This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Same, I just get used to sweating and then ditch it and get used to freezing.
Call it temperature acclimation training.

I would like a jacket that is just pockets and zips everywhere.

Rain: Close the zips
Heat: Open and let it all blow in and out.

Another solution is arm warmers and wind stopper gilet, that's my go-to "summer" (there is no summer here in NI, it's a lie) solution. But it was proper bucketing yesterday...

Would suggest an old-skool cape, but I understand it also gets a bit breezy round your manor. ..

I normally wear an old-as-fuck worn out Lusso softshell but it got caked in mud and washed so I'm currently modeling the cheap-as-chips jacket I got from Madison in 2012. It's pretty basic but has pit zips and maybe side pockets. I have a Milwaukee jacket but I normally use that off the bike and I have a Rapha jacket but that's for long, grim winter rides not commutes.

In shorts now. Soon I will be back to merino undershirt and t-shirts.

Cotton shorts, merino baselayer and a flannel shirt this morning

Melty McSweatFest/10

should stop racing motorists

Very much this.

If I time it right I may just about be able to sail down to work like a flying squirrel ;)

So far the epic cotton stuff is ok, pit zips are nice in theory but the way you sit on the bike they don't actually catch enough wind to vent I think.

Just get a gabba?

Heading out to a gig tonight in Shoreditchy area so I Bromptoned it to Norwood Junction and hopped on the Overground. Blagged a seat next to the door which meant I had space to put the Brommie. Sat reading my phone for about 15 mins, oblivious to everything and as we leave a station the woman next to me harrumphs and gets up and a heavily pregnant girl gratefully takes her seat. I hadn't even noticed her.

Poor quality gentlemanning, I'm afraid. Sorry.

http://www.cycletoworkcalculator.com/

To be fair, no reason why the harrumphing woman deserved the seat more than you, right?

The fine line of equal rights.

Ignoring the 'rules', it doesn't make any difference whether it's seat one or two really.

Pragmatically I'd say yeah, harrumphig should just get on with it...

Northbound Waterloo Bridge traffic lights: lovely sunny day, 100m from destination, I'll turn my camera off in prep for arrival. 50m from destination, knocked off by blue Luton van who drove away. Fuck.

Might look for some CCTV around Aldwych.

Shorts, ditched the jacket, mitts.

Turned out to be about 6 degrees... probably could've kept the long fingers on a while longer.

Chatted to another rider on the way in. Happy days.

Sounds like a shitty start to Monday, sorry to hear. Hope there's some videotape of the git for you to hunt 'em down.

So funemployed at the moment I could really do with a commute right now. Anyone need a video editor?!

I've got this grainy footage of a grassy knoll from back in the 60s or something. Looks like some kind of action movie... perhaps you can clean it up a bit?

A colleague of mine lost a tooth and went over the handlebars when somebody went into the lane she was in and forced her to brake hard.

Fucks sake people, watch where you are going.

FFS hippy I'm going to starve and you're doing JFK jokes. Doing an edit on the telly is serious bizniz.

I'll send you all my Fly6 videos and you can find the juicy bits and post them all to youtube on my Cocks of London channel...

juicy bits

the cameras meant to point away from the bike.

It is?

No wonder I've found it hard to read number plates!

He took the description of rear view camera and interpreted it as only an Australian would. Until someone spotted how it tampered with his balls.

Anyone need a video editor?!

Potentially Wapha, for actual...