This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Yeah... I am now grateful it was only my jeans. Thanks!

Bought a bunch of cryptocurrency recently... maybe this is a good omen.

Remember us all when you're richer than god.

Fingers crossed. :)

been drafting a full on motorcade the whole length of camden road. all lights green, even the holloway road junction ! epic win.

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.)

Is this a pre-schick?

Remember to stick your finger up if you want to get sacked.

A what?

He definitely had a hi-viz jacket - Not so sure about the rad symbol

Cuntball drivers everywhere in South East tonight. Mid-week stresses?

I can categorically state that the pigeon shit incident gave me no luck whatsoever.

I was visited by the p-fairy on the way home... and after rolling the bike to the nearest shop (no pump/repair kit with me) I realised I also had no wallet. Not only did I have no money to pay for the puncture repair, I also had no way of paying for the tube/bus home.

Oval to Streatham is a long walk.

Fuck pigeons.

That sucks! Uber xl?

Nah, just walked it. Took me significantly less time than Google suggested it would - 1h 10m instead of 1h 30m.

Considered running it (had my gym kit with me) but used the time to call relatives I was due a catch-up with instead.

Best of a bad situation and all that.

Glad it wasn't just me who thought this. In fact everyone was being a dick. Pollution bad or something?

In London I hated people walking around with golf umbrellas. I'm in Amsterdam now. On my commute there were two people cycling with them

Is it just because I've not been riding much lately or was the air this morning worse than usual? OK, I was riding down the A10 but it just seemed chokingly bad.

Upside to a visit from the p-fairy and a trip to the nearest LBS: nicely retensioned chain.

Mmmm.

Wrong. Thread.

Wasn’t the P fairy featured in the kompromat on Trump?

Saw a double whammy of cycling incidents today, one was total cyclist fuckwitry the other not some much.

Cyclist comes bomb down the pedestrian zone straight onto the road at the same time a car has indicated to join the around about, you could see what was going to happen, cyclist hits the side of the car at some speed. driver and others stopped to help, cyclist was moving so should be ok. I've only been working in Oxford a week and could see from day one that an accident would happen in this spot. Cyclist don't seem to care that the pavement bit ends and it joins a busy round.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7528923,-1.2678398,3a,75y,81.49h,76.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sK1kglfjPkwL8kaoFtcP27A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Second incident was a bit further up on the same road, traffic was backed up a passenger in a car decide to open the door to get out taking out the girl who was riding in the cycle lane. Cyclist was very shaken. Made me laugh as people were help all of the other cyclist just cycled around her on the pavement.

Cyclist in Oxford are truly awful

Fella rolling along the cut, up over blackfriars and farringdon in amongst the usual large crowd of commuters smoking an extremely fragrant jazz cigarette. Bit early, m8.

Van driver that lost his drivers lic.?

[cyclists on CS7 still popping those cunt pills yeh]
s'funny. Now my commute goes from Tooting up to Archway, I am much more circumspect about racing into zone 1. Not crashing/dying/blowing a knee > having to take that fucking tube is my motivation these days.

Some of the shit’s quite, er, shit in Oxfordshire today...

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really enjoying the commute in at the moment. Despite the fatigue shut down after 9,30pm.
wish the weather would make up its mind, and get properly cold, so I can pull on the thermals and just ride through the chilly season.

Gearing on the alfine is too small, but I prefer to the spinny spinny, and I'll leave it that way until I replace the frame and the cranks...