This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Keeping it fresh/mixing it up with a stack on the South Lambeth Road because my front Raceblade slipped and jammed against the downtube and resulting toe overlap brought it all to a satisfying conclusion.

Field which is usually a mudpocalyse was rideable today with it being frozen! A bumpy experience though. Nice chill(!) ride in.

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Lovely cold ride in today. Saw a goldfinch, a heron, 10-12 pheasants in a field and a frozen worm, RIP :'(

Crispy and nice.

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very nice.
would also have stopped to photograph but didn't want to remove gloves.

Nice pic. Where is that?

Did anyone see the accident on brixton road (near normandy rd junction - southbound) yesterday morning. Saw an old boy getting attended to by paramedics with his head covered in blood sitting in the bus lane just near the roadworks. police were there as well. A cyclist was helping, didnt seem like he had been involved in the collision.

Plenty of impatient cuntish drivers around there. I blame them (with no evidence)

A big fuck you to the van driver who almost killed me in Bloomsbury this morning, really the perfect end to a night shift. Love it when drivers decide to turn across a lane of traffic and a lane of cyclists without looking. Thanks to the cyclist behind me who got the license plate before the cunt sped off after gormlessly staring at me for a bit.

Yeah, I passed it at about 8.50am or so. I saw the bike laying down so feared the worst but then saw the rider helping the injured guy. No idea what happened tho.

That is Wimbledon common, before you get to the windmill. One of the highlights of my day.

Loads of diesel patches all the way from Victoria Street all the way up to Hyde Park corner, grim. Nearly came a cropper going over a drain cover without even leaning.

First commute on tubeless + new wheels. 8/10

Saw a huge patch this morning on a wet roundabout. Have never sat the bike up so quickly before.

not mine but anyway

https://imgur.com/gallery/L3LRliO

That's @RPM.

Wrong city's metro. Is that you @Thuekr?

Puncture on the way in and the way home yesterday. Changed the tyre last night so hoping for better today.

Morning to the gent on the fixed green mango with lilac rims, probably not on here (unless there’s a Didcot train catchers Chapter...?) Sorry I could help with slack chain problems but nice to chat.

Memo to London cycle commuters: Get some mud-guards, please!

So much!!!!! “You know your ugly brown striped shitty arse? Well now my face and jacket look like that too you absolute melt! Which wouldn’t have happened if you had mudguards AND if your sense of entitlement didn’t encourage you to pass all the other riders at the lights only to creep along 5mph slower than the rest of us, whipping gutter crud into our teeth!”

Lots of this today on the Romford Road.
Pretty sure there's a correlation between:

• no mudguards
  
• QR half undone
  
• backpack not shut
  

And overshoes pulled over trainers

And overshoes pulled over trainers

Is it wrong that i have considered this on days when i play football and havent got space in my bag for extra shoes?!

The one i was behind had full waterproofs on. If only there was another way to stay dry...