This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Did something similar. After a few hours in the pub I go to unlock my bike, find my key is missing from the rest of my set. Found it in the road about 2m away.
It just goes to show that most people aren't twats, it's only the small minority that are.

Well, only if you assume they knew the bike was available for stealing. You could also say "it just goes to show that most people are effectively half-blind". The truth is probably somewhere in between

Given the behaviour of other road users I would say that most people are mostly blind, but I get your point. Either way, leave me in my naive little cocoon for a little longer please? It's cold outside.

Road users are a different breed entirely. About as perceptive as a blind, deaf mole, with a blocked nose.

with a blocked nose

It's for the best, or they'd be able to tell I've been farting in their general direction

Just ran a red light past loads of other cyclists waiting. I felt bad.

But the light is at the end of the bus bit next to the fountains in the centre of Bristol. There is loads of work going on so you get shovelled onto the road rather than using the shared path you can usually. Also the phasing is effing ridiculous, so long despite there being very little traffic on the other roads. So I exercised my ability to think over what I supposed or expected to and did something I knew was safe.

Plus I was late for the train.

They've also dug up another section of shared path next to Temple Meads leaving about three foot wide, so again I get forced onto the road, a dual carriageway, three lane monster that goes past the station. The light was red there too but I was turning left, and honestly I have no idea why there's not a seperate green for left-turners, you're in no-one's way.

So tl:dr I found my inner Alliston and was a yob on the roads. However they were both what I call very soft reds. As in they shouldn't be there.

That bit at the centre is rubbish at the moment. I’ve also yet to see a pedestrian successfully decode the little bicycle pictures on the floor where it cross crosses the fountains or the lights at Baldwin st/castle park. Did that commute for the first time in ages today and I’d forgot how irritating it can be

Those lights at Castle Park are bonkers, I can't work them out. The seperate cycle path is nice, is it wasn't for pedestrians all over it and just zebra crossings rather that priority at the side roads.

The centre and Temple Meads are a clusterfuck. Plus that lorry drove over the shared-path bridge down there so it's shut. I can't even imagine how he ended up at it, and how he thought it was a bridge for vehicles. Surprised the moron didn't end up in the canal.

I was trying to work out how he made it to the bridge too - aren’t there bollards at either entrance?

I head up to fishponds from the centre. I’d forgotten how many twits there are on the path.

Just wondering....Has anyone ever posted a complaint about an other fellow cyclist who turned out to be also a LFGSS member or a relative?

No.

Pray tell

I'm pretty sure @rpm did some sketchy cycling once and was called out on here.

Met with an unofficial member of the 'cycling police' this evening. I was 15m behind what turned out to be a highly irritating girl, when she slowed down to let pedestrian cross the street. She was in the middle of the road and nearly came to a stop. I came from behind and did not have to hit the brakes as much as she did so I cruised very slowly to her inside and passed her (large gap so nothing too close and definitely not at speed). Received a stupid "do not undertake me" comments...Told her she must be joking but she carried on arguing...I get enough BS at work on a daily passive to take anymore on the street so told her to gfy and carry on with her journey home which she did...half a mile later she tried to squeeze on the left of a car who was indicating to turn right, but the driver changed his mind and carried on straight instead, she got annoyed and shouted 'what are you doing?'. I passed her again, on the right this time, telling her that she should have waited behind the car instead of trying to undertake it, just to wind her up. She then followed me to the next traffic lights trying to explain me the 'rules' as she said...argh...

Possible new job possible new commute. 3 mile round trip could now be 13mile round trip. If it was in the summer I wouldn't be to bothered but this time of year its dark at 5pm and the route will use two A roads I'm not keen on.

joys.....

An actual girl or a woman?

She was about 5 and riding this

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Dropped you on the fast straights?

literally... Luckily the pedestrian crossing slowed her down so I could catch up and unleash my 'no one overtakes me' avalanche of abuse...this is the real version of my story.

You're better served cycling up the middle of the Avon rather than going through that pile of shit. The 'infrastructure' is incomprehensible, even before you get on to the fact it's being re-excavated every other week.

/joy

This morning I was shat upon by a pigeon riding down Brixton Hill.

(What the pigeon was doing riding down Brixton Hill is anyone's guess.)

But seriously, ew. Poo on my nice jeans.

Passing under the bridge at Loughborough Junction a few years ago, one managed to shit in my mouth. Well, it hit my eyebrow, nose, mouth and legs.

Thankfully I was about 100 yrds from home so spat a lot and stuck my face under the shower as quickly as I could. Still not ded

There's bollards at the Temple Meads side, I don't think there are on the other, but there's 100 yards of pavement he would have driven across to get to it.

That is good luck! Quick, do the lottery or something.

I rode through a massive shit last month. It was in the middle of a pedestrian area and I'm 95% sure it came from a person based on the size of it. I've no mudguards on that bike, so I had to walk home or else I would have been sprayed up the back by human shit.

Yours sounds worse though

#trexarms