This morning's commute and other commuting stories

first time I've owned a bike that can coast since I was about 13 so little nervous.

Prepare to shit your pants everytime the freewheel engages for like a week or something...

Then it gets better but still feels weird

Edit:
#NewPageFail

Also: raisins must be be soaked in STROH 80 and strudels are good

Prepare to shit your pants everytime the freewheel engages for like a week or something...

And to think that the drive train is completely broken as you have to "pedal over the top".

No one likes strudel. Do you not even listen to Cabin Pressure? You should.

I have done. I remember it was pretty good. I should probably go back and listen to all of them. Anyway, I like strudel. And @hippy likes strudel, and He Is The Law. Apparently.

Hippy is the @greenhell of apple pudding debate?

This so much. I live in Peckham, and am worried I'll witness a road accident involving a school-bound family some day very soon. There's generally too much vehicular traffic for cars to pick up any real speed, but as baffling as the wayward parenting is the cyclists who batter through ambers/reds at ped crossings opposite schools - seen too many close shaves recently.

You should. There's an episode where they discuss how no one likes strudel.

Monty's - the curry place. Mrs and I had dinner there one night and we were the only ones who noticed that the very low soundtrack in the background was the AC/DC Back in Black album. Manager gave us a free beer for noticing.

Nah, Hippy's nice.

I tend also to be a little Nepalese-Curryhouse blind, in general, as we have two* in the High Street in Ruislip, a legacy of Gurkhas serving in the RAF regiment at RAF Northolt.
[*One it is rumoured is about to close].
Good work on the free beer.
AC/DC the choice of the younger waiters, I presume?

I wasn't cycling at the time but I'm a total pisshead so have cased every pub within 100mi of home and work and every country I've visited. It's on my todo list I just don't go that way very often.

Am I the law?

Winning!

Cheque's in the post.

Saw that bike as a ss setup for a year and admired it, noticed the day it got stripped, and the following weeks it was picked to a carcass.
Shame as it was a great lil beater.

Got told to wear a helmet by some middle aged dullard on the back of a motorbike, accompanied with the usual "what happened to my friend" justification.

I replied several times with variations of "thanks and sorry about your mate but I've done my research and and I'm happy with my personal risk assessment"

What did I get back? "There's only one helmet a lady needs"

Fucking entitled prick.

Uncool. Seriously uncool.

"Middle aged dullard" is great though. I'm co-opting that.

I'm channelling it.

You're living it.

I'm loving it.

Oh, and: fuck off.

Beat it.

That's not very nice.

@rpm really gets around...

Contemplating strapping a kitkat to my fork crown...

Was trying to think of a retort along the lines of, "thanks, but a small helmet is worse than no helmet at all" but a swift "go fuck yourself" is normally all I can muster in the heat of the moment. And even that needs to be rehearsed.