This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Crazy headwind east to west. Only upside I flew home last night.

I just pop this little 10w cutie in my rear jersey pocket.

http://www.johnlewis.com/store/sony-srsx11-portable-wireless-bluetooth-speaker/p1991270?sku=234460369&colour=Black&isd2c=false&isClicked=true&un_jtt_v_dummy=yes#page_loaded

I used an actual bicycle to get into work today. See you at SE's

Ha!...

Except today i was riding in from Hither Green so unless youre actually riding your bike (like distance), you wouldnt have ;-)

Nice!!! See you tonight then dude :-)

If its better than today, i will try make it to camberwell around 8. Ill be in a vest. Make sure youre in your best frock.

1. Dude in a truck coming from the left on a mini roundabout didn't even think about giving way to me, foot down straight on through. Oh look, he's on his phone. And there's lights up ahead... got a lovely photo of him. He passed me a bit later asking why I took a photo.
   
2. Fixie guy, looked a bit 'on here', trying to undertake a wide lorry on TB. Got about halfway up the inside before he realised he was about to be squashed. Whoops. Please be careful!
   

Dat headwind!

Oh yeah, that too. Coming over TB I was leaning at 45 degrees...

I'm getting the train tomorrow.
I'm usually in Camberwell at 7.45-7.50.

Snot covered kit.

i LOVE the train! we are so alike! Ill try wear my best mucous covered clothing

Much nodder again today but sure we all start somewhere. Two potholes and one wonky traffic light reported.

Fine half moon view of somebody who could use a trouser belt, ouch... ;)

48mins in > 41mins home.....20km - Hate / Love the wind

Awesome tailwind. Rode in with an Aussie on a Giant Defy, he was propelling it along fast, and was surprised I could pedal at 145rpm to keep up.

fuckwit driver who pulled out on me at a roundabout, first he shouted at me that I shouldn't have been there, and then changed his story to be hadnt seen me.

Fixie cretin, pulling out on to Elephanr and Castle while the lights were read. At least he was checking something, shame it was his fucking phone and not the road.

This morning at some lights a guy had blacked out 2 letters on the DT of his Orbea Avant to say "OPREA".

The thieves will never know it's an Orbea!

Except the other logos all over the bike, and the fact it obviously is.

Maybe he's just a dyslexic opera fan, you insensitive clod.

So there was this car parked in the cycle lane...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luNGjffDjCs

^ Not bad, not bad... :)

In the car today, much Pavenger by somebody who skips between road/kerb (whichever is faster)

Cycling really seems to be taking off in Belfast now, lots of old steelies being dug out (dad, can I have that bike?) and the rental bikes are very popular too.

I was in a mood this morning, woke up with a sore throat. Watched some (paint splattered shorts, hipster artist type) bloke go straight through a busy ped crossing, then through the next two red lights, then disappear and reappear on Tower Bridge, having presumably taken the illegal right turn off of Tooley Street. Last straw was when he swerved across me without looking as I was hanging behind a bus. I shouted at him for not looking, for going through reds, and for being an idiot. He then filtered off down the inside of the bus.

Peds are becoming the real danger on the roads, countless times they step out from between buses/parked cars. Cross on green for road users or walk in the road with out looking because the pavement is busy.

Am I correct in thinking that if I hit a ped while at a crossing even though it was green from me I would be in the wrong?

Peds are becoming the real danger on the roads

really?
they don't move that fast, they're soft, if you're in a situation where you can't see them (eg. stepping out between cars) slow down until the time it takes for you to see them is time enough to stop.

Peds are becoming the real danger on the roads

good grief.

^ This.

Swap Peds for cyclists in your post and you start to sound like every Daily Fail reader comment on every cycling story.

exactly.
in order of most dangerous to least dangerous, where are the smallest squishiest slowest moving things? (also the cheapest, most accessible and most commonplace activity, which I think also counts, not for danger but for overall priority)

Hedgehogs. How long before one injures a child or a pensioner?