This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Depends if your bike is eye catching and what lock you used to lock your bike up, but from past experience if it a nice/expensive bike it is usually taken.

Can't you take your bike indoors?

I commute in from Brighton and have a shuttle bike that gets left outside Victoria overnight.
I was quite quickly put to work form home and didn't have a chance to organise things.
The bike is deliberately ratty (I've been leaving bikes outside in London for a decade) and locked up with a D-Lock.
I was more thinking of local council taking it away.

Well I wasn't expecting that!

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What the hell. is there a d-lock? Is that frame fucked? That's a lot of anger someone let out on that rear wheel.

RIP.
Everything on that bike was bought on lfgss other than the perishables and I've had it over various guises for around 5 years.
Ride with the angels babz.

It was D-locked, I had just unlocked it.
Sadly, classic smashed by a vehicle. Frame is bent so a write off. I can salvage some bits though.

classic smashed by a vehicle.

That far up on the pavement??? That's absurd! Well, I'll have a look at work and see what spares I can draw up for you. I don't have a frame, but pretty sure I have a rear wheel you can have.

That far up on the pavement??? That's par for the course for vehicle operators.

Does anyone think since covid drivers are worse than before? It's just in my head I'm sure but it felt like before lockdown in march drivers were basically insane and they've not gotten better.

It's one way on the section and judging by the angle it's been hit I'd say something has reversed into it. Something large as well because that wheel is in utter bits.
Thanks for the offer. I'm still not commuting regularly so not in need of a replacement yet but I'll give you shout if that changes.

Wow. I assume it was a hit-and-run? Did anyone see it or did you just discover it like this?

What a shame. Hope you manage to put together a good replacement.

Yeah, no note, obviously, just found it like this.
I hadn't been back to London for 4 months so who knows when it happened.

Good to see cs7 north before Balham being monumentally fucked up. Increased cycle traffic so build strange raised islands / platforms to create choke points in the bike lane, fucking ridiculous.

Do you mean the new bus stop bypasses?

My commute is now 5m of bouncing off walls, yelling "coffee!!!" at the missus.

Oh, where was that? My boss watched some truck smear a bike rack and bikes the other day.

Get CCTV?

I hadn't been back to London for 4 months so who knows when it happened.

Ahh. Balls.

Near Victoria Station.
Can't imagine anyone having or being bothered to watch 4 months off CCTV.
It definitely feels like it just got mashed by a reversing lorry or truck. Even if they did notice they'd done it there's zero chance they'd ever stop and leave a note or anything.
It's actually a pretty rubbish place to put bike racks especially without any actual protection.
I normally leave it against a fence but new It was going to be there for some time so thought it would be safer amongst it's own kind. Turns out I couldn't have been more wrong.

Went to Google Maps to get a grab of the bike rack but thought I'd rather leave this.

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Ok, the one my boss mentioned was a truck or something going around a corner and catching a bike rack on the way around so it can't have been that.

It will remain a mystery.
I slightly mourn the loss of the bike as it was actually my best fitting. Most comfortable ride of any bike I have or have had.
But it was built with theft or damage in mind. I think it was just over £200 to build.

Is that what they are, there doesn’t seem to be any markings etc yet. They don’t look like much of a bypass more of a potential accident black spot.

I was hit by a car near work which totaled the Tripster, then when I could ride again I brought the S-Works Tarmac in and it was immediately run into by the cleaners or bin men or something while I was in the office. No fucking note, nothing, but they had CCTV so they paid to fix it but the shifting hasn't been the same since. People are cunts.

I've been back back at work for 4 weeks now. This last week has been a shit show of close passes, abuse and nearly run off the road twice. Nice to see everything is back to normal.

I've definitely noticed a lot more unprovoked anger from drivers. Covid frustration seems to be biting hard. An Uber driver had a full meltdown at me because I had the audacity to stop for a red light.

@hamham ... same here, I have had drivers go crazy 3 times in the last week so just keeping quite and getting on. Have stopped pulling folk up on things or even reacting when anyone does anything. fuck cars!