And today's commuting highlight is...
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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
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
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.
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.
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.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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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