This morning's commute and other commuting stories

She also revved her engine and stuttered the car forward which I think was some sort of intimidation move. Didn't get the reg.

"Qashqai" Audi driver with less money :p

Headsup to nice man in ratty green car letting me out in left lane...lights went green when I was filtering between cars to get to green box so would have been stuck otherwise.

Minor annoyance by "look ma no hands" on kerb nearly going into me and the cyclist up my rear reflector for a bit that must do 20 mph on a greenway. Really, why. Pedestrians are soft compared to cars, but racing is for roads. (well that's my 2 cents at least)

Took the train into work today, I got lost and took the wrong back to head back east! Let's jut say I'll be back on the bike tomorrow!

2/10

fucking Motorist's, can you imagine pull that sort of shit in the queue at tescos with your D lock. You'd be locked up in seconds. But it's just part of a normal day for some motorist's.

I think I saw that guy this morning. Heading west along Southwark Street, looking like he was headed over Blackfriars Bridge. I also cracked a grin.

The future is here now.

Had a quick errand to run just now between Southwark and Angel. It was much nicer than rush hour.

I thanked a motorcyclist for letting me through as I was getting back onto Blackfriars Bridge southbound. He caught me up and gave me an uncertain U WOT M8? I reiterated that I was thanking him for letting me through. Then he was friendly.

Too much aggro on the roads. With the result that any time you speak to someone, their first instinct is that you must be having a go.

Yep that's the twat

Seen :
no one.

Roads:
clear

Elephant:
not much of a mess

Temp:
crisp

not the case on my commute .. what time?

Chain slipping, v annoying, lovely weather, ear worm AEIOU by Freez.

I arrived at E&C at 8am.

@amey E&C was clear when I came through at 8:40am.

Edmund St, Burgess Park, Rodney Pl > Walworth Rd & Elephant Roundabout.

Pop out just the other side now and it's lovely, the cough I used to get at 11am (sports induced asthma) has now gone too. See the odd swan in the morning, get to ride no handed through the park whilst whistling. If I could quantify the improvement this route change has had on my commute I would put it at 43.7%.

Had a READ THE SIGNS MATE bellowed at me as I crossed paths siwth someone on Wandsworth Common. The same signs marking it as shared pathway? Had given him loads of space, rang the bell in advance and had made eye contact to make it clear I was there.

My FUCK YOU MAN in response resulted in actual proper apoplectic rage.

Riding along Grosvenor Square west to east with a couple of other people on bikes when a taxi driver with his vehicle in the right hand land and intent on turning left, decides his cab needs to be where we are and, instead of waiting patiently like a normal person and following in behind us, decides that repeated honking of his horn and just pulling his taxi in to our space is the normal, completely non-psychotic way of doing things.

I follow him, and explain at the next lights, that, as professional driver we kinda deserve better than that shit. As his fare looks on aplogetically in the back, his response is 'Am I a professional driver?' and 'Indicators'.

GET IN THE FUCKING SEA.

Thank you.

I got to stoke a dog.

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

I got to stoke a dog.

You seemed pretty stoked yourself.

Cycling and stoking a dog, can't get much better than that.

I drive an old vw, people in London still cunts

I remember that junction well, glad I don't have to do it anymore

happy dog is happy

Saw bus driver throw rubbish out of window.
Ask if he did that.
Ignored. So I continued asking and said it's disgusting.
He called me a pussyole and told me to ride my bicycle.

Nice early commute this morning, ruined tonight by having my bike nicked. Can't tell you how gutted I Am

RIP Rose PRO-DX 3000

What a pointless human being. A net negative on society.

evening commutes
bollocked another Euro newbie for having no lights
sort . it .out

Miserable train journey in, still sadden at my lost. Made even worst that the unlocked bike from last night is still there. Dam you scum bike thieves.