This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Followed a guy still wearing shorts and tshirt this morning. Not sure if awesome or mental! My ankles are still frozen.

Yeah - I saw a gent in bibs and an ss jersery at Oval. Didn't even have gloves. Nutjob.

Got the clothing just right today. Lovely ride in. Crisp/10.

It's not that hard. If you've done a workout indoors and leave or you only have a short commute.

ie. I leave the gym sweating like crazy so the first 20min riding after that I don't even notice it's cold. Give it an hour though and fingers start to snap off...

Or you down a litre of vodka

Come to think of it he wasn't actually on the bike. Or conscious.

That was last night.

time to move through the clothing ranges, as the temperature drops, advertising hoardings were saying 2 degrees, fingers even in my normal gloves were frozen and took at least 10mins of tingling pain to get back to their usual warm selves...
Thinking winter gloves, skiing socks, softshell gilet and winter hat.

but then again, looking at the forecast on Dark Skies, weathers supposed to go back to 5-11 degrees next week..

Decisions..

On an actual commuting note, lost the bolt and clamp for my Busch and Muller rear dynamo light, this morning and I'm worried I may have to buy a whole new light to replace the bolt.
Contacting Busch and Muller now, anyone know who distributes them in the UK???

SJS seem to carry lots of spares - try them?

Thanks Oliver, these are my concerns too (expressed much more articulately).

Got train. Was cramped. Wasn't happy.

Buskers on tube trains whilst I'm on my way to work are pissing me off at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqpNQ9AJYgU

Thanks Oliver, these are my concerns too (expressed much more articulately).

Pffft, you go ahead, then, and express them much more articulately. :)

Also, what's really pissing me off at the moment is people complaining about my busking.

Tbf that double bass is a bit bulky for rush hour.

tried them, they don't stock it, so have to go direct to either uk distributor or busch and muller themselves...

The only other instrument he can play is the alpenhorn.

It's actually a didgeridoo.

In that case, didgeridon't.

#youvebeenoliveraerophoned

Love to see a busker with an alpenhorn.
They could borrow bills telescopic carbon one.

The telescopic carbon fibre alpenhorns are seriously cool. I can't play the alpenhorn, but I still want one of them.

Epic beer bong
Gah.
Nupage
@danstuff

It might, but then again it might not, be noted that in German the Alphorn (plural "Alphörner") is usually referred to as that, not as "Alpenhorn". I think both are possible, but I've never heard the latter.

Small victories...
This evening got up my homeward-bound steep (for useless me) hill (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5556129,-1.0710848,3a,75y,155.18h,88.81t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVFW4wJVxHYpn7Tfh0iAE-A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DVFW4wJVxHYpn7Tfh0iAE-A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D263.31873%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656)
without standing up.
Didn't feel like my (crap, pneumonia-scarred left lung) was going to split open either.
Thing's seem to be improving.
Commuting/10
Best part(s) of my day.

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