This morning's commute and other commuting stories

What always perplexes me with this scenario is the only excuse for driving like you stole it is either a) you're under incredible pressure to be somewhere or b ) under incredible pressure to not be where you stole it.... how do these cretins have time to then follow people about the houses?

probably... gives a skewed view to the people I show footage to who aren't used to cycling unfortunately...

Whilst you were booking a cycling holiday in Majorca... I bought a mountain bike frame designed for off road expedition touring to use as a commuter

When you were having a turbo session... I mastered 65mm mudguards with flaps

While you wasted your days racing between red lights on lightweight 28s.... I cultivated the inner strength to commute on 2.35inch beach racing tyres

And now that the entire south of england is under snow from 7 - 10am and you can't find your ass saver, you have the audacity to ask me if I took the bus in?

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Hahahaha

Bit late to this, but I knew a guy who worked for a Canadian outfit who were contracted to build it. Of course, to “save” money they got his company to build the system and someone else to build the cars, and naturally they didn’t work together, and it eventually cost a shitload more than it would have done if they’d just gone with his company. They also told TFL that it wouldn’t be able to operate in the windy conditions they found there but Johnson insisted it went ahead anyway. He described the whole programme as “a fucking mess”.

New LFGSS copypasta?

Is there an LFGSS version of the Navy Seals copypasta already?

I'm fairly new to singlespeed and I'm not up on all the fashions that you young kidz get involved in but I saw a guy on the commute in Tooting yesterday on a SS sporting reversed drop bars similar to this https://images.app.goo.gl/AgU9sUtWxRYbyvE8A

Is that a thing nowadays? I was astounded and commented as such cos I haven't seen anyone riding with bars like that since I was a schoolboy in the 70's (which also shows how old I am).

Is that a thing nowadays?

No. As ever, there's only a few lost souls who do this.

BRKLSS sleet commute was a grinner. Although thank the maker for warm showers and a drying room.

Well, it's not necessarily lost souls. When the choice was either between heavy old clunkers or a second (third, fourth, etc.) hand road frame or a cheap road bike, and brake hoods weren't comfortable enough yet to spend a whole ride on them, many people who preferred an upright riding position, rather than riding in the drops, simply turned the bars up. That way they had a lighter frame and could ride as they would on an old Raleigh roadster, for instance, but without the weight penalty. A lot of newer bikes, especially hybrids, which make riding positions possible that such people consider more comfortable than leaning forward, have been sold in the last twenty years, so you don't see this as much any more, but I remember well when I first came to London and it was a frequent sight. The supply of bikes was just very different back then.

Waterproof overtrousers were worth much more than their weight in gold this morning.

#praisedecathlon

I'm fairly new to singlespeed and I'm not up on all the fashions that you young kidz get involved in

I'm pretty positive that the mean age of active posters on this forum has to be north of 30.

Not sure if it was because I set off a bit later than usual or the weather but traffic was bad this morning.

Took a folding shopper on a what became a packed commuter train. Realised that they are not quite as compact as Bromptons.
Felt like a dickhead.

Parklife!

The unfortunate conclusion is that some people are just knobs. The drive like a knob, because they are one, and then when you point that out they get all knobbishly aggressive rather than carrying on with their journey because they were never actually up against a deadline, but were just driving like the knob that they are.

I do this all the time. But then I am definitely a dickhead.

Testify.

bastards. Would explain the supercar RLJ to stay in convoy by lambeth bridge this morning...

Cargo bike courier hand slapping on coming riders on CS3!

What, just randomly?

Could be worse.

You could have to cycle in Bratfud.

Yep, seemed to be trying to raise morale in the sleet and rain!

#rep