This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Five degrees with a wooly hat is too warm if there's no wind.

People having phone conversations on trains - fuck off.
People with puffy jackets spilling into neighboring seats - fuck off.
People rushing to their train on scooters - fuck off.
Designated smoking areas in train station walkways - fuck off.

Getting up early and walking to train station and no bus passing - win.

Multiple trains (national rail) too full to get on, could have walked to tube in time wasted - fuck off

Borrowed my daughter's scooter to get to my 10.52 train which was empty enough that I easily got a seat so I could do my daily team update call with no problems - fuck yeah

getting up early - fuck off

Rolling along the middle of an empty bus lane, and empty lane to my right and some douche on a road bike undertakes me. I catch him at the next lights and ask him not to undertake and he blamed me for being in the middle of the lane and said it didn't matter before putting his headphones back it, but not before I told he was a shit cyclist

Honestly I hate being undertaken, it always comes as a surprise and makes me jump, why do it when there is a shit load of space to my right?

cnts

this guy?

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

Last night had a gentle word with a woman who drifted sharply right as I was passing her in a bus lane with no shoulder check . She said I should have seen her moving over. I said that would be cold comfort if I'd hit her and we were both lying on the road or under the wheels of a passing lorry. She grumbled at me.

Driver aggressively accellerates through a red light this morning so they can shout at a cyclist for jumping the red light. 10/10 logic.

yeah but road tax

People with puffy jackets spilling into neighboring seats - fuck off.

So you call it your 'puffy jacket' now, do you?

undertaken

You can spin it any way you want, but in reality you were *over*taken, because he was faster than you, and he showed you. :)

But yes, it is annoying. It doesn't happen to me very often--I think I've only had it two or three times so far. To my surprise, one of the undertakers took it really well recently when I explained to him why it was not a good idea, and we kept chatting all the way along the contraflow bus lane in Bloomsbury Way and New Oxford Street.

I'm just big boned...

It's cool and all, but I feel the problem is that everyone expects cycle lights to do some kind of pulsing or flashing or a combination of both - I'm not sure how many people would realise that this light is specifically a brake light. As much as that could be really useful to have if it worked!

If you're trying to flog a "brake" light you might want to learn to spell brake, you spam twat.

Come on dude. If you fall off your bike and break something, the light comes on to alert kindly passers by to your situation.

It comes on brighter if I take a break? What good is that?

I want it to be bright when not breaking and fewer light when breaking.

You can see more clearly to unwrap your Kitkat.

First off peak tram on a Monday. A journey filled with regrets.

First time on the bike in over two month. Fuck.

If Southwark Council put really dodgy mats down over grass as a diversion while they closed the bike lane, and I slipped off and properly nailed my elbow, can I blame someone?

courier on fixed gear bike
rapha clad fixed gear rider
and me skinny jeans on fixed gear bike
all within 10 metres of each other tonight

i believe thats the full set.

was one of the bikes baby blue ?

Burgess park?

So, I've no idea why I elected not to put the guards on yesterday. Wet as an otter's pocket when I got home.