This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Saw a driver chowing down on some spaghetti while on my commute in this morning. That allowed? fekked if it is

Gluten free is ok I think.

So glad I changed my b0rkened spoked wheel last night because I also tweaked my brakes and refreshed the brake pads aaaaand: Got kerbed by a woman in a Nissan Micra on the Balham High Road this morning.
She just decided to pull over to park. Visibly lost her shit as she heard me CLUNK into her and scrape along the left hand side. Dozy cow...new pads save lives.

i give up trying to embed a gif.

haha i saw it already ;)

drop daughter to childminders in the car whilst its pissing down, by the time i get home to get my bike the rains stopped, and the newly installed saddle bag stopped the standing water in the road initiating swamp butt.
great start to friday/10

I had an odd one years ago carrying a wheel set on my back filtering traffic forgot my wider load dinged a posh 4x4 taped on the window to say sorry give details as was my fault they just drove off giving me the v' s was quite happy with that.

Cursed myself yesterday by mentioning the p******* word. Promptly got a rear flat on the way to the pub. Arse. Also didn't adjust toggle chain properly for hub gear resulting in much spinning of cranks with the neutral 'gear' and associated looking like a complete tool.

Lateforbeer /10

Re zebra crossings drivers seem increasingly to treat them as advisory. What I've had recently as a pedestrian is aggressive drivers driving through inches from my back after I've crossed.
When riding a bike I give pedestrians a generous amount of room after they've crossed so they don't feel like they're being buzzed.

I think this is the sensible approach to them personally.

Bike ok? Did you speak to the driver? Did she overtake you then pull over straight away?

Whoever decided on the phrase ‘mandatory cycle lane’ needs a slap for the amount of grief it causes.

It’s mandatory that you fuck off out of my cycle lane, not that I have to be in it.

I blame @Oliver Schick

Yeah, I've had a few shouting matches with people trying to tell me I should be using a bike lane.

"I'm not even fucking from here and I know more about your Highway Code!" is often heard emanating from my mouth in between "Cunt" and "shit for brains" and "open your fucking door and have a go"

I'm a very angry man.

Hungry more like.

Its a tale as old as time

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/hungry-man-angry-man

Hangry Hangry Hippo

Someone 'shop this...

New route not working then?
:p

I've given up on anger, weariness is where it's at lately...

open your fucking door and have a go

On your bicycle? Such generous. Much empathy.

Found myself involuntarily very loudly yelling "oi dickhead" at a dickhead who decided not to look in the direction of the contraflow bike lane before pulling out yesterday evening. First time I've ever had to make a split-second reactive maneuver riding fixed and thankfully came out unscathed.

Driver visibly shocked to see me appear apparently out of nowhere. Turned some ped heads too.

Oh no I'm still using the new route, it's only a slight detour, like 1km or so. I still have to deal with all the arseholes everywhere else.

It was lemming fucking Friday tonight. I think there must've been something fucking A40 because Uxbridge was nose to tail and cockflaps were all over the place.

Yep, crash westbound between the Greenford flyover and the Target roundabout in the early rushhour.

Riding down Hackney Road yesterday morning, the traffic pauses momentarily and some bright sparks decide to leg it out without even looking. Fortunately the brakes on the Bank Bike were working well... Jogger who was waiting patiently for a safe crossing looks up at me, shrugs, the traffic starts moving again.
London innit.

Quite impressed with the driver yesterday, she was trying to turn right from a junction and the traffic was backed up she kept slowly pulling out and just looking left waiting for a gap to get into, I think she may of quickly checked right once, even so she didn't see the 10 cyclists on the road coming towards when a small gap appeared and she pulled straight out infront of us. She had quite the shocked as we all stopped suddenly about an inch from her car. Had to laugh as she then missed the gap but did say she didn't she us. How I'll never know but Sunday drives init