This morning's commute and other commuting stories

this line of thinking has been reported quite widely in the press and i've seen it mentioned a ton in other london centric places like the london subreddit so it's likely incorrect but is a common misconception.

Wtf was wrong with people this morning?

This. All sorts of fuckwittery this morning. I thought it may have been because I left 15 mins later but seemingly not. Large man on a cervelo with what was seemingly a turbo trainer tyre sailing past me at every red light was a highlight. Never really took long to catch him again as I'm putting out some EC1 approved wattage.
Oh, and get some mudguards you pillocks. end rant>>

Phew. Just ended a 7 week job. Getting so bored doing the same commute 5 days a week. Dunno how you salaried people bear it.

Different routes to spice it up a little. Maybe some new naughty underwear too.

I do it for a few weeks then find a different route or at least different sections of a route to keep it interesting

Rebuilt bike and didn't get round to re-fitting the guards. Nasty commute this morning.

Lols ^^

Yeah switching the route a bit seems very sensible, if only to stop you getting too complacent. As a very 'rutty' kind of person I think I would find that difficult to execute. Since I went freelance 7 years ago I've really enjoyed route-finding to my new job each time I start one.

Modify the routes a bit. Cycle with a different persona on different days. Swear at random people to mix things up a bit

Crash into the odd Lambo to spicen things up? AMIRITE??

I have about six variations of my commute depending on time and inclination.

...with a different persona on different days. Swear at random people to mix things up a bit

I don't care how you keep it interesting in the marital boudoir mate

Crash into the odd Lambo

Woah! Joke dredge is STRONG

Woahhh... Such a long time ago! I've progressed now

lmaoborghini

Roadworks all down Brixton Hill and into Brixton itself.

That shit is bananas. Avoid if at all possible.

Clipped a pedal corning this morning, it must be the first time I've done that in 10 years.

Would shit myself again!

Switched cogs last night. First commute on the new ratio 67 > 75 GI.
Only added 8GI but the comfortable spinniness of my old ratio is definitely absent. Gonna take a few days to get used to it I reckon.

Indicated to pull out to avoid a van this morning (with lots of space infront of the tipper lorry behind me) he kept on trucking forward so had to bail and go behind him. Not the end of the world but wondered why he hadn't seen me.

Looked into the cab as I passed and the absolute fucking cuntsticle is on his phone. Piloting a massive fucking tipper lorry. Cunt. Tried to take a photo of it but the camera didn't work. Then when I was stopped at the next lights he started to try and taunt me with the fact he was on his phone in the truck. Waving, whistling and pointing at it. Pathetic excuse for a adult person. Wish a lot of jail time on him. Probably after he crushes someone to death.

It was a lorry with a red OAH Logo on the side, if anyone knows what this company is (and it isn't a rental company) then I would love to know.

Lack of fuckwits .. school holidays I guess .. can we demonise kids? Like poor people? They do cause a lot of traffic.

Well, actually they reduce traffic in the holidays cos their parents are on holiday with them. Children don't cause traffic...parents do.

Roads seemed clear enough this morning - apart from sgn doing gas works down brixton hill - brixton. pretty pleasent

Lovely clear run in today from herts. School holidays and roadworks halfway up the A1010 meant sod all traffic for most of it and with a little tailwind as well I somehow managed a 19mph average for 27mi, which was nice.

Nice. Avoid the A10 going past the spurs stadium. Messy roadworks at the mo

Yeah, luckily filtered to the front of the queue just as the lights changed this morning but been stuck there for a few minutes before. Hadn't considered avoiding it, what would you recommend?

My wife has decided to she wants to do more cycling so she can cycle to her new job which is just up bt Moorgate. So we have been going out just locally to build up her confidence which has been going will, until yesterday, when in the space of ten minutes she decided that cycling to work wasn't going to work for her. 1st we had the non indicating melt who cut across, then we had the close pass by a council van, she screamed as she thought the van was going to hit me, I barely noticed as it seems to be an everyday occurrence. The best was yet to come going pass one of the posh schools in Dulwich we were riding primary as I've been doored twice there, we had and I quote 'forced me to go around on the other side of the road to avoid hitting you' She told us this as she pulled in front of us then slammed on her brakes force us to do the same. She wasn't interested in reasoning so let her say her piece and I wished her a good day. The utter fuckwit.

How can I tell the wife that it's not always like this and get her back on the bike?