This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I know. Highway code, you give way to cars going down the hill.

Does that still hold true if they have crossed over into your lane?

I thought it was the other way round, that you should give way to vehicles going uphill?

5 mins of google suggests I was wrong.
THEY SHOULD HAVE WAITED TO LET ME PASS OR GO BACKWARDS UP THE HILL.

Fuck it. I called a granny a prick. My day is ok.

lol

Start the week as you mean to go on.

Finally put my mudguard back on, I shall be saved this evening...

Hope you're alright now - those things do shake you up, guy was clearly a gigantic arse.

swapped sks race blade from the summer bike onto the road bike, have noticed that the mudguard itself rather than the arms which attach to the frame changes position as I ride, sliding forward, and requiring a bit of fettling..

This morning it slides out without me noticing, so will be wet arsing it home this evening..

Wrap a bit of inner tube around the frame where you're mounting the mudguard

Months w/o a flat, and voila. Just when i really need to be home for my food delivery.

Starts pissing down, swapped tube, pump not playing ball... Helped out by a fellow cyclist who saw me wrestling with pump bit.

Good man. All the reps. And just made it for food van too. Yeeeeoooo!

Nice........very nice.........dry all the way to Spitalfields E London so pulled over for a coffee at Christ Church. Schoolboy error. Halfway thru a particularly creamy café latte the heavens opened and the final 500m to London Wall left me dripping wet. What a knob.

Proper epic ear to ear grinning, cackling like a maniac commute. 10/10

Wet enough to clear the roads a bit, not too wet for the rainy day cruiser's mudguards to stop my arse from getting wet.

Win/10

Tipped it down the whole 12 miles. Feels like you've been on a mini adventure before work when its like that. Highlight/low light was going under the railway bridge on Putney Bridge Road. It was flooded past the hubs. Thought my feet couldn't get any wetter until that. Turns out they could, and my was that water cold.

Sat down straight at my computer, and ordered Koolstop Salmons. Stock pads didn't work at all when wet - had to feather them all the way in (kept me warm though).

I assume it depends on your rims but Scoble suggested that I buy some Salmons a few years ago and their primary function was their inability to stop my bike especially in the wet. Clearly I have the minority experience though as most people say they're the nuts.

Disc brakes ftw.

Very, very wet. So much so that overshoes just mean I now have 3 layers of wringing wet things to dry rather than 2. Good fun tho.

I will report back!

Tested the mudguards I fitted at the weekend. Got soaked, may request a refund.

Salmons didn't work for me either. Currently working my way through a pair of Swisstops. Almost a year old.

In other news, this morning's rain reminded me that woolly socks are warmer than the thin poly/cotton socks I wore. Cycling in the rain is much fun, except for the mess that is E&C.

first time trying overshoes today. (planet X neoprene ones) not dry feet, which definitely isn't helped by lack of front mudguard. but warm. so worthwhile....

No bike today as out tonight - but still got soaked in the 3 seconds between umbrella going down and stepping onto the bus, so rep for anyone cycling in this morning.

I've lost the mudguard itself, shook itself loose and flung itself to it's death without my noticing, so I have a skeleton frame of a mudguard, without the flesh of the guard itself..

It was dry here, but I got a soaking yesterday. My clamp-on-seatpost mudguard had slipped, q a wet behind.

Quiet today, with Pavenger(tm) on the kerb. Come on now, if you are big enough for a fixed wheel, you are big enough to go on the road. That kerb wasn't miles wide either.