This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Ok, not sure where to post this but looking for some advice on a good route from Woolwich (nr the barracks) to Kings Cross. Travelling tomorrow afternoon circa 3-4pm. I'm deffo a road rather than cycle lane type and old hand on dual carriageways etc but are there any roads to avoid/bit gnarly for that time of day?
If there's a better thread to post on let me know.
TIA

Bloomin dogue wrecked itself into my front wheel.

Went for a nice cycle on Vienna hire bikes from the James Bond ferris wheel down to the opera house and back, super wide cycle lanes. Rushed to dock our bikes within 30min thinking it was the same as London/Paris/Antwerp/Lille/Brussels/etc only to find it's free for an hour instead. Amsterdam is crap Vienna is the new home of cycling now.

holiday/10

Wait what?

Take LCN 19 then Q1 then CS6

Random dogue sprinted in to my front wheel. Thought I was going down. I didn’t. Dogue left with a limp.

In your face, dogue

Geese are less forgiving. Especially when chased by a dogue.

Sad times was pushed off my bike was yoots on a moped and my front wheel is pretty buckled. Relatively simple to correct with a spoke key or is this something that should be left to the professionals?

That's shitty. Could be a self-fix but you'll have to check that the rim and hub holes aren't cracked/stretched.

If the wheel tacoed that easily, it might be time to buy a new wheel.

Glad you're OK. Where was it? Have you reported it to the police?

thanks, found a cycling buddy at Woolwich tunnel and ended up on the greenway then took CS2 along the A11, what a load of crap, right into commercial st and then A501.
I remember why I hated travelling around BITD, still bagged a Sabbath September for a song so shouldn't complain

I have indeed, they’re nice HPlus rims though. Hoping they’ll all be fine, else I’m going through insurance.

Not tacoed, but can’t be run with a break.

Brake*

If you’ve never trued a wheel, mending a damaged rim is not the best place to begin, so get thee to a Good Wheel Builder.

Thx 4 ur kind words

If, for example, the wheel is bent to the left and the spokes on the left near the deviation are not in tension then your rim is buckled and you won’t be able to true the wheel and have sensible even tensions around the wheel.

Apparently the bike had been hacked. Nice big can of worms opened up there, then.

Have you got a source for that? Been looking for updates in the news on this but not seen anything.

Schools are back. And so are the traffic jams I also get stuck in when cycling as the filtering is a bit too hairy.

Ah well, at least there are more cycling lanes come in Belfast.

No, but that was the word around here (it happened about 5 mins away from my shop) at the time. Nothing has come of it since, so hold fire on that one

Public Transport

Daughter's first day at school this morning so roads pretty empty most of the way in, thought someone had closed london until I realised that I left an hour later. Thinking about requesting
to change my hours was so much less stressful

First ride back out since the school holidays started. I still don't like that blue barclays paint and reckon its a slippery bastard.

Other than not. Not bad, not bad.

Really really strange one yesterday: cycling down Lordship Lane, want to pull off right into a side lane so I shoulder check, no one there, indicate, pull into the centre and sit there with my right arm held out as there is oncoming traffic.
A guy decides to squeeze in-between myself and the parked cars, unnecessarily close and uncomfortable for me, but then says to me "I wish all cyclists were like you, well done" and drives off. I was so confused, took me a second to decide he wasn't taking the piss but was impressed that I indicated. I wish all drivers wouldnt try and squeeze me into oncoming traffic.

Bizarre.

Unfortunately, doing a right signal means you can legally be passed on the near-side. But squeezing you into the opposite carriageway is not OK!