This morning's commute and other commuting stories

@Antidotes you go that way?

Good shout @Clockwise

Yep I do the OKR both ways for the 9-5 rush hour. I'm personally a big fan of the OKR, pretty much just one big straight line sprint.

Few things I would say, for a start it's certainly not short of any traffic lights, some days you're blessed and on others you can hit every red light.

Also there is a lot of bus lane to absolutely batter down but do watch out for a few left turnings where cars would have a habit to make a quick turn in front of you. Once you know the turnings are there there you'll always be ready though.

Road surface West bound is lovely, East bound on the other hand is a bit shit in places.

When schools are on, the OKR can start to get busy at about 8.15am, usually its not really a problem for us on a bike but there is a certain point on the lanes next to B&Q that can get a bit tight.

In the evening towards the New Cross end it can get busy, prepare for a lot of filtering and pleases and thankyous with very well mannered motorcyclists.

All of that said, I fly up and down it every week day, it's brilliant for commuter racing and I always get left alone by cars and such.

There's never a dull moment though it's a road that's lots of fun, breaks up the day nicely.

While I'm at it, I used to do Peckham/Camberwell/Oval/Kennington to Lambeth bridge and it was death.

Brace for impact in Camberwell and Peckham because people just stand in the road in the evening.

Dangerous cycle "infrastructure" up towards Oval and in Kennington, also very death, the roads are too narrow and lot of cyclists and motorists just don't have a clue what is going on around them.

I swapped to the OKR route after one particularly bad morning in Kennington where I saw two separate cyclist crash incidents, one nearly taking me out in the process