re just cyclists.

So, staring at the large group of people that he is forcing to brake/evade he pulls out- and drives straight into the side of the Transit, which as he’s not looking where he’s going he hasn’t noticed is still in front of him, having moved off more slowly than he assumed.

This caused most of the cyclists to start laughing at him, a ray of ironic sunshine having broken through an otherwise overcast morning commute in London's famous London.

Waiting at the lights at the end of my road this morning, and the woman in the car in front of me suddenly decides to reverse and nearly wipes me out. When I ask her what the fuck did she think she was doing and that she'd nearly hit me, she said she hadn't done it on purpose. Well, that's alright then, you dozy muppet...

Please tell me someone had a GoPro on.

First commute in a while, had taken time out as the commute was winding me up. Good to see nothing really changes. Range Rover narrowly miss me while over taking a few 100 meters up the road he swings over into the cycle lane and stops to pick up his mate, then as we go out to go around him he swings out to the right. Almost as good as the Hi-vis MTB warrior who pulled out with out checking over his shoulder narrowly missing the motorbike and the black cab. Then using all his might to try and catch up with the motorbike.

Felt like a crazy morning on my trip just south of the river between Putney and Battersea Park today. Why is it that when the traffic is slightly worse, everyone in a car, van, lorry or on a motorbike seems so much more desperate to have an accident? Every street I rode down seemed to have at least one wince worthy moment. Unnecessarily Stressful.

Yeah was busy all through Lombard Road and Vicarage Crescent plus that one that goes up to Battersea Park. Or do you mean York Road and whatever cycle highway that is?