This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Though turning up to work covered in blood isn't a great look.

Depends on the job though.

Even though my knee warmers are too big and keep randomly rolling down, with the current coldish snap I'm learning to love them.
Will buy a smaller size in the future..

In London?
Its well Spain out

Only the short distance (in the order of a few meters) from the door to the road; the alternative would be levitation!
I guess any walking adds up over a long enough time scale though.

not in the mornings when I'm riding to work, 10-12 degrees before you take into account that windchill that will aggravate the pin in my knee quicker than mans on the forum can tell you to HTFU!

15 mins?

HTFU

This morning reminded me of two facts, Vitoria corsa tyres are lovely for commuting on and scooter riders are invariably cunts

Alex Sayle said cunt several times during his performance in Laugharne at the weekend and each time got a laugh including from me. I said it once this morning and had to avoid a swinging door, a lunging grab and a returned 'cunt' which this time didn't make me laugh. It's a complicated thing the English language.

Got stuck behind a pig slurry waggon for about 20minutes on the way in this morning.

Wretched so hard I nearly crashed.
I can still taste it...

0.5/10

Heads up to the guy on the motorbike who had a proper belly laugh after I called out the group of lads riding like total weapons, who then got all macho at me but couldn't keep up.

I suspect I'll be seeing this on YouTube later. You have a new subscriber, as long as you blur out my face :)

Serviced the drivetrain on the Fuji yesterday. So smooth, such quiet.

stealth/10

To all the Roadie bellends that keep hugging my back wheel - I hope you get home to find there's no new interesting articles on road.cc, the colour you want for your Audi TT is still not available and your girlfriend still doesn't want to be like all the fitness girls you follow on instagram

Lol

10/10

I get this all the time. I'd rather not get home out of breath and sweaty but drop them. It's the only way.

More close passes this evening alone than I normally get in a full week. Fuck off and die you selfish, impatient cunts.

"sorry mate, I didn't hear your drivetrain"

So smooth, so buttery

It was the only thing that calmed my murderous rage

Top rant.

Saw a lady arguing with a driver on her way to Stockwell this morning. Wanted to ask if she was alright but then she just went through not just one but three red lights and without wearing a helmet of course.

Oh well ...

how awful for you. was the driver wearing a helmet?

#npf

Lots of polis around the north end of Lambeth bridge this morning. Didn't see but were they on the south side as well? Lots of people cycle on the pavement there when coming towards the roundabout from the Vauxhall side. Cycling around those junctions is generally awful, maybe reclaim some of that enormous pavement for a bike lane? Also, would be a good idea to replace the zebras at the north end with signalled crossings as ped volume is just too high.

without wearing a helmet

OMG! Did you call the police?

They released a design for improvement there a few weeks back, with not many improvements.

Did you not even think the argument might have been about the driver stealing her helmet?