And today's commuting highlight is...
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Nothing bad (so far, still got ot get home!) just me looking like a bit of a plonker: I have to negotiate about 3 miles of pretty much single track country lanes before getting to the A3 to head into London. I tend to leave anywhere between 6.30 and 7am. Problem is, if it's sunny, at certain points on those lanes I get dazzled by the conbination of low sun and shadowy road to the point where I've nearly ridden straight into the bonnet of a stationary car (they saw me and stopped on one side, but I couldn't see them).
Normally I try to hold a hand up to block the sun, but today I discovered that if I dropped my chin virtually on the tank and made like I was going for a Vmax run, I could just keep low enough that the hedges blocked the sun and I could see. However, 10 seconds into doing this today I encountered a car who basically saw a rider fully tucked in something like this....
....resolutely trundling down the road at 15mph trying to stay off the gravelly bit on the middle and keep out of the hedgerow. Must have thought I was some sort of loony and sods law says it was one of our neighbours
Normally I try to hold a hand up to block the sun, but today I discovered that if I dropped my chin virtually on the tank and made like I was going for a Vmax run, I could just keep low enough that the hedges blocked the sun and I could see. However, 10 seconds into doing this today I encountered a car who basically saw a rider fully tucked in something like this....
....resolutely trundling down the road at 15mph trying to stay off the gravelly bit on the middle and keep out of the hedgerow. Must have thought I was some sort of loony and sods law says it was one of our neighbours
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day! 
black-k1 said:
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day!
Exactly I have contribution...
Filtering between a bus on the left and pickup and the Bus driver starts to move over with me in the middle. didn't check his mirror and didn't indicate.
20 meters late a merc is stationary straddling both lanes and indicating left to obviously go into the left lane. Traffic starts moving I go around him on the right a the nitwit decides he wants to proceed but in the right hand lane again, which I am in as I ride past. Still indicating left I may add. :I
Now I have made it to Norbury.. I f
kwit in a banged up corolla is indicating left and starts moving toward the junction on the left. I start to filter past on the right and the decides to dart to the right and take the right hand junction. Drives me into the oncoming lane!! I am full on the horn.
Anyway after braking really hard I come back around the bastid and punch his screen! I have no idea why but I really should have stopped to lay one on him.
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Filtering between a bus on the left and pickup and the Bus driver starts to move over with me in the middle. didn't check his mirror and didn't indicate.
20 meters late a merc is stationary straddling both lanes and indicating left to obviously go into the left lane. Traffic starts moving I go around him on the right a the nitwit decides he wants to proceed but in the right hand lane again, which I am in as I ride past. Still indicating left I may add. :I
Now I have made it to Norbury.. I f
kwit in a banged up corolla is indicating left and starts moving toward the junction on the left. I start to filter past on the right and the decides to dart to the right and take the right hand junction. Drives me into the oncoming lane!! I am full on the horn.Anyway after braking really hard I come back around the bastid and punch his screen! I have no idea why but I really should have stopped to lay one on him.
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ker308mate said:
tom_e said:
308mate said:
A very angry in a Toyota Aygo literally trying to kill me.
Small car syndrome? in a Toyota Aygo literally trying to kill me. Glad your ok
mitzy said:
308mate said:
tom_e said:
308mate said:
A very angry in a Toyota Aygo literally trying to kill me.
Small car syndrome? in a Toyota Aygo literally trying to kill me. Glad your ok
tty roads was me flashing my headlights at him black-k1 said:
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day!
Oh god - I almost forgot its back to school tomorrow. I can't wait for all the school run mums - possibly the poorest/most dangerous driving you are likely to see/survive....supercommuter said:
J B L said:
I swear I'd fail a drug test if I was tested just after my commute on the M25. Filtering through vans is like walking into an Amsterdam coffee shop.
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Yep - I notice this!Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Biker 1 said:
black-k1 said:
Sadly, I think today will be the last "commuting highlight" for some time. I expect the traffic next week will be back to normal levels so it's goodbye to a reasonably quick and easy ride in/home! I will make sure I make the most of the relatively clear roads on the ride home this PM, especially as it’s POETS day!
Oh god - I almost forgot its back to school tomorrow. I can't wait for all the school run mums - possibly the poorest/most dangerous driving you are likely to see/survive....Schools in my part of London were back in late last week but its a bit random nowadays.
lindrup119 said:
supercommuter said:
J B L said:
I swear I'd fail a drug test if I was tested just after my commute on the M25. Filtering through vans is like walking into an Amsterdam coffee shop.
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Yep - I notice this!Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Andy XRV said:
lindrup119 said:
supercommuter said:
J B L said:
I swear I'd fail a drug test if I was tested just after my commute on the M25. Filtering through vans is like walking into an Amsterdam coffee shop.
Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
Yep - I notice this!Whilst a slight exaggeration, the smell of weed is very present in stationnary traffic in the morning.
This morning's highlight was being overtaken at warp speed by the P&O cruise ship Britannia on the A20. And there was me thinking the RT was a touch lardy for commuting. This thing made my bike look like a mini moto. Fair play to the rider, he was riding it like it was a KTM 250 EXC.
It looked exactly like this:
It looked exactly like this:
CAPP0 said:
This morning's highlight was being overtaken at warp speed by the P&O cruise ship Britannia on the A20. And there was me thinking the RT was a touch lardy for commuting. This thing made my bike look like a mini moto. Fair play to the rider, he was riding it like it was a KTM 250 EXC.
It looked exactly like this:
You need to man up It looked exactly like this:
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