This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I did Canada Water to Green Park for a while in The Before Times, tried various options and settled on Southwark Bridge pretty quickly. Now doing Greenwich to Liverpool Street and cross at Tower Bridge, it's grim unless you hit it at proper antisocial hours.

Yeah that bit is totally bobbins

Two rare sightings this morning
Big old barn owl and a proper fixie (if anyone on here’s riding to work in Didcot, giz a skid.)

Yeah Tower Bridge is shit, but it’s only a couple of minutes of my 1 hour commute. I can live with it-)

@ElGonzo C10 is quite nice route.

Yeah Southwark is one I plan on trying. Think it might prove a bit annoying once I'm on the north side but worth a try.

Used to use Southwark a lot and it wasn’t too bad for traffic. If you were going north you could also go straight into a shared use ped bit of the city (I always turned left for lower Thames street) and going south it was handy for accessing the backstreets around GSS.
Tower bridge has always been horrible, imho, and Waterloo is just crappy for traffic at both ends.

Southwark was my old fave (even though that was where I smashed my collar bone in 2017). Totally segregated, generally very safe and the north side lights are very cyclist friendly. You can avoid the worst bits of the approach by diverting along Great Guildford St - longer but less cyclists and left-hooking trucks.

That was when I went Penge, Crystal Palace etc to the City. Have switched now to Waterlink way, Catford, Nunhead, Bermondsey, London Bridge route which is very much more relaxed and easier on my f-ed knees.

Ah hooded crows, I've enjoyed their company, along with jackdaws since leaving London.

Wightman Road commuters: there's a oil slick along the northbound lane so riding centrally in the lane not such a good idea if you plan on braking at all. Luckily, I seem to do all my stacks in the same pair of shorts so the ruination is kept to the one garment.

I rode up there (as far as Seymour) about 6.30 and didn't notice anything.

However there was something along the kerb between the bridge and jewsons when I was walking that way Tues lunchtime. Some attempt had been made to cover it with fine gravelly-looking stuff. Presumably tonight's was fresh?

RIP your shorts.

Didnt notice anything last night. Trail starts between Cavendish and Duckett and I binned it just before Pemberton while slowing ahead of the zebra crossing. Bloody cars, pissing streaks of doom.

If you were going north you could also go straight into a shared use ped bit of the city

One of my fave bits of commute was doing this up to the Guildhall, Gresham St, Wood st or the next one over, round the Museum of London (RIP) up towards clerkenwell.

One of my least fave bits - the clusterfuck of cyclists crossing Southwark St heading north to get to the bridge. Invariably squeezing and surrounding whatever vehicles also waiting at the lights and doing shoaling undertakes when the lights change. Is it still like that?

I've had a massage on a plane. Virgin Upper Class when I worked in the music industry.

Kept my cock in my slacks though.

#golfclub

Lol - wrong thread, think this is supposed to be in the news one.

You should leave it up though obvs.

Fortunately I moved work to Vauxhall so I just have general lunacy in the bike lanes at the one way system to contend with .

leave it up

KennethWilliamsface

a bit different to the usual commute stories anyway

I think someone is going to get seriously hurt on that new cycle path on King Street, Hammersmith...

Agree, particularly on the contraflow section around the junction between Rivercourt Road and King Street. The number of drivers that fail to check both ways before pulling across it is shocking. Putting up yellow temporary signs about a two-way cycle lane will not fix that. Perhaps it needs traffic lights there?

Not one day goes by where I see something sketchy 'nearly' go down. Zombie peds vs deliveroo peds vs wobbly cyclists.

wobbling isn't a crime

neither is being a deliveroo driver, but you get my point!

is "fixie" back? past 2 days seen 3 people on relatively new fixed bikes of cinelli nature but no foot retention and in lycra clothing. Just wondering if I'm going to become fashionable again

I experienced that for the first time on Thursday. Even on a massive cargo bike that makes an ungodly amount of noise I was seemingly invisible.

Grown Man Sport

I enjoyed that!