This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Horses for courses. I'm out the house by 7.20am, so tits generally a roll from bed and onto the bike. Five extra minutes in bed doesn't help, although five extra minutes cuddling the dog is always good

tits generally a roll from bed

Boast post.

cuddling the dog

Never heard it called that before

Train this morning.

Fuck me it's depressing way to travel.

Shared a seat (because he was occupying 1.5 seats) with a portly lad on the first train who was reading the same page on his kindle for about 20minutes. There was about 20 words on the page.

Gah.

2/10

...a strong showing from ^^ and ^^^ there.

Yes, haz some phantom rep both of you

Actually enjoyed trundling home in the rain last night. Smug bastard in fancy new jacket.. which will have paid for itself by end of winter. Hoping snow stays away from London!

I had 2 fast rides home these last two days thanks to that tailwind. Shame my phone is busted, else I may have smashed a few Strava segments

So annoying when they don't change pages when we're done reading them.

Discovered that chain skipping wasn't through slackness but through teeth being removed.

My 12t cog is now an incredibly rare 8t cog :-(

Only fixed for 2/3rds of the commute :-/

rode deep into north. sat on a bench in waterlow park for a break. a person sitting next to me struck a conversation with me about bikes and later he said:

"Do you know I once had a friend who was always so confident in what he said that everyone else always thought it must be true. Once we were sat infront of a cafe in mayfair having tea and something else when he spread his shoulders, straighten his back looked across the street and confidently exclaimed: That is Bernard Hinault!. Of course, it was not Bernard Hinault. It was our neighbour Steve, who lived across the street, he was on his weekend ride passing through that borough. But I somehow believed him that it was Bernard Hinault because he said it so confidently."

more stories like this one in this thread plz

That can't be true.

Bernard Hinault lives down my street.

Bernard Hinault works in my local chippy.

Don't ever ask him for a battered sausage!

Lack of cycling has left me bloody knackered todsy. Really looking forward to getting back on the bike the morra.

My commut0r has been at the powdercoaters for about 4 weeks now (don't ask).

I'm too precious to lock my "good" bike up and too lazy to fix the puncture on my beater so I've been enjoying the fact that I now have a contactless card and getting the bus.

Most inane LFGSS post ever?

Most inane LFGSS post ever?

Nowhere near.

Ice ice ice!
Commuter bike works alright on it, it's just muppets sliding cars around because they don't realise ice means you can't do 90 degree junctions at 30 mph, surprisingly!

10/10. Warm. Windless. Traffic-free. Silent. Pitch black (apart from my lights).
Best commute in the world, somedays.

10 mile pig fest.

Mmmm. Bacon.

Lots of driver silliness.
Got shouted at to "SLOW DOWN" by a driver as they overtook me in Balham this morning, which left me a little confused.
Fast though - 8/10

Funny I expected the traffic would start to thin out as we get close to the holidays but the roads were rammed this morning.

Yes, I get this from pedestrians all the time, when they are trying to cross the road in busy traffic, usually yards from a pedestrian crossing. I stop at lights, but should I be stopping for them when they try and scuttle across the road a la Frogger?