This morning's commute and other commuting stories

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  • a shoulder check wouldnt go amiss especially on the NS cycle superhighway. As did the guy having a go at another chap on a santander bike to 'stay in lane'

  • 1h40 minutes hard cycle on heavy tandem with wee man VS 45mins car run: I still prefer the tandem. So much breathing car fumes in congested traffic, blergh.

    Just not suitable during work days with a 1500 school finish and 37.5H a week job O_o

  • He was undertaking it. He squeezed through just where the two lanes narrow immediately to one (the left lane stops at the works entrance), where the keep right sign is.

  • I've noticed a few cyclists now like to give other people the benefit of the tunes they are listening to. A chap this morning playing tinny K-pop (my guess) on a fist-sized speaker attached to his bagstrap. A couple of days ago a woman with a very functional pair of panniers playing 'Love lift us up where we belong' from an unidentifiable (but very audible) source.

  • What in the ever loving fuck happened in Brixton tonight? Every police car in South London seemed to be there - absolute gridlock until you got past the station.

  • Coming down from Blackfriars along the segregated highway at about 5.15 tonight some prick was arrogantly sauntering through the red lights while the rest of us waited (peak time so rammed 20 meters back etc). His tactic came back to bite him in the arse just before southwark station: he filtered onthe right hand side to the front of the long queue of cyclists to only find out loads of people were turning right and not going straight on. They all made him wait in the middle of the junction while he was getting more and more frustrated trying to barge through them. So many people were openly laughing at him as they went by!

  • K-pop? Not I sir. Kylie or gtfo

  • I came thru Ally Pally this morning - swear I could smell Autumn..............................

  • Hmm... there are some reports on social media that conflict with the official message. Interesting.

  • smell Autumn

    I love that smell - haven't had the pleasure yet this year though.

  • Anybody had the displeasure of riding near this c*nt before? Between Bermondsey and Aldgate I saw him RLJ at every set of lights (6/7 by memory) when I pointed out that he was being a dickhead he said I was following him before jumping another red and nearly hitting a ped!


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  • My laughably easy 2 mile largely flat commute has turned into a hilly 14 mile commute. First attempt was today, really need to HTFU.

  • also, I descend like Andy Schleck, total wuss.

  • Cycling to work in London is ok

    https://ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/

  • and he's got a christams tree on his back. arseface.

  • Great spot! TBH he is a city boy fair weather rider, as soon as temps dip below 15 he'll be back chewing on somebody's armpit on the Northern line, with the creeping threat of obesity and heart disease... Seems like a convoluted revenge, but I'll take it.

  • Decorations go up this weekend no?

  • Saw a green single speed with a brown Brooks being loaded into the back of an ambulance just by the Pub in the Park entrance to London Fields - hope whoever it is is ok!

  • Sailed in on a wave of green lights plus tail wind. Got to work in near record time without breaking a sweat. Don't think I unclipped all the way from Kingston to Westminster. 10/10

  • I must have missed the memo which said that going through reds at junctions is totally cool as long as you unclip one foot and give it half-arsed scrape across the floor a couple of times. I can't believe that anyone genuinely thinks its an excuse but the number of people who do it would suggest otherwise.

    Chat with a friendly belt-drive dude at Newington Butts though.

  • Took Swains Lane in today for 1st attempt - wow - 3 laps of regents park then continue to work. Fairly pleasant morning so far

  • Up there with the wobbly creeping death trackstand into RLJ as an utter cunt move.

    Walking your bike through a red is apparently legal.

  • Thought you meant that bit. Sheesh, that's a tight squeeze!

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