People who cycle to work

mate I live camberwell, work chiswick, so i'm past shepherds bush and then on a bit more each day...route is great and vauxhall bridge ok really...if you're SE beers anytime soon can compare notes...

Thats good to hear, gonna try it tomorrow morning. I really don't think i can handle the Victoria Line interchange at Ox Circus anymore.

Very tempted to give it a shot when the mornings are brighter and a little bit nicer but it's a 35mile jaunt... 99GI on the fix and a nice big road with plenty of hard shoulder mainly through countryside so you can give it welly without fear of peds or running into anything making a turn... am I mad??

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That was the night fred caught the Tube home because he didn't want to get his kickstand wet in the rain. I do catch the Tube.. every Monday. I love it. Seriously.

The only good part of getting the tube is the women in high heels, and even thats a poisoned chalace, i nearly had one penetrate my metatarsal yesterday.

Last time I took the tube in rush hour I had a massive panic attack there were so many people rammed in there and I arrived at my destination with a cold.

How the fuck do they do it? Every day?! I'd fucking kill myself.

How the fuck do they do it? Every day?! I'd fucking kill myself.

It's the only time i get to touch girls

On a serious note...it's nice to be on the river, particularly not being grown up in London.

That's nice and presumably why you spend quite so much time in the Nursery ;o)

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Too retentive a memory.

Last time I took the tube in rush hour I had a massive panic attack there were so many people rammed in there and I arrived at my destination with a cold.

How the fuck do they do it? Every day?! I'd fucking kill myself.

There are a few standard rules to lighten up the journey.

The Tube equivilent of a nodder is a Wheely (Someone with a suitcase light enough to carry but they insist on pulling it a metre behind them). General consensus on dealing with a Wheely is to either kick the suitcase or stick a foot under it and go for the tip. This makes overtaking alot easier. You get extra points if the suitcase is pink.

i ride to work cos it takes a quarter of the time it takes to walk, and the tube station is halfway between my house and work, so might as well walk it, and the bus is slower than i am at cycling...

and the bus driver is slower then you FULL STOP

There are a few standard rules to lighten up the journey.

The Tube equivilent of a nodder is a Wheely (Someone with a suitcase light enough to carry but they insist on pulling it a metre behind them). General consensus on dealing with a Wheely is to either kick the suitcase or stick a foot under it and go for the tip. This makes overtaking alot easier. You get extra points if the suitcase is pink.

Ha ha. I love the way they'll stop at the top or bottom of stairs to pull the little handle back up as people crash into the back of them.

The only other points-based game I've played on the tube is track standing in a carriage as it moves. It's hard work, but worth a go.

(and I was only on the tube with my bike cuz it was raining and I was tired and drunk and blah blah).

A train-using, erm, acquaintance assures me that there is little more annoying than those folderengers who get off the train, walk one step, immediately stop, stick their bottom up, and begin to unfold the bike, causing everybody behind to crash into them.

Has anyone mentioned that our bikes don't stop working after midnight?

Mine does - went to the pub, found that it was unexpectedly open after 11, whiskies to celebrate. Friend of mine said, 'You're not going to cycle that thing home are you, mate?'

I laughed scornfully.

Then decided that actually I felt pretty good. Got on bike. Next thing I know a parked car had come out of nowhere and I was face down on the ground with concerned people surrounding me. I got up and did the 'I'm all right, I'm all right' thing, shrugged off their horrified looks and went home.

Next morning my bed looked like that scene out of the Godfather, except w'out the horse's head.

Went into bathroom. Looked in mirror. Haf found horse's head.

Stupid bike.

Very tempted to give it a shot when the mornings are brighter and a little bit nicer but it's a 35mile jaunt... 99GI on the fix and a nice big road with plenty of hard shoulder mainly through countryside so you can give it welly without fear of peds or running into anything making a turn... am I mad??

Nah, it's a walk in the park. Only 1866.66666666 crank revolutions. Hell, over inflate the tyres and you could probably lose the odd 66.66666666

I enjoy the rare trips I take on the tube, because I know that tomorrow I'll be back on the bike and the mojority of the others I'm with will spend about an eighth of their waking lives on thier commute packed in like sardines... I sometimes have to stop myself from laughing out loud on the train...

As for black tie events, they are always more fun if you rent a hotel room nearby, prob only about £60. Which wouldn't be much more than the taxi fares (which you'll save by getting public transport in the morning)... and anyway, either it's a freebee in which case you'll be saving that on the free food/drinks or you've shelled out loads and can afford a hotel room... most importantly you can have an after party...

(for an extra bonus, try to organise whatever black tie events your company holds and make the venue a hotel, they will happily give you a room for free :-)

no, if i did it quicker, i would damn well have a good sweat on. wanna towel me down?

wanna smack my ass?

Well that was refreshing, apart from the Car fumes and kilo of diesel residue i just swallowed. Can't help thinking a helmet might be a good investment.

That's nice and presumably why you spend quite so much time in the Nursery ;o)

Are you calling me immature?

fanny... hehe.

Are you calling me immature?

fanny... hehe.

You're just immature period!

Period hehehe.

Thing that irritates me about cycling to work is how the squaw do you keep a shirt flat in your satchel? Trousers work fine but shirts come out making you look like a domestic incompetent. Someone needs to invent a device that you can pack an ironed shirt into and then put it into a satchel. How hard can that be?

In the meantime, anyone got any clever ideas for avoiding bag-related creases?

rascist/sexist!!!

Thing that irritates me about cycling to work is how the squaw do you keep a shirt flat in your satchel? Trousers work fine but shirts come out making you look like a domestic incompetent. Someone needs to invent a device that you can pack an ironed shirt into and then put it into a satchel. How hard can that be?

In the meantime, anyone got any clever ideas for avoiding bag-related creases?

Jumper/drycleaner at work

rolling round something (your trousers maybe) works better than folding.

Yep BRM has a good point. i chuck my stuff at the dry cleaners and pick it up flat and clean first thing...