This morning's commute and other commuting stories

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Same here! Is there a reliable reporting tool that doesn’t end up with a call to the police? Can’t find the right site for this scrote

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Report their wing mirror to Officer D Lock

Ask yourself, what would Danny MacAskil do?

If you're on Twitter copy @Labourstone, Clyde Loakes had been sending parking teams down LBR for this nonsense.

Oh yes, I've met Clyde. Good idea. Will give it a try. It happens a lot but yesterday evening was spectacularly bad, I saw 5 cars at least parked/stopped blocking just side of Lea Bridge. Seems to be creeping up a again and getting worse by the week

Another car a complete wreck on my regular routes. Camberwell grove

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How do you even cause that much damage to a car in an urban area...

Speeding and using your phone is usually a reliable method

Doesn't that happen to all Alfas after 20k miles @ejay2.0 ?

Our club rides go out down LBR most weekends and the worst part is that if you ride on the road instead you get absolute dog's abuse. I regularly get told how much the people of Leyton have 'suffered' for the cycle lane that I'm not using. It's the absolute worst bit of every ride.

My office's cycling facilities are amazing but the building has 6 floors of junior lawyers and trader bros.

None of their mothers work there and you can tell.

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Frozen sausages, if not just remove the laces of one pair of each shoe left?

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Every Sunday there's either a transit, scaffolding lorry or some tank of entitlement blocking the path and occasionally the pavement too.

I often ride on the road there because it doesn't feel cool riding at speed(ish) so close to peds who aren't necessarily expecting you.

Naaaah , not until just out of warranty!

Fucking grim this morning. Nice welcome back into the office haha

Lol. Could tell that was Lea Bridge Road in an instant. Such a common thing there, especially outside of some of the takeaways.

EDIT: The first time I came off my bike due to traffic was on the LBR cycleway. It's a mess, I too stick to the road. Thankfully never had abuse, but remember one driver trying to advise me to stick to the cycle path, but didn't have much to say when I explained it's probably more dangerous (at the time).

Glad I was late leaving work and missed this...

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Lotta debris about this morning obviously as well as a few trees on the Waterlink - surprised it wasn't worse.

I went past there too on the way home (with a lovely 40mph tailwind) and made me shudder to think about how badly that could have gone wrong if someone had been walking/cycling past at the wrong time!

But LBR is the jewel in the crown of LBWF and WF LCC's cycle infra.

Apart from the sections next to the Ice Rink, and some other small sections, it's an example of all that's wrong with London's infra and shows us why Dutch type segregation doesn't work in London.

And the people of Leyton have suffered enough, even without the cycling infrastructure…

Hi folks , not really commuting … but just riding usual Saturday morning domestics - South London over to Bermondsey for vegetables and … beer ….
My girlfriend had a close miss - nothing really out of the ordinary - but local wannabe gangster lad on fancy electric Trek mountain bike … he took to giving it large - we laughed in his face which sort of escalated his ranting “ my mates are on their way , we’ll nick your bikes and stab you up “ etc …. questioned him on his cycling enthusiasm , which went a bit above his head …. think it was more of a generational sort of thing ( why wasn’t he at ( Millwall ) footie ? ) but sort of shook my girlfriend up as he didn’t really understand being questioned by her over cycling etiquette , so offered me out … cue more laughing at him - couldn’t work out if it’s just local youth behaviour or just a local twat with anger management issues … but he couldn’t get his head around cycling brotherhood of the wheel questions …. !
No big deal but couldn’t work out if it was just a normal cycling interaction / Bermondsey local kids / gang showing off … is it modern London ?

he couldn’t get his head around cycling brotherhood

How could he? He's a driver cunt, let him rub dicks with other motorbikers.