This morning's commute and other commuting stories

The heat can make the rails expand and buckle - generally not a good idea to rely on trains at all tomorrow.

fuck it. i'll just take a second bottle and ride anyway.
maybe i'll go to the pub after work until it cools down before riding home

How far is your commute?

about 12 miles, or i have an option to go along the canal and through a country park which is a bit more shaded, but a few extra miles...

A tad on the long side in this heat maybe, but should still be doable. Mine is just over 10 miles too, but I think we'll be fine if we drink enough.

(Provided one doesn't have any existing and relevant health issues of course. I wouldn't recommend it to my girlfriend's father for example, who's had open heart surgery not too long ago...)

Not on the bike but I'm in Sheffield station just now and there's a guy wearing a YOMP Mamnick t-shirt. Good memories from that one thread..

That wasn't too bad this evening. 23 miles to home on the Holdsworth, nice breeze, got through a litre of water though.

yeah, probably be fine. it was ok this evening, quite a nice breeze.
I'd far sooner be riding than stuck on public transport anyway. at least I can stop for a breather. got a couple of decent pubs en route as well...

I left my bike at work so I have to get the train in tomorrow. Frozen a 2litre bottle of water to sit snuggly... somewhere if it gets really bad.

My front tyre decided to have a nice little blowout (my fault, it was an older one that had been lying around which I wanted to 'use up') so unfortunately it was the train for me. Back up and running in a minute though...

+1, froze one bottle in at work so nice and cool until I got home. Glad I'm working from home today though, just went for a run and goddamn this is another kind of heat.

I feel like the office is going to be dead today - I’m pretty much just heading in for a good shower and the ac.

Overground in, bike home.

Got beeped at for taking the lane, which got my adrenaline up. Probably didn't help to de-escalate when some guy in a Porsche Cayenne squeezed past me a bit later - he seemed genuinely oblivious too when I shouted at him.

The way home is going to be interesting, I hope I manage to go without bloodshed.

PS: fuck people who buy Porsche Cayennes.

Whole journey seemed a bit aggy this morning, cars close passing and bibbing for cyclists to get in the gutter, a cyclist just stops right in front of me while we are filtering so he can have a pop at someone who close passed him, wally who was turning out of a side road who had edged forward enough to completely block the cycle lane with bonus points for the dick next to me who was in such a rush to get into the traffic 5 meters in front of him, refused to let me out of the cycle lane to go around side turn dickhead!

Still despite all this managed a pretty chilled and hungover bike ride in the sun on my favourite bike. Shame it was to get into work but cant have everything i suppose!

But also, above anything else. Fuck that bus driver on London Bridge this morning who was edging 8 inches forward everytime the lorry in front of him did so he blocked a clear run the whole way over the bridge for everyone on a bike!

left 20 mins earlier than usual and took the leafy canal route. only agro was from swans and geese protecting their babies.

this afternoon could be more interesting as thunderstorms predicted from 5pm (midlands)

London Bridge going north is just such a joke, the bit at the end where buses and cyclists are forced to swap lanes is ridiculous.
I just ride down the middle as soon as there's any traffic now, which can be a bit hair raising with mtb bars, what with all the lamp posts.

I cant be the only person whos noticed the alarming amount of people who don't wear seatbelts?

How do you even notice that? Half the time, I'm struggling to see more than maybe a head inside the cars, given the reflections, how high up a lot of drivers are, etc.

I just cant understand why they put those anti terror barriers in the road rather than on the pavement. But if they are going to put them there then take out one of the lanes going over the bridge its not wide enough for a bus and usually 2 lorries holding up the whole bridge!

How do you even notice that?

He's a spotter.

Thank you, next question, please.

Windows are down a lot

I had a passenger of a car lob a glass bottle at me on the way home which narrowly missed me. Completely unprovoked. They seemed absolutely plastered. I've got the plate and have reported to the non emergency met police online but are they likely to actually do anything?

I think you know the answer to that 🤷‍♂️

Well - first time I got beeped at for taking the lane both on my morning and the evening commute. This is not going to be healthy for me or the next person I can catch up to after doing that.