This morning's commute and other commuting stories

You've got to draw the line on drafting somewhere...

I agree, but sometimes a rider will move over in front of you giving you a full facial... That's why I think good mudguards are a necessity when commuting, especially if you are going to be an inconsiderate dick and cut people up.

I was 15 feet behind, there was no drafting going on.

Rain after a prolonged dry period always means propper filthy spray. It was pretty mingin' yesterday.

Hello everyone I just got a new camera and have decided to become one of those tedious youtube helmet cam vloggers.

Thought i'd keep my uploads to short little collections of actually interesting and amusing stuff I seen rather than 15 minute unedited clips where someone close passes 12 minutes in.

Started with a bunch of clips from my old camera I'd been meaning to put together for a while, and then exported them in wrong resolution. "Enjoy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s53tOhp7HY4

Also today I discovered that taxi mirrors fold in rather easily. Sadly I also discovered my new camera has shocking battery life and I didn't capture it.

nice use of sound fx to spice things up. V creative with the doppler effect at the end there

Videos like this make me thank ghaia I don't live and cycle in London, what a clusterfuck

Riding that very same route none of that surprises me. It's actually pretty tame than it normally is.

Almost ten years of sweet fixie commutes and I dropped the chain for the first time this morning, following a bus down Caledonian Road. Luckily nothing got tangled up so other than a brief WTFIGO panic it wasn't overly dramatic. Would've been much worse if I hadn't narrowly avoided the bellend who undertook me as I was pulling into the kerb.

Worryingly I'd briefly checked chain tension this morning and it seemed ok. Certainly ridden with much more slackness in the past. No apparent issues with chainring or sprocket either. Am now worried the biek is trying to kill me.

Then I arrived at work to find this...

Someone locking their moped?

To a cyclehoop, yes.

The clue's in the name.

Don't think its that odd. I'd lock mine there too if there was nothing else to lock it to.

Still can't work out how this came to pass at St George's Circus

Today will be an unlucky day for Scorpio....

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First day back from holiday and my chain snapped this morning at the top of Brixton Hill. Must be the huuuuge wattage I've been putting through it...

Walked/rolled down to Brixton Cycles sans power and left the bike in their capable hands. Am taking the opportunity get an iffy-looking brake cable seen to and get some new bars/mudguards fitted, so all was not lost.

Combo of bus/Boris bike into the City from there, which certainly could have been worse. Must have looked properly strange on my Boris bike with my Chrome SPD shoes...

Woah. Hope that sand is just covering diesel.

Someone drove like a dick. I am detective & I win £5.

Unscrew the plastic rack and leave it chained to the hoop as a message of how futile their locking method is.

I reckon the Audi jumped the lights in front of a bus moving at some pace, which shunted it across the junction and up onto the central reservation. That's a huge impact so must have been some speed from either or both parties.

The bus is driving into the roundabout on the wrong side of the road?

Started the new commute from Sydenham this week. Was expecting big hills, no big hills, OKR's a bit shit but what a joy Southwark bridge is after doing Blackfriars for the last 3 years. 10/10, would move to Sydenham again.

#bloodycyclists

Southwark bridge is best bridge. Some days it's inexplicably back to back tipper trucks though, other days clear *shrug*

Lambeth is a good bridge.

I also like Wheatstone.