This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Lovely ride in, little chuckle to myself as the masses of cyclist burnt at break neck speed, away from the lights at Borough Tube St mashing pedals and trying to find gears, only to be stopped well some stopped at the next set of lights about 200m away.

Two things always make me laugh the rush off the line or the all out speed to the next set of lights.

Sorry about that, I heard they were giving out free pork pies at the station...

Someone threw themselves infront of a train at Hampton wick... First time I've ridden in to work in ages 5 mins late, boss doesn't mind because her train was delayed.

9/10

Request from a friend. If you have any ideas, please PM me:

"Hello. I got knocked off my bicycle on Millbank this morning (Monday 26th January) (heading towards parliament square at 845am?), and got concussed. I have the drivers detail (who told me he did not accept any liability) but I foolishly didnt get any witnesses, as I was in shock. There was a man with a small dog in a red jacket offering to be one, and a blond lady with a blue cycle jacket. Do you know these people? Or did you see it? Could you forward this, or could you reshare?"

a small dog in a red jacket offering to be one

Dog sounds amaze.

Well he did say he was concussed.

What else did the dog say?

Hmm that was quite difficult. Good headwind all the way across today, gusting 50 apparently.
Ride home should be quick though!

Lots of gravel spilt on the road on Battersea Rise heading up to the Bolingbroke Grove Junction westbound.

Just a couple of close over takes this morning. Pretty textbook otherwise.

Riding home with girlfriend last night, about 10.30, travelling towards Victoria Park from hackney road. When I go straight through the junction at cambridge heath station, a minibus thing is in the lane to my right waiting to turn right, and bloke in the passenger side tries to shake me up by shouting at me as I pass them in the central lane. He then shouts at me to pull over, then makes another weird shouty noise. I call him a wanker as I look back at him, giving the accompanying hand gesture. He screams cunt at me. Girlfriend is coming up behind the minibus as he does this and says "you're in a combi van, who's the cunt?"

Needless to say, I had the last laugh.

Mildly entertaining ride, mainly due to some incredible stupid riding. Shouted at by some fella 'on your left' as he zoomed up a tiny gap only to be faced with a stopped car. A lady who was inches from being hit by a car at a junction after decide to roll through the red light when there was a bus in the bus lane so had no chance to see what was coming. Another woman again almost hit by a car, traffic was backed up so cars had been letting the oncoming cars across turn so they could right. At one point, a van had stopped to let a car across no way you could see but a bit of road sense maybe to slow down. Nope, she went full pelt good job the driver was on the ball.

Last one was funny, a load of us stopped a red light, fella starts walking across gets to the middle as the lights turn green. Loads of shouting from the cyclists guy then starts offering people out, not sure if anyone took him up.

Look forward to doing it again 8/10

Train wanker today (hated every moment of it) 1/10

Offering people out?
Theatre or dinner?

After discovering a deflating crack in the seatstay of my (fairly) recently purchased winter bike, I'm back riding the commute fixed and wondering why I ever abandoned it for a geared bike (beyond the odd bone-shaker moment). Still, for the benefit of comfort I find myself needing to swap out the track drops for my preferred bullhorn, the RB-002, anyone got one spare on the cheap?

Lady smashed her car into the bollard at the width restriction on Mildmay Rd, causing catastrophic failure to the wheel and suspension. Unfortunately this meant it was stuck in the width restriction. Every fucker was going mental. Chill the fuck out, go a different way, but going apeshit and being aggressive isn't going to move a fucked car.

Stayed with her while she rang for recovery, and then told her to leave a note and go to a cafe or she was going to catch untold amounts of grief from every fucking loony on the road.

Other than that, nice commute. 7.5/10 for excitement

Many chivalry. Such gentleman.

That's one minute from my flat, so many people go mental in that width restriction thing! Makes me laugh.

Well done for being a nice person @NurseHolliday I bet she appreciated it!

We live so close #creepy

Hey there confused nodder standing outside Toys R Us on OKR, the gloves you are looking for desperately in the drizzle are in the bus lane opposite Tesco on Lewisham Way after they fell out of your pocket and your non-stop dickish RLJing meant I was not able to catch up to you to tell you.

#karma

We live so close #creepy

the curious part of my brain now wants to know what road you live on.. #stalker

Haha!

Car horns: the first resort of the mentally feeble.

"Duh, I can see a blockage in the road, caused by a complex and conflicting series of actions and reactions. Better sort it out by tooting my fucking horn. After all, it does have the power to physically move large objects."

#rep

Somerford Grove Estate, just past Beyond Retro.

I was stopped in the ASL box at an intersection, the lights turn green so I take off, accelerating at some speed (if I must say) as I have the usual revving cars behind me. I notice a chap approaching the intersection to my left, so heading towards the red light, and right across my path. He doesn't seem to be slowing down at all. I prepare to start shouting abuse/take evasive action, and sure enough, he goes straight through the lights and turns left, directly into my path. I swerve around him and give him a huge 'WTF, dude!' (instantly regretted the dude part), but not sure he heard me with his headphones in. He also completed the entire move without lifting his eyes off his front wheel. Knob!