This morning's commute and other commuting stories

First tangle with Raynauds of the season. It wasn't even that cold and my hands were blocks of ice by the time I got to work. Didn't help that I was on an e-bike so wasn't actually doing much to get the blood pumping. My lobster gloves are calling to me.

I’ve been looking at these recently. https://www.bertschat.co.uk/collections/heated-gloves/products/dual-heating-under-gloves-pro?variant=40100552835277
But can’t bring myself to pull the trigger.

I need to get some new deep winter gloves for when it turns cold, what are people recommending at the moment (and not at that price @Chaley !)

I have been volunteering at jr parkrun recently, so I might be standing around for 20 mins or so.

As soon as I have to pick up a cold cone from the floor, my fingers go white and freezing cold.

I refuse to wear gloves for clapping kids at a parkrun, so I suppose I just have to suck it up. They're plastic cones as well, not frozen.

I'd love new hands

Haha! Still cheaper than AXS/Di2 for me though. Also I’m trying to get work to pay for them.

I bought a pair of the Sealskinz lobster boys last year and they're amazing. By far the warmest gloves I've tried. Not great for drop bars and hoods though, they force your hand in to a bit of an odd shape which gets uncomfortable after a while.

These are great (esp considering the price) https://www.galibier.cc/product/barrier-deep-winter-cycling-gloves/

and for slightly less cold days: https://www.galibier.cc/product/roubaix-vision-8-warm-cycling-gloves/

https://www.dissent133.com

I never had cold hands since I got them, and I have quite a bad blood circulation. Also layering helps a lot with the cold mornings/warn evenings like now.

Bar mitts à la Deliveroo moped rider. They eliminate wind chill in a way that gloves just can't, and create a little pocket of warm air inside. I usually don't even wear gloves with them, down to Very Cold Degrees

Layering on the cheap from Decathlon, around £40 for everything

I bought some galibier gloves s few years ago but I think the largest size they do was too small (I have long fingers!).

Pretty sure I have some lightly worn regular full fingered sealskinz gloves that I never wear. Does anyone want them for postage or London collection?

^ Yes please if medium!

Stupid suede super absorbent cycling shoes

fist bump

Noodly steel bike + London's shit roads = kills alu bottle cage, again. Alu fatigue in action.


I've snapped a few alu bottle cages on this noodly Columbus SL frame before, but never managed to snap 2 rails at the same place at the same time, like Uri Geller had been fucking around with it.
It didn't even have a bottle in at the time.

Time for a steel cage?

I have had those Elite Cuissi ones but don't rate them as found them too flexible, and had bottles bounce out of them just riding on the road.

Also annoyingly they didn't even fit their own bottles properly, I had an Elite flask thing that would fly out of those cages at the mere sight of a pebble.

Up for any other steel cage suggestions with better bottle retention ability tho if anyone has recommendations.

Mostly though I should just stick to riding my Max bikes, I don't have that issue with them :)

Up for any other steel cage suggestions with better bottle retention ability tho if anyone has recommendations.

Arundel. King Cages can get in the sea.

I refuse to wear gloves for clapping kids at a parkrun, so I suppose I just have to suck it up. They're plastic cones as well, not frozen.

Why don't you put gloves on to pick up the cones, and take them off to clap the kids...

How.. does this happen?

I guess its the steel flexes more than the alu, which after repeated stressing cracks and fails.

Obviously combined with my awesome power....or more realistically my fat ass & London's roads being as smooth as the surface of the moon. And that bike has done 200 miles of London's roads this week so has had a hard week.

Bike has 28c tyres too so its not like I'm loosening my fillings riding around on 23c's

And Columbus SL is the flexiest steel of my bikes, so I guess its stressing the alu cages more than my other bikes. As I said I've broken a few alu cages on this frame, have broken another alu cage on a Columbus SLX frame, but have never broken an alu cage on any of my stiffer Max frames.

Found them - women's large. Baby blue. Wanna meet to try them on?

Today was a Blade Runner cosplay kind of commute. Still fun tho, better than taking the bus for sure

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In the last 24 hours I have :

• had a close pass in my street. less than a foot I should guess
  
• had a binman crossing the road leave a wheely bin right in front of me, sending me over the handlebars
  
• been cut up by a car overtaking and turning left
  Its like all the cunty cunts came out at once
  

What is the current forum-approved commuting camera? I feel like its finally time...