This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Normal slack or stretchy jeans on a cutout saddle and a long sports material jersey do me fine.

Would be agony on a non cutout saddle as normal jeans have a seam in a very, very wrong place :)

Swrve, Cadence, Howies, Rapha...

If your tyres bead is not sitting in the middle of the rims, they're extremely hard to removed, as illustrated below;

Fair enough. You know what else is shit? Conti innertubes. Stupid removeable cores.

Just tighten them up a bit more.

re: jeans
whyohwhyohwhy do 'cycle spazzific' jeans always have to be skinny? I aint no baggy hat wearing long fringed taylorswitfoscreamocore teenager.

Anyway very short legged baggy fit is so now.

Nobody say 'because chain'. I can roll or tuck like a goodun.

Thanks. I didn't realise that rapha made jeans...

Cadence and Howies look moar dad friendly, will investigate.

My muxu ones have a big of baggy in them.

I tightened them up with an adjustable spanner when I first fitted them (after trying to use my lezyne screw on pump with them). Since then I've pumped them up a few times with a non screw type pump but whilst removing it to pop a new tube in after the puncture, I unscrewed the little valve cap and the core came out with it. Total shite!

TomTom survey results.
Belfast worst city for congestion in UK, London second.
Summary here: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/If-you-think-city-traffic-has-gotten-worse--youre-right-3810.php

Always amazed by how empty london gets over bank holiday weekends, apart from obvious tourist traps and shopping streets. Reminds me how many people who live and work in london aren't born and raised here.
Roads so fucking empty it makes me want it to be a bank holiday all year round...

I'm not so sure, driving round the suburbs is grid lock. I wish all these tossers would piss off back to work.

Suburbs ain't london proper so fuck 'em

I'm not so sure, driving round the suburbs is grid lock...

Ummm.

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National go to B&Q day innit. Got everything I need for all my quick DIY jobs.

Cycling down balham hill 2 abreast with a random girl who started talking to me, minicab guy starts hitting the horn as she should "get left". Entire length of balham high street both cycled behind him hurling the usual anti-cycling abuse that's equally applicable to urban drivers "middle of the road" "no helmet" "no high vis" "put your foot down" "drive, move, get off the road" "it's green, drive your car" and so on. Many balham residents enjoyed it, minicab driver vanished into his seat.

Reminds me how many people who live and work in london aren't born and raised here.

ukip thread >>>

Get bent saffa!

#stopthehate

Cycled in to work @ 8 this morning. Crazy gusts of winds, debris everywhere, soaking wet and had to shoulder the bike and climb over a fallen tree at the top of streatham common that was blocking the whole road.

2/10 would not do again

#stopthegrump!

06:30 Got a puncture just outside my house,went back for spare bike.Got stuck in garden when the wind blew gate wrong way,kicked gate off hinges and then got blown by Katie all the way to Wimbledon.

Women's cycle jeans all seem to have this problem... Unocyclingquads models? ;)

Living in Belfast that doesn't surprise me.

School runs are impossible to do here with public transport hence ppl drive to do school run, as by themselves they can use public transport.

The public transport routes tend to not go past school or not past work, they all go via the bunged up city centre leading to a crap itinerary.

Every time schools are out congestion drops massively as ppl can leave car / don't all have to use a couple of roads at the same time.

They're working on lots of cycle lanes, but if you live in the sticks you may as well drive as cycling is too dangerous on many routes and public transport costs more than a car.

But there are changes lately with bus lanes, cycle lanes, drive and bus into town.

May Street leading up to Donegall Square South (Behind Belfast City Hall) is utter hell in rush hour.

The route from work to my GFs work is 1.7miles. Takes a solid 30-35mins in the car.