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Currently working out train times as with that extra elevation I aint doing 30 miles to get there too!

EDIT: not too sad, train takes 1 hour 27 there and 1 hour 12 back. Certainly quicker than ill be riding anyway

Plus lunch stop right?

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ouch

Have enough trouble doing kick ups with my gut Id have bruised knees if there was anything else there

Either I had a tailwind this morning or cycling without a bag full of clothes and laptop makes a huge difference!

Perfek thanks

Have we a finalised route for this yet?

Saw 3 examples of some horrendous cycling this morning all from the same person all within 50 metres.

Firstly he undertakes me at speed just as I am pulling away from the lights (I assume he wasnt going to stop as they had just gone amber when he flew through). There was barely enough space to fit through let alone at speed.

Then he takes his dickish riding to the outside of the traffic we were approaching, and I watch as he filters down the right hand side of cars turning right (again at a speed that was too fast for the situation) making the car who had started his right turn have to stamp on the brakes.

And to top it off we get to the front of the (busy) junction of Creek Road and Deptford Church street and he flies through the red light without slowing to even check if it's safe to do so.

Slogged it in today on the promise of a free (and boozy) lunch. Bloody freezing and slow!

Boss texts me at 10am saying hes had to take his kid to the hospital so he has had to reschedule.

Did vote though

This drives me mad. Feel like its a game to some who seem to go out of their way to look in the opposite direction

Coming down Greenwich park hill, start to slow when I hear a delightful grinding of worn through brake pads.

Oh well, need to get the Dolan back out for some miles before January anyway I suppose

I know, whenever I've had to take both sides off for any reason its involved scraped knuckles and may swears. Was almost jealous of him!

Looked like something similar happened to someone turning from Tooley Street onto London Bridge this morning? He was riding along fine then all of a sudden he was on the floor. NDS crank on the floor about 6 feet away from where he hit the deck with the DS crank along with chainrings also detaching themselves. Was weird

And overshoes pulled over trainers

Bloody roundabouts!!

Very nearly had a "Rider Down" thread dedicated to myself this morning.

Approaching roundabout entering Greenwich Park and nothing coming from my right so my right of way, pick up truck coming from left but he has to stop right....right?!?! Grab a handful of brakes as he shows no sign of slowing down and he misses my front wheel by inches, my shout obviously startled him into life as he then decides to brake (after passing me) to skid to a stop 5 metres or so past me.

Now I am a confident rider and I rarely think of cycling as a dangerous way to commute but this really made me think if I'd have reacted 1 second later there's a very real chance I would have been, well, killed.

After the adrenaline has worn off slightly I'm so angry that whatever reason he decided not to stop (not paying attention or deciding he wasn't going to stop for a bloody cyclist) he could have wrecked the lives of my wife/children!

Not even sure what the point of this post is (and I know everyone obviously does their best not to be killed just going to work) but be careful out there folks.

I was pulling out of bread street onto cheapside as you were doing the opposite.

@cagimaha again at bread street this time (I swear I am not stalking you).

Wowzers that was cold

Well that commute was awful. Probably a bit more jumpy after this morning and everyone is trying to adjust to cycling in the dark.

Plus side is my Arkose has been put back together with a full quota of spokes on the rear wheel again and a new saddle so let's hope tomorrow goes better

Back on the comfy gravel bike tomorrow I think

Just feels like bruising at the moment, must have hit the van harder than I thought

Stupid adrenaline, shoulders bloody killing me now!!

"Well, it's certainly true that cycling doesn't improve your
character"

Tell me about it, I'm a right dick!