This morning's commute and other commuting stories

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Legs felt shagged this morning after the Club run yesterday, I think its going to be a long raod back to fitness over the winter.

Pleasant enough commute though, nice temperature, smiley cyclists going the other way on the cycle routes and sensible interactions on the road by all.

7/10 - needed more sun imo

Got out of the house late today, went down to the cellar to fetch my bike. Took the beater. While unlocking I noticed a rattling noise, coming from the chain, so I go and retension the chain.

Rattling still there.

I check the bike, and find the chainwheel screws to be loose. All of them. So back inside, get my tools, tighten up the chainwheels, run back up, put the tools back, run back down, get the bike from the cellar, jump on the bike and immediately notice, that I had forgotten the drunk ride home from the pub on saturday evening where my seatclamp slipped.

Noticing that I was lacking the tools to tighten the old and shitty seatclamp, I carry the bike back down, unlock the other bike, see that the mudguards are still on, unclip the mudguards, carry them back to the flat, get on the fixed and ride off to work, blissfully, only 20 minutes late.

Mondays/10.

The recyclable idea is nice, but nothing Adidas Terrex or Gore don't do yet otherwise.

Fun thread much lfgss love as usual :p

First proper rain today. 45 miles in the dry yesterday so said to myself 'be careful, don't lean on turns' etc. Errands to run, so trip into town.

Pissing it down all the way in. Bus-only roundabout, it's a 45degree turn. Danger spot, take turn extra careful.

Bike's halfway down road, my hip and elbow hurt and hand is bleeding.

Scuff to FRC jacket, tiny hole in rain jacket over the top, bloody elbow under. Huge bruise and sore ride rest of way, and back home. Mostly dry under clothing.

8/10 clothing choice
5/10 oil on road
1/10 pain

3/10 overall satisfaction

I 'm coming to the conclusion that Clapham drivers are the worst. I'm working here for a bit so pop out during the day for coffee and lunch, and the number of cunts who tell me to stop driving in the middle of the road/use the CS7 for undertaking/try to bully their way through in their 4x4s etc feels way worse than other parts of town. I just got beeped and shoved off the road by a fucking ambulance 10 yards before trying to turn right at a junction ffs ("Get out the middle of the road!").
I think it must be because

1. People have just come off the fast bit of the A3
   
2. It's on the cusp of urban/suburban
   
3. People who choose to live in Clapham are hideous people*
   
   

*disclaimer: I do know some lovely idiots who choose to live here

EDIT - Phone went nuts -

We Lived there for 4years, just off the High Street. A big part in our decision to leave was the seemingly rapid change in the people who moved into the area around us when while we where there, I'm sorry to say.

We never used Cs7 or the main roads there due to the 'unforgiving' nature of some of the driving. There are great old CC routes out the back around of Larkhall that get you into town fairly quickly

Its number 3, its unquestionably number 3.

For those who live in Clapham you should add 4.

bantz had to drive to cheeky nandos...

Nailed it.

#rep

:(

Oil VS 2 wheels, the fight you just can't win :/

Oh my commute's just fine - Nunhead via Herne Hill - but it's the popping up to the coffee shop by Clapham Common tube (150 yards up the High St) or to the deli on North St (half a mile through the old town) that I seem to encounter the knobs.

but it's the popping up to the coffee shop by Clapham Common tube (150 yards up the High St)

By the nandos?

Oh my commute's just fine - Nunhead via Herne Hill - but it's the popping up to the coffee shop by Clapham Common tube (150 yards up the High St) or to the deli on North St (half a mile through the old town) that I seem to encounter the knobs.

Consider taking a packed lunch with you to work?

Nah, the deli's good enough and cheap enough to make the arseholes bearable.

Slow and damp

ooh nurse

Gridlocked down the road .

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/live-updates-murder-probe-after-10194591

Doesn't happen everyday thank god. Last week 200 yards further on it was a drive by shooting race where know-one has been caught !

Much beeping. Many anger.

8/10 going past it all.

Double puncture for the win - not first the back then about 1 mile later the front. Gave them a quick pump to get me to the office. Can't see any evidence of damage and nothing sticking out.

A royal pain in the arse 2/10

My commute was brightened up enormously by watching an unmarked police car with full blues and twos try and navigate the log jam that is E&C. He ended up going back down the Walworth Road, having started from there at the junction with Heygate St.

Much lols.

Poor organisational skills this morning so trucking into to work on the polo bike with mallet in hand. One of the new flock of students to the city wanders into the road staring at his phone. Wave the mallet at him and shout "OI!" and give a look of northern craziness. The lad'll definitely be wide awake for his first lecture now.

Started 3/10 and finished 9/10 as I remembered the new code for the gates and didn't have to the walk of shame through the office.

Saw a green woodpecker, 3 herons, and a kingfisher on this morning's commute.

Would twitch again.

Gave up on the tyre fitting/wrestling match on Saturday night, and carried the bike into my LBS to wave the white flag. Chapeau to the gent in the shop who made it look easy.

Off sick yesterday, but back to business as usual this morning. A particular highlight was the line of lemmings joining E&C, completely ignoring the van coming from the right who definitely didn't intend to let them on to the roundabout, but was forced to do so by sheer weight of numbers.

Oooh nice, I get herons, seagulls, magpies, and bottles of Buckfast :P

Dry today, much not feeling like work, but cycle was fine.