And today's commuting highlight is...

And today's commuting highlight is...

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sjtscott

4,215 posts

230 months

Friday 6th May 2016
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EagleMoto4-2 said:
I bet the Police biker would have got involved if you knocked over one of the cyclists jumping the lights!
Of course.. but obviously with me being in the wrong rather than the red light jumper!

CAPP0

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19,530 posts

202 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Today's commuting highlight was coming to work on the train due to a "company function" this evening.

Aaaaargh. If I ever even hint at commuting by train, ever again, please kill me. Dead. With fire.

Fleegle

16,688 posts

175 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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I will be on the train next week.

Cons - It will be hot and sweaty

Pro's - I can have a good perv on the way home

CAPP0

Original Poster:

19,530 posts

202 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Fleegle said:
I will be on the train next week.

Cons - It will be hot and sweaty

Pro's - I can have a good perv on the way home
And slow.

And late.

And packed. No, rammed.

And smelly.

And uncomfortable.

And boring.

And take 2.5 times as long as the bike.

And And And.

mitzy

13,857 posts

196 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Fleegle said:
Pro's - I can have a good perv on the way home
Shakes head

Wedg1e

26,760 posts

264 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Perv? I was recently on a course at Coventry Uni and as I was staying in a Premier Inn on the opposite side of the town centre I had to wade chest-deep through young clunge... admittedly a lot of it of foreign extraction but any short skirt has much the same effect on one my age... whistle

creampuff

6,511 posts

142 months

Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Wedg1e said:
admittedly a lot of it of foreign extraction but any short skirt has much the same effect on one my age... whistle
Yes I know what you mean, I need to go to the chemist for a new box of Tena for men as well wink

Fleegle

16,688 posts

175 months

Wednesday 18th May 2016
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Todays highlight was watching 2 cyclists collide and get tangled up. One whizzing up the outside, one up the inside and both wanted the same space just beyond the puff box.

One on the deck but no life threatening injuries (maybe a grazed knee)


All to the merriment of the queue of traffic outside Tooting Bec station




PS - one of the cyclists was wearing red. My theory is starting to prove correct

CAPP0

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19,530 posts

202 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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Well, today's commuting highlight was/is: choosing today, of all days, to book my car in for service in Charlton. Meaning I didn't use the bike (obviously). On the day the northbound Blackwall Tunnel was closed to all traffic, and remains so.

I sat in the middle of Woolwich this morning (where you can't turn around due to dual carriageway) for 70 minutes and moved less than 200 yards.

Best bit? I have to go and pick the car up again this afternoon. I think I'll sell it and buy more bikes.


Fleegle

16,688 posts

175 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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2 days in of using van/public transport.


Me not likey

Renn Sport

2,761 posts

208 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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Mine was watching in horror as this knob on z1000 zooms through a set of lights on Amber going green almost collecting this poor 4 year old and his horrified parent on Clapham common. Made me cringe…

keebz91

241 posts

141 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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I've been getting a lift with colleagues for the past 3 weeks due to having a busted ankle. Now that's hard work!!!

sjtscott

4,215 posts

230 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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anonymous said:
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Just got an email from TFL, fuel and hydraulic fluid 3/4 of the length of the northbound tunnel hence closed still for safety reasons. I live near the tunnel but on the northside. Generally I suffer when the southbound tunnel has an issue in the evenings in that every single road in the area from around tower bridge northside or bermondey/jamica road south of the river eastwards is gridlocked like the other week when they closed the highway. Basically no bike you're not going anywhere full stop for a while.

Tribal Chestnut

2,997 posts

181 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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Renn Sport said:
Mine was watching in horror as this knob on z1000 zooms through a set of lights on Amber going green almost collecting this poor 4 year old and his horrified parent on Clapham common. Made me cringe…
Biker should maybe have waited, but that's piss poor parenting. This is London, not bloody Trumpton.

I had a flat so returned home after 2 miles so I could catch the lovely train. This is why I have two (road) bikes, and also why I should make sure that they both work. wker.


Edited by Tribal Chestnut on Tuesday 24th May 23:30

CAPP0

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19,530 posts

202 months

Tuesday 24th May 2016
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anonymous said:
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Journey home was just as bad. All roads were gridlocked, esp side roads. The tunnel wax still closed an hour or two back, I can't work out whether it still is or not. I'm told it was a crane which dropped the oil. There's talk of a bike going down on the oil but conflicting stories abound.

Back on the bike early tomorrow.

black-k1

11,887 posts

228 months

Wednesday 25th May 2016
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CAPP0 said:
anonymous said:
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Journey home was just as bad. All roads were gridlocked, esp side roads. The tunnel wax still closed an hour or two back, I can't work out whether it still is or not. I'm told it was a crane which dropped the oil. There's talk of a bike going down on the oil but conflicting stories abound.

Back on the bike early tomorrow.
That explains it! I cross the river at London Bridge then join the A12 at Wick Rd. It was so clear and easy yesterday with traffic moving at (or possibly above!!!) the speed limit the whole way up the A12 that I got home 15 minutes early! Sounds like I’ll need to drop some more fuel and hydraulic fluid in the north bound tunnel. smile

smack

9,727 posts

190 months

Wednesday 25th May 2016
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An Aussie registered bike around the M25 this morning with s pillion. It looked like they were on some epic bike tour from the state of the bike (in the slow lane so didn't get a good look at what bike it was - might have been a postie bike), and had blue and White reg plates which probably makes it Vic reg

CAPP0

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19,530 posts

202 months

Wednesday 25th May 2016
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I had a commuting lowlight today. Came up behind a cruiser of some sort ridden by a lady with lots & lots of flowing red locks all billowing out from under her hat. I'm a sucker for long hair, so I was happy....until I caught her up, when I saw that her muffin midriff was making a break for freedom from between the back of her jacket and trousers, exposing far too much ice-white, stretchmarked skin. 'Twasn't nice.

sjtscott

4,215 posts

230 months

Thursday 2nd June 2016
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So its half term and there should be less traffic about - however for me coming West from Canary Wharf to central London Jamica Road/Bermondsey is well and truely f**ked this week due to temp lights at the cross roads just after the tube station.

So I've rediverted back to north of the river to find wow they've actually finished the new cycle superhighway between tower hill and southwalk bridge where I cross the thames. Coming west in the morning towards central london is very nice again with 2 lanes and is easy to filter still and esp this week with it being half term.

However whatever idiot decided a single narrow lane of traffic heading east up to the lights at tower hill was a good idea needs shooting. If there is a truck/coach/bus ahead there is simply no space in the lane to filter through. Meanwhile to your left is a huge expanse of raised central reservation between the traffic and the new cycle lane! FFS. If they reduced that by half there would still be plenty of segregation and yet all the powered two wheelers would have enough space to safely filter past the line of 4 wheeled stuff.
This after TFL published a document last year for road planners to consider how to make roads better for motorcyclists in particular. No suprise there is a lack of joined up thinking.
Wondering who the first criminal will be to make use of the beautiful wide cycle superhighway on a motorbike to outrun any police following in a car.. its only a matter of time.

308mate

13,757 posts

221 months

Thursday 2nd June 2016
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sjtscott said:
So its half term and there should be less traffic about - however for me coming West from Canary Wharf to central London Jamica Road/Bermondsey is well and truely f**ked this week due to temp lights at the cross roads just after the tube station.

So I've rediverted back to north of the river to find wow they've actually finished the new cycle superhighway between tower hill and southwalk bridge where I cross the thames. Coming west in the morning towards central london is very nice again with 2 lanes and is easy to filter still and esp this week with it being half term.

However whatever idiot decided a single narrow lane of traffic heading east up to the lights at tower hill was a good idea needs shooting. If there is a truck/coach/bus ahead there is simply no space in the lane to filter through. Meanwhile to your left is a huge expanse of raised central reservation between the traffic and the new cycle lane! FFS. If they reduced that by half there would still be plenty of segregation and yet all the powered two wheelers would have enough space to safely filter past the line of 4 wheeled stuff.
This after TFL published a document last year for road planners to consider how to make roads better for motorcyclists in particular. No suprise there is a lack of joined up thinking.
Wondering who the first criminal will be to make use of the beautiful wide cycle superhighway on a motorbike to outrun any police following in a car.. its only a matter of time.
I work directly over the top of that section of road. It only needs another foot and a half on the eastbound carriageway and everyone would be happy. Instead, its a fking nightmare. Not a single thought was given to motorbikes in that design, whilst the cyclists have the equivalent of Bruntingthorpe on the other side of the kerb. tts.