This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Loads of 'on here' types between Nunhead and Peckham Rye most mornings.

This morning there was a bloke looking very srs bsns in Rapha, beard, Speedplays and two (pink) Rapha water bottles.

Some fucking tosscannon 'driving' a car suddenly appeared within a centimetre of my right hand side, last night, on my way home from work. The passenger had their window down and started to have a go at me for being in ‘their lane' (Borough High Street - the one lane bit, travelling southbound). The driver said nothing, while I told them my perception of what had happened and what should have actually happened. Unfortunately they were battenburg-brained fucknooses and are highly likely to run someone over who is in 'their lane' in the future. Ter-wats.

This morning's ride in was quite tasty. Cheers.

Surrey Canal Path indeed, is there a canal?

Was, it got filled in during the 1970s.

Nice

Moped drivers are a menace, ruined commute.

EDit: To long and rubbish story, so shortened.

You near Parrs Wood or suttin? Should've nipped to Didsbury.

Also, plane to Manchester? Train takes 2 hours and you're not stuck out by the airport.

This. Very few places in the UK that make sense to fly to if you're in London already.

Really fun bit of my ride across burgess park today, guy on rollerblades having some fun too which I felt I had to put to music when I got in, hopefully he somehow sees it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GFffpnjWAE

10/10 would make improv music video from youtube stock tunes libary again

Shoulder checking to see if the car behind me was going to try and overtake through a narrow crossing. Drifted left and binned it over a bollard, claret was spilled and I had to start laughing to hide my embarrassment to the concerned driver. 2/10

what would have made it a 1/10?

are you ok? is the bike ok?

It would have been 1/10 if the bike or my bibs had been damaged, luckily got away with just a puncture and cut knee, nothing serious though!

My humility is at an all time high, however I would swap it for a go on those rollerblades!

awesome!

(edited out the tldr for another post...)

I was in Burgess Park yesterday, and slowed right down in that little underpass behind a couple who were walking same direction, they had a couple of little kids on scooters nearby. Someone cycling the other way, as she passed said "It's so dangerous!" as some kind of admonition that they should let their children play in the path. I mean, clearly they weren't planning on spending all their time there, they were just passing through, and the "danger" was the cyclist! Y'know, you could just make yourself less "dangerous", slow down a bit more, call out to the kids. And then one of the parents retorted too. I just see it as totally unecessary bad feeling, and it reminds me so much of when you're on the roads and someone in a large vehicle tells you "it's so dangerous!"...

i blame the fucking bus driver for waving the van driver through.

Not the culture that encourage people to ride on the inside at all time?

That's not 'culture' you melt. That's stupidity.

Had a job ALL DAY today. Feel very lucky. Rode home and London commuting seemed charming and awesome. 9/10 too humid really but I'm still lovin it like Maccy D advert.

Not the culture that encourage people to ride on the inside at all time?

Getting a bit boring now

why is that relevant?
do you just assume this person rides on the inside all the time? how do you know it wasn't actually a fine idea to ride on the inside (judged for that situation, at an appropriate speed, and able to stop for things like cars turning across path).
they got rear-ended hard by another cyclist, and you're blaming "cycling on the inside culture"?
well, I guess without it, the dopey cyclist behind might not have been there. seems tenuous.

Not really, cyclist behind him should've leave enough room for emergency stop in the first place, it just didn't helped that for the last couple decades it's always about riding on the very edge of the kerbs out of fear mongering, and then got blame for getting hit.

i blame the fucking bus driver for waving the van driver through.

Technically this is correct. I blame them too. Drivers should not direct traffic, unless they are Police (or Highways Authority Officers one might guess). However I fucking love you Rus and pretty much all your bile on here but that's utter fucking crap. Try driving a four-wheeled motor vehicle of any size in this town for more than five minutes, and count how many times you have to direct traffic. You'll have to take your shoes off, it's technically illegal to be barefoot whilst driving so pull over before you attempt counting past ten.

So I blame the rider more. No-one's going to stop you fucking up out there except you. Hope you or your bike aren't too damaged.

fuk u skuyl! fite me irl u fagt!

i know what you're getting at. perhaps riding a bike has made me a more considerate driver to the point where if ever i feel the need to wave someone through whilst behind the wheel, i'll check that bus lane before doing so and communicate the presence of vulnerable road users to the other driver. it's not hard, and i don't get why other drivers don't do the same.

I'm happy to slow to a stop if needed, I did a few days ago going across tooting bec on the shared path, was a todler barely able to stand and walk out of his pram having a stagger about but that's about as safe a place as he could.

Most people if you do slow right down then feel embaressed that they are an obstruction so say sorry then I just reply to reasure them it's no trouble at all and ride off. Some even if you slow down will still spout something about dangers but I just ignore those ones.

Can't understand why you would ride around advertising that you are a danger to others, just correct your riding style.

it's not hard, and i don't get why other drivers don't do the same.

Because they're in a metal cocoon. You and I also ride bikes, so we remember that what's through the windscreen isn't just some particularly tedious simulation.

brixton road > kennington is rife with this sort of cuntery. it's often hard to tell if the car ahead is waiting to let a right-turner sail through or if they've forgotten to look up from their phone once the traffic ahead of them has moved on.