Your best and worst part of your ride to work

Best - belting down Charlton Church Road at pace.

Worst - seeing that smugly moustachioed hipster twat on the Look coming through the Greenwich foot tunnel every morning. Makes me fucking cringe to be on a bike, and to own a Look.

Good: Tower Bridge with no traffic
Bad: Tower Bridge with traffic
The surface is still really shit though...

It really is . all that rippled up into ridges surface is getting worse .

Best. Tower Bridge southbound on a picturesque morning regardless of the intensity of traffic. If it's sporadic I get to filter gently past all the cars who are restricted to 20mph, if its busy I take primary and gawp at the view.

Worst: the shitty surface of that narrow smurf lane along cable st. Greasy in the wet and populated by selfish wiggo wannabes.

Worst - Going through Kawasaki district -the roads are terrible, really terrible.

Best - From Shinagawa, going past Tokyo Tower and up and round the Imperial Palace moat.

Best - Hyde park; peace and history
Worst - Shaftesbury Avenue. Clueless workers in morning, clueless tourists in evening.

Best: hammering it over Southwark Bridge heading South on the way in. I've always got to be first over it.

Worst: Moorgate heading South on the way in. Have to walk some of it because of works.

Best - Hyde park; peace and history
Worst - Shaftesbury Avenue. Clueless workers in morning, clueless tourists in evening.

Shaftesbury avenue does my head in. Horrible road

The portion of the A10 between the Geffrye Museum and the canal; the road surface is dire

Best part early morning quiet roads less traffic and high spinning and lots of skids. Yesssssss...

Worst part is black cab drivers/HGV's...the cab drivers need to go on a course to remind them that we need room to manoeuvre just like any other vehicle and they will always be slower in the long run in London so stop trying to get ahead of us or pull up along side us.

Oh and pedestrians in the tourist areas who just walk in the road like we are supposed to stop. They must be joking.

Shaftesbury avenue does my head in. Horrible road

Yeah it gets pretty bad how the cycle lane is ignored and buses stop immediately after and delivery vans stop on it. I ride where the scooters and motorbikes ride on Shaftesbury Avenue. It gives me a little more wiggle room but don't do it if you don't feel decisive because you need to either sometimes accelerate or stop depending on the obstacles ahead. But I find when I ride it I usually feel safer there in the morning and evening.

best part: bombing it all the way down from Highbury Corner, down Islington high street and down past Angel all the way to Old street if the lights go in my favour!

worst part: southbound on Green Lanes up to Manor House... terrible road surface, buses, awful peds...

Best - Filtering traffic up through Dalston Junction and making the most of a bit of free road when greens work in my favour
Worst - The retarded Cycle Lanes through Tavistock Place/Square......

The list of first world problems on this thread is amazing.

Or maybe it is indicative of how minor the downside of cycling is. I am quite happy to endure poor road surface and some less than great road users for the benefits of speed, health and fun.

The list of first world problems on this forum is amazing.

Fixed that for you James.

Best: Riding and skidding
Worst:Arriving :(

The list of first world problems on this thread is amazing.

Or maybe it is indicative of how minor the downside of cycling is. I am quite happy to endure poor road surface and some less than great road users for the benefits of speed, health and fun.

Yeah, why bother discussing anything, there are children dying in Sierra Leone.

Hyde Park Corner.... Through the middle or stick to the road to head towards the Constitution Hill? Decisions decisions...

Piccadilly - road. Constitution hill - middle. That gyratory is lethal, especially if the Nodderatti are out in force.

Best: it used to be 10 min. Worst: now it is 20 min; as well as never any Rapha on the commute.

Best: it used to be 10 min. Worst: now it is 20 min; as well as never any Rapha on the commute.

repped for rapha comment

Best: the first bit, leafy west end streets, cobbles and barely anything else other than me moving.

Worst: the rest of it. Bad junctions, school run parents desperate to race the 200 yards in their Maserati from their front door to the school (not even shitting you, 200 yards), dodgy 4 way intersections with main roads/motorways with fast light changes, potholes regularly over 6" deep and RLJ taxi's from all angles.
Absolute worst, the last 4 way junction before work, there is no 'legal' way around it, you either jump the red at the change, jump during the pedestrian's green light, or have to sit/trackstand in centre of road with 40mph traffic either way that merge's (both ways) from 2>1 lane, so drivers are 100% focussed on argueing with each other and not the guy stood/trackstand bosse in centre of road*

*This junction I RLJ/pedestrian green jump almost every day as it is pure death.

^ Must be a nice return journey though?

In Berlin so I can't complain...
Best: heading east along the river in the middle of the night, huge emptyish roads with mostly good surface.
Worst: heading west in the day, same route, but there's a small section of compulsory bike path on the pavement - ignoring it incites honked horns from drivers, the surface is fucked up from tree roots. I always take it just a bit too fast wanting to catch the light