This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Yesterday’s commute home saw me meeting a sunbathing Fox in Colliers Wood

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I did that once, to my dad’s cousin’s husband (who my dad introduced to each other as they were in the navy together). I may have called him a wanker too.

Brixton Hill was absolutely insane this morning with the roadworks. Just awful.

Midges. Clouds of midges.
In other news, a whole year of commuting done. Should have kept a record of the miles

First ride from the new gaff to work. The mist and deer in Richmond Park 10/10. Being caught behind a bin lorry 1/10.

Came in about 15 mins later today. London Bridge was even more of a clusterf*** than usual. So many suicidal cyclists.

Also spotted some gents mucking around in Crystal Palace Park on CX bikes. Looked like fun.

there's a spot of surface water on the road near the Princess of Wales pub in Clapton....

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/clapton-flooding-burst-main-leaves-road-underwater-1-5720639

I think that happened as well. I am just not used to people being nice after being so long in London!

Being caught behind a bin lorry 1/10.

That's funny because I was drafting, wait, you don't mean a garbage truck, you mean something that carries skips? Anyway, they're great to sit behind if they're going at a decent clip.

Oh shit. Reposted in the 'London floods' thread.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/271675/

Obligatory joke about lorry drafting hippy?

#inb4schick
#hippyisfat

Spotted this evening, a bloke filtering on his Brompton down 3 lanes of heavy traffic on the Marylebone Road with a girl standing on the rack and holding on to his shoulders

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That's amazing! That would have made me smile!

In my view it was mentally dangerous. Hit a pothole, girl jolted off, on the floor in front of a bus - all too easy to envisage :(

Or the rack fails.. 10kg limit on the stock ones!

Uber in the bike lane by Southwark tube, shamefacedly attempting to back out

Seen this before. Generally with kid sitting/standing on the top tube (?) while their parent ferry them about. Looks uber sketchy to me.

Encountered generic angry many in car v3432435 this morning at the end of my road. Apparetnly I was in his way regardless of the red light about 50 yards down the road and the row of parked cars to the left. To show his superiority he overtook me within 5 yards of the ASL then had to stop then ranted at me for being in the way as I rolled around him. Told him to calm down and that the red light wasnt going anywhere. Im sure he saw the error of his ways..not.

Otherwise, misty.

Classic case of short sighted drivers.. the other day I had a guy tooting at me repeatedly, even though I was a couple of feet behind a bus and going at the same speed as it. He literally just wanted to be exactly where I was. Why can’t people look ahead and ask themselves if it’s worth it?

That's when you slow to a stop, throw you arms in the air and offer to use their face to buff their windscreen. #jesusmademedoit

Lights out junction of taviplace and Southampton Row. Sketchy as...

Because they cant seem to get past their sense of entitlement they get from 2 tonnes of metal and mustgetinfront syndrome. It used to get me but now I just laugh.