This morning's commute and other commuting stories

yes, but would still need a pump that will not attach to the ti frame
:-(

first world problems

Might do. I'll see if I can find it first - it's a while since I saw it.

It's a rather arrogant feeling of superiority that allows me to keep calm.

I know how you feel. As of September I went from 50 miles a week (over 4 days) to 14 miles a week (just one day). Some weeks I now run further than I cycle and one week I swam further than I cycled.

Tri thread >>>>>>>

Dropped my hat somewhere between ldn bridge and old street 😭
3/10

Not as cold as last week 10/10

Styled out a double tyre slide on some greasy, gravelly, debris mid corner. In front of people. Looked like a total boss. 9/10.

I'm happy that I've gone from a 48 to a 46t chainring. It made sense.

Said hi to the Loughborough Rd. lollipop man again when he waved. He's my friend. Thinking of asking him to come to my house and play Warhammer. Too soon?

Bloody stupid me forgot the bloody mudguards today.
Now sat in office with pants that look like armageddon and a meeting in 4 hours.
I think I'll just stay seated until my arse is dry again.
0/10

surely you're commuting (from) outside of Lundun-town, or via mud-tracks or something.. as hardly saw any damp/wet in central today..

.. although did find the road surface a little slippery this morning (around 8ish), as turning into a familiar quiet residential street (possibly a little too quickly), slid off my commuter for the first time.. which might have been more to do with riding big-rig down-hill grippy tyres over the weekend, and having pretty-much no tread on my rear, but......

.. if the car pulling out into my path would have had its lights on (even maybe just the side lights!), it might have been easier and quicker to spot!!

{rant continues/starts}

from either driving or riding around the British roads these days, often get the feeling (especially at dusk on main fast roads) that it would be a little bit safer if us Brits took a more Scandinavian approach to car-lights (as in: turning at least the side-lights on when in motion!);

He's commuting from even further outside London than I am.

Had an artic overtake me at speed today into a roundabout (I'm in centre lane going second exit) and then turn left, there was nearly poo. Reported but it won't come to anything. 2/10

Riding a 25 mile loop after work to drop two car alternators (35kg, and threatened to wreck my panniers so mega slow careful) off at the recon place, via river paths, sparsely packed woodland with the sun twinkling through, then a hot chocolate and a haggis scone to warm up before getting home 9/10

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New set of brake pads in before I left work, how did I manage to ride in it was like an on/off switch had been flicked.

So nice this morning. Winter tights replaced by leg warmers, summer shoes back on. Lovely.

A woman beeped me for being in primary. I pulled up next to her at the lights so she could shout at me. I just nodded blankly and smiled.

Many zen, such serene, would float again.

The upper hand was gained me finks. Strong work

I gave up getting in fights on the road because it was stressing me out.

Sometimes I really have to bite my tongue though.

I'm sure I'll explode one day and chin a kid on a scooter.

Excellent work. It'd take an afternoon to explain why she was wrong, you're not going to get anywhere trapping off in traffic.

At a set of red traffic lights, a Tipper truck goes into the oncoming lane to overtake all the cyclists and a van waiting so he can cut the corner turning left.

The light goes green and everyone starts to move forward, this tipper truck starts his left turn. Insane, giving that these vehicles have killed 3 in as many weeks. Luckily everyone had spotted his intentions long before, or a few of us would have been pulped.

Had the old trackstand2wheelspinofdeath™ when pulling away last night, unfortunately I didn't catch it and down I went. Laughed it off but when I got home, I'd broken a buckle on my SIDIs. I did pop into Hy-Tek Electronics (for the 1st time) though, which brings it back up to 4/10

Helped a lorry reverse out of a face off with a bus on Cali road this morning #shouldhavebeenabanksman 8/10

Sidi spares Done it myself, easy fix

Thanks, £20 though!

Yeah I know! My breakage wasn't even as stylish as yours. In some bizzarre form of elastic band leggedness my girlfriend managed to kick mine off!

Starting to get a little lighter in the morning, which is bring out more cyclist which means me shocking riding. Lost count of the 'not looking over shoulder', filtering down left turn bus/truck and the new one cycling along the pavement until you are a head of the traffic then re-joining the road in front of the other cyclist. 7/10