This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I was a bit of a twat on the way home due to puncture, being hangry and being caught in a downpour. Got cut up by a bunch of kids (scary mid teens really) and trapped off at them, deserved the "shut up bruv" I got in response. Emergency cheese on toast has made me see the light of day.

If a group of six peds are walking side by side on a road leaving no space is it acceptible to plough into them?

I know it's not, probably even more so as it was a road in richmond park that only leads to a small car park (near ham gate)... But it was pretty irritating as because of the little room they left I had to ride closer to their unleashed dogs than I would like (2 feet rather than 6) and one of them looked worried I was going to run thier dog over... But didn't fucking move for other road users... Bet they would have moved for a car... Cunts.

#inamoodbecauseofwork

Being a mute, and unable to say 'Excuse me' must make life awkward for you at times like this Louis. That and being momentarily held up on your way to perform a life saving operation on an orphan child. It's easy to see why it would distress you so. I suppose a bell might be useful but then, being profoundly deaf as you are, you would never know it it was actually working and that might just add to your frustration. Are they ignoring my 'two tings' or has a ball of fluff got lodged behind the clapper? With your sky high blood pressure that sort of thing could finish you off altogether. I'd recommend abandoning the bike and seeing if there are any secure mental hospitals that have a bed going spare.

'Louis' sounds loike he needs a holiday.

Yup, Oval and surrounding area is still a Clusterfuck

And The Cut has been changed to cyclists only. Which was actually quite fun

My angryometer went off the scale when I saw the sign that had been put by the bike lane approaching the Old Bailey junction by St Sepulchre, saying Cyclists dismount. Why does it not say Motorists get out and walk? I might try dismounting and walking along the road.

My commute had already been crap after I had decided to hang a right off the OKR and up St James road to avoid the traffic ha ha. Hit a ped on Tooley Street and was generally plagued by phone-glued lemmings from there on to Holborn. Should have set off earlier.

Yup, Oval and surrounding area is still a Clusterfuck

You know, I think I heard that somewhere. Definitely rings a bell.

Southwark Cut? Serious? Was only talking about how shit that is for cyclists last night.

Commute: Dead quiet.
Saw a Rapha person heading up College Road.
dat hair.

Got a puncture so pulled up at a bench in the sun on the river lea path. There was a swans nest opposite and daddy swan was chasing some Canada geese (bloody immigrants) away from his stretch of water.

After a while watching this, I eventually decided to fix the puncture.

Should pause more often.

Its become quite a fun obstacle course with a load of traffic cones whilst they dig the road up at the Southwark tube end

You want to be careful around swans, they can break a man's arm they can.

Motorbork tool... bollocks, I really can't be arsed to explain. Farringdon Road, motorcycles, rude, unnecessarily aggressive. WHY?!!!

TruFax

@chalfie speed limits don't apply to bicycles in primary legislation. Only in explicit bye laws, such as those that govern the roads within royal parks. (Ironically).

Also: http://road.cc/content/news/124738-southwark-backs-down-20mph-cycling-limit

I'll quote you on that should I get stopped.
And invoice you.

Van reversed into the major road I was riding along, as he stopped I went to go around him. Then he started to turn right into the opposite road. Saw me, carried on, only stopped when the truck driver behind me tooted his horn. Then gave the 'What?' look.
Bellend.
Had I known what he was about to do, i.e. turn right, I'd have waited. Didn't reckon on his dumbass driving style.

bt

Gladly.

Whopper fucking Wednesday.

8.20am, Bottom of Lewisham Way, a car pulled out of Goldsmiths college way ahead of me and drove straight into a plant lorry which slowly proceeded to peel off the whole front of the car like it was an orange.

8.30am OKR/Bricklayers, I was following a motorbike filtering down the centre with another motorbike close in tow, the bike ahead swerves for some reason so I slow to discover that the rider was avoiding a ped standing literally in the middle of traffic that's averaging about 20mph, 1 second later it's my turn so I aim behind the ped, who proceeds to back into me to to avoid the rider who was behind me who is aiming ahead, we both handlebar clip the ped at the same time. Many bricks shat.

8.40am Haymarket/Trafalgar Sq Cinelli Vig ahead undertakes on the inside of a bus and manages foot unclip/bail onto the pavement, one second later that would have been a crash. Many bricks shat.

Lots of fun though, same again tonight.

A lesson for life, that. The Lea's lovely, wish I still lived near it sometimes.

The biggest, jaw-loosening pothole on my commute has been fixed after about seven years!

Only in explicit bye laws

Not even in them - primary legislation doesn't allow for it

So whats the get-out for the royal parks then?

Actually contesting it when they catch you. No one has bothered