This morning's commute and other commuting stories

OK OK, I clicked.

Gyms on trains would be a far better idea, but if I pitched that on Dragon’s Den they’d tell me I was out of my sodding mind.

A gym carriage is a great idea. Would make my trip back up norf to the folks much more fun.

totally! lesson learned, it was fairly cheap when I was experimenting with different gear ratios. thinking steel chainring asap too.

A gym carriage is a great idea.

... with loads of spin bikes in there, hooked up to a storage battery. You get discount points from your journey cost for every watt you generate.

Now you're talking my language.

Now to persuade Virgin Trains East Coast to collaborate with Virgin Active...

Holy crap, it's coming.

https://www.virginactive.co.uk/press/2015/fitness-coach

Edit: Just checked the date... I was so happy there for a second.

There's a large amount of loose gravel been shed on Hyde Park Corner. If you're passing through that way be cautious, its slippy!

it was a fully mounted scoot... quite ungainly

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Aah, the scoot bikesnob calls the Schluff or something.

Aweful (sic).

Ah, is that the one adopted by those people who aren't quite sure their handlebars are narrow enough to fit as they try to cram themselves into the gap down the left side of a left turning bus?

Not much new in this Cars v Bikes v Peds article but well written
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/cars-vs-bikes-vs-pedestrians

tl:dr
Everyone thinks they are right. Everyone hates everyone else

A train operates at 25000 watts, a human outputs 400ish, 700 people on a train, as long as everyone takes a turn I say it's feasible

A train operates at 25000 watts

Are you sure it wasn't 25 kWh per km, rather than 25 kW average power ?

I found a thing that says a train's CdA is about 2.8m², so that would mean if all 700 passengers are pedalling all the way at 200W, you could eventually get it up to about 95 mph.

Are you sure it wasn't 25 kWh per km, rather than 25 kW average power ?

It was a caption in a GCSE science text book... Fermi calculation and all that.

95mph. Not on the lines up north, what with cows,leaves,morons,etc on the line. And really why does snow stop a train... Stick a big plough on the bloody thing it's heavy enough. (Yes I know I hideously over simplified it)

Where's my copy of Daily Fail?

@middleofnowhere nope I think schluffing is when a cyclist is doing something illegal or sheepish, in the saddle, but pushing the ground not the pedals. I think. It was funny at the time.

I think the scenario you depict could be named 'Darwinning'

tbh I'm glad generator bikes in trains has tickled a few of you. Not completely crazy is it?
Also the frisson of trains would only be double if we were working out rather than playing candy crush whilst thinking each other are a seven.

Aye, net result is Darwinian but that's what I was getting at. Astride the bike but with one foot on the pedal one foot on the ground gingerly cramming themselves into an non-existent gap, perhaps even leaning the bike over slightly to make it fit.

Nice little sprint around 7.30 tonight out of surrey canal path along OKR to Bricklayers Arms with tattooed head guy on plain black fixed with tt bar setup. Sup bro

To the cunt who rode THROUGH the Remembrance Day procession on Threadneedle St just now - you are a cunt.

What??? Ffs

Much filtering practice on the CS7. Potential left and right hooks everywhere.

Maybe he wasn't from the commonwealth and doesen't know what remembrance day is ..

After the manic of Saturday forum ride in Epping forest, the bike is playing up and has become a tad unresponsive so I decided to take the old gal to Sam at LMNH to diagnose the problem. Initially I thought it was just the brake pads were ruined, but apparently it might be more than that!

Let's just say riding into work/mechanic's shop it was bum clenching!

5/10