The daily "I cycled to work" thread
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yellowjack said:
BadgerBenji said:
Rode in this morning, wet roads in places with plenty of gravel and debris dropped by tractors, won't be riding now for 4 to 6 weeks, crshed and broke my right wrist, gutted.
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No way. Sorry to hear that. Heal well Benji, hope that you're back up and riding as soon as things have mended.Fingers crossed but my commuting is going well. I've signed up to do the Great Weston Ride next month and I've started taking longer routes home from work.
Great ride into London today, perfect weather.
I'd been apprehensive about cycling in again because I had an unpleasant kind of road-rage battle on the way home on Friday night, but a nice ride in has cleared the fog.
Sorry to hear about the broken wrists and mechanicals, get well soon!
I'd been apprehensive about cycling in again because I had an unpleasant kind of road-rage battle on the way home on Friday night, but a nice ride in has cleared the fog.
Sorry to hear about the broken wrists and mechanicals, get well soon!
Yesterday, left work at 6pm to discover a puncture, then got verbally abused by a fat midget on a Brompton for a storm in a teacup incident with his GF/wife/sister/all of the above, for which I instantly apologised, apparently that wasn't good enough.
Missed my train by 3 minutes.
Bloody cyclists.
I'm actually glad it's raining, it might persuade some of them to catch the bus.
Missed my train by 3 minutes.
Bloody cyclists.
I'm actually glad it's raining, it might persuade some of them to catch the bus.
Perfect Sun shine, clear blue skies, not too hot and a slight sea breeze this morning.
Torrential rain, big enough puddles to qualify as a small flood and bit more wind.
Thirty three minutes in and thirty three minutes home?
Is it just me or if we get a more than a little bit of rain everyone forgets how to drive?
Torrential rain, big enough puddles to qualify as a small flood and bit more wind.
Thirty three minutes in and thirty three minutes home?
Is it just me or if we get a more than a little bit of rain everyone forgets how to drive?
BadgerBenji said:
Rode in this morning, wet roads in places with plenty of gravel and debris dropped by tractors, won't be riding now for 4 to 6 weeks, crashed and broke my right wrist, gutted.
Arse! bad enough not being able to ride but contending with public transport...you have my sympathies!Got a turbo so you can keep the fitness up?
Thanks guys, had a fun day playing on public transport to get to the fracture clinic, and great news from the consultant, he couldn't see a break on the x-rays so has put it down as soft tissue, with it now looking like two weeks, so far better outlook, quite how two hospitals can get it so different is surprising. I do own a turbo, but hate them, ideal for warming up pre race but struggle to get motivated to get on one otherwise.
t cloud that is following me every time i clip in .Set off on a flat rear this morning, it took a couple of 30 yard go's down the road and stopping because 'something doesn't feel right' until I realised it was actually flat.
They are Hutchinson Urban Tour tyres with really thick walls which look fine until you put weight on them, and then they only bulge out slightly, so I'm surprised I managed to get a pinch puncture, although I hit a pothole pretty hard yesterday aiming for a rapidly closing gap between 2 approaching cars from different directions.
They are Hutchinson Urban Tour tyres with really thick walls which look fine until you put weight on them, and then they only bulge out slightly, so I'm surprised I managed to get a pinch puncture, although I hit a pothole pretty hard yesterday aiming for a rapidly closing gap between 2 approaching cars from different directions.
I've been trying to up the miles on my commute recently and now do between 7 and 9 instead of 5 in the morning, and 5 instead of 2.5 in the evenings.
Because I do this by just doing laps of Hyde Park, I've managed to set a new fastest average speed on my Brompton.
It hardly compares to a nice long ride on deserted country roads, but I managed 16.4 mph over a 7 mile route.
Not too bad for a 44 year old, 16-stone bloke on a sit-up-and-beg Brompton.
Because I do this by just doing laps of Hyde Park, I've managed to set a new fastest average speed on my Brompton.
It hardly compares to a nice long ride on deserted country roads, but I managed 16.4 mph over a 7 mile route.
Not too bad for a 44 year old, 16-stone bloke on a sit-up-and-beg Brompton.
Edited by Kell on Thursday 30th June 15:41
Couple of hundred meters of my normal route has been taken up for re-surfacing leaving that horrible scored concrete ready for re-tarmacing, I really don't like riding on it.
I've been quite lucky the last week or so, dry on the way in but soaking on the way home which I can deal with.
I've been quite lucky the last week or so, dry on the way in but soaking on the way home which I can deal with.
Matt_N said:
Couple of hundred meters of my normal route has been taken up for re-surfacing leaving that horrible scored concrete ready for re-tarmacing, I really don't like riding on it.
I've been quite lucky the last week or so, dry on the way in but soaking on the way home which I can deal with.
At least you get tarmac. All we get in Norfolk is kitty litter flytipped over a layer of tar. Making a pothole riddled road lose surfaced for a few weeks before the potholes reappear. I've been quite lucky the last week or so, dry on the way in but soaking on the way home which I can deal with.
Not the best of starts last night. Headwind. 
So I got my head down and on with it knowing that I'll have a three quarter tailwind for the last third of my commute.
Down the the bridge from the Darwin complex and I pushed my bike up to top gear, Lynn Road is a quarter mile straight with a nice sequence of bends at the end. Used to be a national speed limit but it's now a fifty. Still pelting along and there are some potholes I usually swerve to avoid ahead. I look over my shoulder and there's a Vauxhall Agila close enough to overtake by the time I get there so I carry on. Still close to flat out I skim the first pothole but as I hit the second my left hand was wrenched off the bar and I began to fall. I thought It's okay my chest will hit the handle bars and I'll catch this one. Then my back wheel flew out from under me and landed at a forty five degree angle to the front. That was it I was off and sliding along the road on my hands, left arm, left leg, chest and left hip.
Lucky I was going fast enough to slide if I rolled it would have been a lot worse. Also extremely lucky I slid to the left because I ended up on a driveway and the car behind managed to do an emergency stop twenty yards further up the road. If I had fallen into the middle of the road I would have been run over.
Before...
...after.
Reported it to 101 only to be told because I wasn't run over it doesn't count as in incident.
So I got my head down and on with it knowing that I'll have a three quarter tailwind for the last third of my commute.
Down the the bridge from the Darwin complex and I pushed my bike up to top gear, Lynn Road is a quarter mile straight with a nice sequence of bends at the end. Used to be a national speed limit but it's now a fifty. Still pelting along and there are some potholes I usually swerve to avoid ahead. I look over my shoulder and there's a Vauxhall Agila close enough to overtake by the time I get there so I carry on. Still close to flat out I skim the first pothole but as I hit the second my left hand was wrenched off the bar and I began to fall. I thought It's okay my chest will hit the handle bars and I'll catch this one. Then my back wheel flew out from under me and landed at a forty five degree angle to the front. That was it I was off and sliding along the road on my hands, left arm, left leg, chest and left hip.
Lucky I was going fast enough to slide if I rolled it would have been a lot worse. Also extremely lucky I slid to the left because I ended up on a driveway and the car behind managed to do an emergency stop twenty yards further up the road. If I had fallen into the middle of the road I would have been run over.
Before...
...after.
Reported it to 101 only to be told because I wasn't run over it doesn't count as in incident.
Took a more offroad route home yesterday, after 4 weeks off the bike with the weather we;ve had the trails have changed beyond recognition, most of my regular trails are too overgrown to ride through. Also I managed to get caught in one of the heavy showers we had yesterday, typically it stopped just as I got home.
Quickest commute for me this morning. Think my previous best was 36 min, managed 35.30 this morning. 10.5 miles into the centre of Southampton.
If I don't get improve on my 13th, and get into the top 10 at least on this segment I'll be annoyed https://www.strava.com/segments/9162934?filter=ove...
Will find out tonight
If I don't get improve on my 13th, and get into the top 10 at least on this segment I'll be annoyed https://www.strava.com/segments/9162934?filter=ove...
Will find out tonight
Edited by S10GTA on Monday 4th July 18:40
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