This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Clearly there was enough room.

How would you define safely? This chap apparently made it through without harming himself or any others. Does that constitute safely?

How do you know they haven't been doing that daily for many years?

I like the serialisation. Must have been what it was like for early Dickens fans.

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I preferred his later stuff.

'Greater Expectations' is one of those few sequels that surpasses the original.

‘Greatest Expectations’ is shit. Just flashy CGI.

My Brompton chain reached 26% graunchiness this morning on the way to work so I lubed it this evening along with another circle of abused metal. The best thing about commuting is the way you achieved a sense of oneness with the journey. I liked to imagined a palimpsest of GPS traces that I never recorded marking out my own personal bike lane that I consciously had optimised rolling resistance upon with the correct position slam and electronically shifted with narrow Qleats.

I didn't mind the prequel, average expectations, but I didn't go into it predicting much.

@bothwell They sort of have already - The Highway Code.

Ok, cool, so the State judges what's dangerous by what's in the Highway Code.

How does the Highway Code judge what's dangerous?

Magnet Resonance Inferomity

I do not understand this.

‘Greatest Expectations’ is shit. Just flashy CGI.

'Expectations 4.0' was just milking the franchise.

^Filth

'Big Dorrit' is nasty.

For all we know, that particular cyclist was good at that and has been cycling frequently for many years without an incident.

Which raises an interesting thought. Let's say someone rides to work every day. Say they are lucky enough to get five weeks' holiday a year, plus Christmas, and a couple of days off with a hangover or whatever. That's 45 weeks x 5 days, or 225 journeys into work a year. Suppose they perform the exact same flashy manoeuvre every morning, and come to absolutely no harm for four years in a row. Clearly then, they are an expert, and their judgement of what is safe is sound.

The thing is, would you fly in a plane, if that plane crashed and burned without warning on average every 901 journeys?

Where's the plane going?

There and back 450 times plus some of the way there.

Where's the plane going?

Well, Mr Otter, that is an important consideration. It could be taking you to the spaceport for a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on Mars, or it could be the last plane out of a war zone. But let's just say it's taking you to the office.

I used to like this thread

I almost went to Paris for a conference on a Brompton (plus Eurostar obvs) except I didn't have mudguards which meant that riding in a suit would have potentially been disastrous. But that would have made for quite a fun commute avoiding the Paris metro, which succeeds in making the Underground seem shiny clean. I have now ordered mudguards...

CS, B!

Mild today - over heated in me thermal socks. That is all

Had to stop and remove the wind jacket today as was too warm. should have removed arm warmers too but too lazy.

Told a driver she had some kind of audio cable hanging out of her passenger door. Not sure if appreciated.