This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Is that not a brief case then instead of half a seat? ;)

I asked on a Belfast forum what their maddest commutes were...somebody had a traffic cone thrown at them.

And coke [the drink not the powder] by a police officer, they got a bollocking for that when he complained.

Nope. Too spendy for my liking, especially since I already have an arsenal of front lights.
There's a sub-£30 unit on (I don't know why I wrote Amsterdam here) Amazon.

From the top of my head...
I've had a brick thrown, while waiting at a bus stop with the missus.
A maccas type drink dumped on me, out the side of a van, on the way back from training.
Various water bottle, can squirts or throws
A ped took a running kick at me after I laughed at him complaining about RLJ while I was stopped.
Couple of others have jumped out of their cars to fight me. Their organs are on ebay.
An egg, from some yoofs in a car late at night
A Jag driver tried 3 times to run me down, the last one involved mounting the pavement at speed.
I've lost count of the number of drivers that have threatened to kill me. Although I do have one special one I'm going to see if I can visit later this week.
I've lost count of the drivers that have hit me with their cars.
Airhorn into the ear from out the side of a passing car

Fun times...

I hope disposal of the bodies wasn't too much hassle, there aren't plenty of convenient bogs everywhere like here in NI :P

I had stones thrown at me as well a few years ago, but that and nearly getting killed every so often (also when driving in fairness) seem par for the course.

To be fair, I used to throw rocks at cars when I was younger so it's not all one-sided.

Many years back when I was up North I used to commute part of the same route as the school bus to/from Todmorden (think Royston Vasey but with less sunlight).

Shoes and bags used to come out of the windows often. The windows also used to come out pretty often (the big window at the back of the top deck falling out was a bit concerning), more than once a person came out of a window and one time a double seat came out of the emergency exit at the back.

This was all viewed as fairly standard with the explanation that it's the Tod bus.

Definitely thrown a few rocks bitd
We used to roll cans of irn bru (20p a can circa 2001) onto the road, and place them under wheels when people were stopped at traffic lights. (Cool story bro)

We used to do the same with Panda Pops bottles (also csb)

Yeah and apples (we had an apple tree)

I never felt the need to throw items at people or animals.

I'm quite foul mouthed irl so maybe that's my vent. Throw insults, not projectiles ;)

in the colonies, villains would stand on bridges traversing freeways and hoist a fucked old washing machine onto cars below. great way to make some quick money.

Clearly being foul mouthed is not enough of a vent for my anger. throws phone at window

If I had a dollar for every washing machine I've thrown at a car...

I've thrown bread to ducks.

Todmorden (think Royston Vasey but with less sunlight)

I used to live down the road in Halifax, Tod is special, the mountain biking in the area is amazing.

Thumbs up to the moped rider last night along shooters hill road who acted as my derny to Kidbrooke Grove.

Stones, apples, fireworks, cans, abuse..............just about anything really. We used to have a competition to see if we could get an apple through the window of a moving train when they had the old slam door slide window trains.

When I was a young man of course, not now I've been fucking civilised.

I've wasted my youth clearly... :)

Second day on a new rat bike,first single speed I've owned. Puncture at finsbury park on the way home. Realised I didn't have my pump. Remembered I had some air cartridges. Fixed puncture. Tried to inflate with first cartridge. No luck. Fixed puncture again. Second cartridge didn't inflate. Road home on a flat. (Thanks to the guy at manor house lights who lent me his pump as a last attempt).

Turns out the sidewall is ripped. Only took two tubes to find as well.

7/10, will ride single speed again (with a proper pump. Cartridges can go fuck themselves).

Cartridges can go fuck themselves

#hippyisalwaysright

Epic traffic jam in all directions on priory lane and up clarence lane. I was going down clarence lane saw the source of the problem. Some guy in a fancy merc was too frightened to try and fit his car through the traffic calming bollards. Seemed to be paralysed by fear! Was being directed through by a middle aged cyclist in shorts and a tshirt. Was a massive lol.

Something going on in Regents Park this morning. The bottom half of the park was closed with police vans and cars blocking all the gates and tape across a section of it. I wonder if a body or something has been discovered.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horror-londons-regents-park-after-11944466

terrible

Yeah a body was found in the lake apparently.