This morning's commute and other commuting stories

This thread is my favourite, because it normally ends in me sitting back with a smug look on my face thinking that my very short commute wasn't as bad as I thought it was.

I'm one step away from the smug look that all the work from home LFGSSers have.

1st commute back after me holiday, lovely if a little chilly. Still quite a few people without lights. Loved the comment by one fella to a cyclist without lights, "excuse me, your lights aren't working' total bewilderment on the face of the cyclist.

When you see a narrow gap between two big coaches, you think "Any cyclist trying to get through there risks becoming the greasy filling in a coach sandwich". Don't expect the same problem when the gap between them is a whole fucking empty lane on a wide, 3-lane stretch. Lolz at them arguing over who owned the middle lane, otoh.

I got the Krypto Evo integrated 1055.
It looks like you can use it as nunchucks without whacking yourself in the neck.
You can't.

Took some forks to East Central Cycles to swap out under warranty; stuck them in side of my backpack and felt like Boba Fett.

Cycling past the Bellingham homebase and I get buzzed by two low-flying delta-v formations of geese who had just flapped up from the pond.
I matched their speed for about 10 seconds and feel baller, flying down the road flanked by my geese escorts.

Then I got rained on .. 8/10

euph!

First commute in rain.
My cheap 12€ ALDI rain jacket and rain pants held up well enough.
SKS Raceblades did their job, although the rear one rubs the tire due to a major fitting fail.
I'll need something to cover my feet, once the weather gets colder, and maybe a second layer under the jacket (went with a longsleeve only).
Small adjustments all in all. Come at me weather.

6/10, would do again without rubbing mudguard to annoy me.

First commute with new seatpost pannier bar thing, the bags I used are too flappy and touched the wheel which I noticed a couple of times so I'm guessing loads.

Driving instructor doing 34mph past a school with a happy face sad face style speed sign, didn't get a reg or pay much attention to the driving school name wood-something. Feel more sorry for the learner passenger as she will learn his shit, great chance to teach driving behind a cyclist on a road full of unusual signs(test place is near so the road is used in tests I think).

Bus drivers in Croydon deciding to ignore solid lines and pass on the other side of the road almost causing a head on with another bus. It's part of the diversion I'm following to get to work and it seems 50:50 if a bus is behind you they will try it, worry is more about them going "oh shit" and pulling in on me to avoid a head on, primary even almost on the middle line seems to have no difference since it's last stop territory with an empty bus and me between them and a fag brake. Going to see if I can divert more around to miss Katherine street.

3/10

Literary excellence 8/10

Would have been 10/10 but it took me 5 minutes to decipher the string of letters in Caps. Christ, I'm getting old.

That's his deliberate impressionist retelling.
The ALLCAPS medium is best suited to convey both the heated rage of the moment and the obfuscation of clarity.

It's art, innit.

@cafewanda @NurseHolliday @Chung Glad you guys enjoyed it, because the traffic behind us certainly didn't. They were going on a never before witnessed level of spastication.

The van driver directly behind us was so angry he actually ate his own steering wheel. #trufax

...stuck them in side of my backpack and felt like Boba Fett.

The main reason I (rarely) play bike golf...

Brixton tube is a clusterfuck atm, however, I did manage to get a seat on the Northern line... Tried to miss rush hour on the way home... Failed...

Overall, 5/10...

I travel from Sydenham Hill. Not Sydenham.

Tooling south on Park Lane using a nearly empty bus lane encountered a mixed pair on Boris bikes hugging wrong side of white line dicing with deadly traffic in the mad van & general anarchic mayhem lanes.

Suggested they might be safer in the bike nice fluffy lane and they cut over sharpish.

Didn't look back to see whether they successfully negotiated Hyde Park Corner.

@Antidotes
http://youtu.be/jTifRi3qDkU

Came here to post the excitement for me of riding braklezz, because my front brakebroke... 9/10

That thing where you get sweaty and damp on the way into work, put your gear over a radiator and a chair in the communal office, work elsewhere in the building all day and return to discover the office smells like Kevin & Perry's bedroom... That. Sorry everyone else. Truly sorry.

chat with a fella at the lights at Blackfriars Bridge - Colnago with 'Lightweight' wheels is a hell of a winter beater…

Thursday morning = Boris Bike commute from now on

Crisp morning, light traffic, only once almost mown down by a small car with the driver on his mobile. Would recommend 9/10

Slow puncture on the way in, no worries I thought I'll just pump it up until I get to the office with the magical forgotten pump that wasn't in my bag.

My old mate, the horse-punching Fred Agombar:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/city_tour_guide_is_wanted_by_police_1_3853417

Be CAREFUL out there.

meh..

6.5/10

Underestimated the drizzle that was coming down.
Came to work with half wet pants. (front wet, rear dry)
meh.

5/10

Had to take a 3 mile slightly uphill detour in the opposite direction to pick up some bits from the local distributor for a job then 5 miles back at lightening quick downhill all the way super speed, was fun. All in base layer and T-shirt as it's still too hot for the HH base layer I got in that sale last year and anything else.