This morning's commute and other commuting stories

5 Cups of Tea and 3.5hours later I can feel my face again. Time to start filling water bottle / bag with tea to drink on the ride in.

If you Brompton what time do you leave?

yep still 5 days

Thus far I've been aiming for the 7.20 train, TH at about 7.40, then however long the ride to Victoria takes, about 50 mins today, but that was a nice gentle one chatting to the Walthamstow guy and I went via Oxford Circus which is always a ballache. Need to find a better way that isn't Hyde Park corner.

Edit: And good effort on keeping up your commute, what is it, 40 miles a day?!

the only alternative is to go via kings cross, down euston road. anything to avoid tottenham court road etc. or go down waterloo to strand, the mall/green park sides

yes 40 miles a day:)

Public service announcement for the 'on here circa 2009' type (cammo jacket, rolled up jeans, Wilson frame, white bullhorns, royal mail bag) who I encountered around E&C this morning - GET SOME GLOVES, YOU MANIAC! You might actually be able to feel your hands and not have to blow on them every ten seconds.

Baltic/10 this morning. Hats off to the bloke in the LV jersey last night, titanium Enigma winter bike with power meter who absolutely destroyed me riding through Chislehurst. Apologies for sitting on your wheel all the way to Orpington - I would have done a stint on the front but frankly I didn't have the minerals.

Mega thanks to the bloke in the Focus estate who brake checked me twice, the second time so hard that his Sat Nav fell off the windscreen. Lost in New Cross/10.

They'll get a frosty reception everywhere they go.

So how's someone going to run you off the road if you've stopped your bike... Are you saying the car is going to stop and wait for you to start riding again!?

Christ, who's blowing smoke up your arse?

I haven't a clue who Caleb is and I'm not a member of any club. Mainly because they're full of pompous pricks, like hippy, but I assumed this place was a little different given the lads who I've met who ride fixed tend to be much less of a wanker than your average cyclist. Obviously not on here...

As you were.

Oh dear...this isn't going to end well, I fear....

/offtoshopforpopcorn

Fuck me, you're like a broken record, only with a lower fucking IQ.

People have been (b)eaten for less

I can only see one wanker here.

To be fair, you come across as the only 'pompous prick' on here. If you don't like it on the forum then stop reading it.

... who ride fixed...

Ah!

There's your problem: no-one on here rides fixed anymore.

Or anything else for that matter: it's all about memes, DIY and pets.

I'm with @cj90, who is this straight laced newbie upstart, @hippy? Reckon he must be a dixk. I bet he can't ride for longer than an hour, slowly, or so without getting tired. Ha ha. I bet he is even fat!

late to the party - but are you suggesting that recording the details of people that try to murder you makes you a pompous prick and a wanker?

fuck off to bike radar lol!

Broken record comment made my day.

Broken record comment made my day.

Broken record comment made my day.

Broken record comment made my day.

Broken record

Broken record

Roken Becord

Some guy on a Panda XL e-bike on the way home, through all the red lights doing a kind of skateboard / moped / brompton combo thing that was very wrong.

I don't see that lasting long..

Sometimes the mob mentality on here is unnecessary. Today it wasn't.