This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Beautiful.

Bit breezy this morning. Actually got blown clean off Bishopsgate onto the pavement!

Almost did a Froomey heading home at lunch with a laptop on my bike. Could have been... expensive.

Silly wind.

Also happens often on streets which are one-way to motorised traffic but two-way for cycling

I get this quite a lot. Sometimes feels like it's the car driving punishing you for cycling the wrong way down the street, since they don't realise you're allowed to.

Yep. Get this on haringey ladder where there's a contraflow sign at the junction but nothing on the road surface to remind drivers

Which street is that on?

Hampden road

Seems a strange choice to allow contraflow cycling cos it's no wider than most of the other ladder streets. Only road that I would think wide enough is Burgoyne, but that's still strictly one way.

Yeah parked cars on both sides mean it's no fun for anyone. I used it once and got revved at so just come up Wightman in the evenings instead of Green Lanes.

About 60 miles of commuting today and yesterday trundling between appointments. I swear that every single time I have been on the bike it’s been sideways rain and every time I’ve been indoors it’s been dry. Why God Why? Still better than tubing it. Would feel temporarily shunned by Mother Nature again.

Actually got blown clean off Bishopsgate onto the pavement!

#bemorelikehippy

Fucking motard knobends.

#fatisthenewfriday

There's some history behind this but I can't quite remember what it was. I think it was the council's attempt to provide a cycle route without actually spending any money or impacting on Green Lanes or Wightman's capacity.

The favoured option has always been to send cyclists along the hillier Crouch End route and I think this was to facilitate it by sending cyclists over the railway bridge.

The new version is meant to utilise the New River path at the top of Allison I believe.

The new version is meant to utilise the New River path at the top of Allison I believe.

Great news for muggers looking for an alternative to the passageway.

Holy shit, I've just discovered a new way for a driver to be an arsehole on Vauxhall Walk.

This time going southbound, which you'd think would mean any drivers would just hold their position behind me, but no, one of London's finest in his seven seater just fully mounted the pavement to pass me within about 8 inches, with two astonished pedestrians as witnesses.

Thanks, peds, for your sympathy.

Taxi had driven off before I could get deets but fuck me that was incredibly dangerous.

Report it as a terror incident.

Lots of shouting on the Strand eastbound/waterloo bridge. Turn around, a cyclist was yelling at another cyclist who was wobbling through a red light. Might lose his voice in central london.

I saw a guy the other day yelling at an Addison Lee that had gone into a cycle box along embankment. 'There was a police car right in front of you!' yeah the police don't care, stop wasting your breath

True, but while completing the commute I thought: if I saw a lycra dude yelling at a lady because her tire was blown, I'd not be very sympathetic. Oh well, water under the bridge.

Out for a ride with my gf this morning, made accidental eye contact with a guy standing at the lights, he yelled at me with quite an aggressive "FUCK OFF", startled my girlfriend, who he addresed with "not you love". Continued to talk to himself after I quickly cycled off. Feel sorry for the guy. Mentally healthy people don't react that way.

Standard procedure in Croydon

Where the fuck does this wind keep coming from?!

The south west, mostly.

Well, this morning, all the directions.