This morning's commute and other commuting stories

late in this morning and nearly cut a jack russell in half outside brockwell park as it belted across the road. buy a fucking leash you posh cunt!

First Boris/Ken/Jenny bike commute. They're heavier than I remembered but it got me here. Managed to hit the dizzying heights of 20mph too.

Roll on 2015 when I'll be up to 10k+ runs and can ditch this single BB commute for a 12k run.

buy a fucking leash you posh cunt!

How did you know it was posh? Was it wearing a monocle and top hat?

Brockwell and posh, that's a first

Soon.

i'd just like to point out that this was not a well known brockwell park frequenting, jack russell owning forumenger who is about as posh as a steak and kidney pie floating in a sea of best-bitter.

I snapped at a vespa rider this morning finally after seeing him sit in ASL deliberately twice and taking the blue fucking painted CS8 in narrow parts while other motorcyclists were avoiding it. He had no words to munch on; I eventually felt bad. Should've kept calm.

Otherwise top commute ..

8/10

Dougie would've chewed your ankles off... #fact

...and sent me the bill for his dental work.

aaaah dougie. he's the best.

Not always easy to bite your tongue.

called a pick up truck driver a "fucking dopey cunt" on the way home last night.

Travelling east on Hackney road, I spotted him ahead of me, stationary in the middle of the road, as I'm in the bus lane coming up behind him. He waits until I'm about 5m behind him to swerve left into the bus lane (without indicating obvs) before peeling off back to his own lane. Had I not been anticipating something weird I'd have smashed into the back of him. Caught up with him at a red light on Mare street, he just looks dead ahead pretending I'm not there when I asked him what he's up to. Terrifying.

Tri bars "super" speed type undercutting me just a bit too close by Wandsworth Prison - yes you got called a fucking moron. Deal with it instead of assuming you don't need to slow down, not ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XTSdlCvUOE

Made a bus driver apologise to me! I was in the left hand lane in a 2 lane, one-way system, the bus driver was turning right into the two lanes. Didn't wait for me to go past, instead blasted out of the junction and crossed both lanes with the intended result of pushing me onto the pavement as best I could work out. I had to slam on the brakes to avoid a side swipe.

Of course the bus immediately turned right, very slowly, onto a pedestrianised area, so I was able to get ahead of it and stop in front of it, and demanded at explanation why on earth the driver pulled that particular manoeuvre. I must have looked a little wired, the adrenaline was coursing through me, and she immediately apologised and said she didn't see me (yawn). I pointed out I had two front lights (one full beam, one flashing) and how dangerous her driving was and rode off hands clamped to the bars and legs spinning full of nervous energy.

First time I have had an apology from a bus. Usually it's a string of expletives and then a punishment pass they next time they overtake me.

I overtook him shortly after, as he was obviously winded after overtaking me.

I chuckled at this nugget from the prev' page. Is a lungpunch the new kidneypunch?

A fair bit more traffic today for the first mile or so and then I got to the front of it to find a car with a flat tyre going about 15mph, decided not to pass as I just got a bad feeling about being infront of them, they then continued to drive for 3 or so more miles.

On Whitechapel there is a garage where every taxi driver in London lies waiting to pull out into the main road at 90degrees. I was cycling past said junction and a taxi did indeed pull out in front of me. luckily i'm in primary in the left lane, I move (safely) around the taxi and give him a cheery thumbs up to congratulate him on his driving.

SOME DICKCHEESE, wearing black shorts and a black jumper with yellow sleeves then undertakes me and points at the gutter. I ask him at the lights what it meant and he said that he was forced to undertake me and i should spend less time making gestures at taxis and more time tucking into the kerb so speed demons like him can overtake me.

I was/am so speechlessly angry. getting called out for dick moves one thing. getting called out for doing the right thing, by another cyclist doing the wrong thing is another matter entirely.

Next time, lungpunch him...

Did you really strava/garmin a hire bike commute??

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The 133 bus and walk from monument

There was a bag full of polystyrene in the road on the junction of old st and kingsland road so I did a whip skid and hit it with my back wheel, and it landed perfectly on the pavement. cool hipster story bro

Seriously awesome.

8/10

Carrier bag blew across the road and right into my campag record rear d. Fucked.

And campag is fuucking expensive. Only commuting on it as I don't like campag so don't care. Fuck am I paying £200 to replace it all!