This morning's commute and other commuting stories

but do you go through that weird bridge/building thing at the T junction of Clarendon and Bonfield?

Another one; you could drop down St Johns Vale and into Brookmill Park then over the cycle bridge at Elverson Road into Conington Road, Lewisham Road then that silly cycle path in front of the police station that drops you by the clocktower.

@amey I've been doing it since before you knew br1 was London. Clarendon: I see it; no, I just grind it out on the A21 or do HGL if I'm feeling precious (and down through Mountsfield park, because summer). The place on Ennersdale does good Pho if you've not tried it.
@dubtap this sounds fun, gonna give it a go tonight. Is the a20/LHR back to normal now?

@6pt Wasn't this morning, resurfacing still required I think. I turn right up the High St then left into Albion Way, Clarendon Rise, Bonfield Road, Gilmore Road, Eastdown Park to get back onto LHR past the works

A21

I do courthill > hither green > minard

Which reminds me what are your thoughts on this? Came as a surprise when I took 124 the other day .. got me excited as it might put a flat white in walking distance from me ..

Any idea what shape that development is taking? Not seen anything about it since before they knocked the prefabs down. You're right on the edge of the Corbett there and still a bit netherworldy, you should obviously be looking at Soul Kitchen to be in the heart of things ;)

Bus driver on london bridge stopping half way across to "have a word" with a skip waggon driver... never mind anyone else on the bus, or the bus behind that, or the bus behind that, or the bus behind that, or any one else trying to cycle in the least grid locked part of the road.

Moan:

Got honked at for taking centre lane after some lights, in anticipation to make the next right shortly afterwards (is this not standard practice?). Smiled and waved at the lovely chap while he undertook me. He proceeded to accelerate to an ungodly speed down the road. What upset me more was an old bloke on a bike calling me names and shouting 'get a helmet!' after me. Also ignored. Can only assume he's been broken after years of abuse of cycling in London.

Oh, and mildenoughforatshirt/10

Hate the roads in this kind of weather. All that nasty viscous road slime. Mudguards rule!

So.mild i ditched the armwarmers. Clusterfcuk from brixton hill to brixton. Must changed tyres losing grip. Mild/10

So warm. Such sweat.

Halfords meal deal hell on CS7 this morning. Also, if you ride south over Blackfriars around 6pm look out for John Tomac on the On One Inbred, he's a menace...

Lovely to liberate the fingers, ears and knees this morning. >>>What I didn't wear today thread.

I am gonna roast on the way home. Yuck.

I ran to work this morning, suprisingly warm, saw a big rabbit, thought "that's a really big rabbit" then realised I was looking at a deer.

needmoresleep/10

The Queen's swans were bathing in the Lagan this morning close to the cycle lane...nice from a distance, murdery and hissy up close.

Very near collision with taxi-hailing ped stepping into (segregated) cycle path. He apologetic, me gave him cool but nice nod of acknowledgment.

Karma not obvious in my favour as left lights on my bike parked up outside of work which were then stolen.

Had a fun experience last night on the bridge over Galleywall road on Quietway 1 as my tyres dropped into the join between the two sheets of metal that make up the surface and I found myself 'on rails' for a squeaky couple of seconds. Popped out on the other side though. 700x28 tyres, be careful there.

Also joy this morning as road warrior filtering in front of me to a red light decided not to clip out put his hand on a bus next to the driver's cab instead. Queue the driver bouncing the hydraulics up and down to try and shake him off.

Saw a motorbike casually jump 2 sets of red lights heading up to Aldgate from Tower Bridge. Not 'oh he just missed the end of the orange' jumping, but full on everybody had been waiting for 20 seconds and he pootles through, then another in front that had been red for at least 30 seconds right in front of me. Not driving fast or especially dangerously otherwise, but WTF? I thought it was only cyclists who did that!?

Nope I've seen vans do that

I see police and ambulances doing it all the time!

Report them to the po...
Oh wait.

Last night I was waiting at some lights on Camden Road next to a car. The lights were red for us and green for traffic going across us. The lights went red for everyone and green for the pedestrian crossing at which point the car went through the lights like it was no-damn-thing.

Well, all classes of road user jump red lights, of course. As I say all the time, the reason why it's become so visible for bike riders is just because of All Green Pedestrian Phase junctions, where people on bikes use the pedestrian phase, with all three or more queued-up lanes of drivers watching. Red-light jumping used to be a distant second to footway cycling in the unpopularity stakes, but that changed when AGPPs started to become more widespread.

the car went through the lights like it was no-damn-thing

The poor driver, it must feel terrible to be caught up in something like this.