And today's commuting highlight is...

[tjlazer]

Last night I had a virtually traffic free run home and today the sun is shining, its reasonably warm and the traffic is light. I am measurably more happy today! Still can't think of a better bike to be on than the street triple. More power would be silly and the handling of my bike is just fantastic. I borrowed a new t100 bonnie on Monday and if I never ride one again it will be too soon. I really don't understand the appeal and having ridden one the mystery is even greater. Still I guess they look good and in the corners it was fairly nice...but no stop or go doesn't exactly imbue confidence.

[Angrybiker]

Yes, today's highlight - a UFO sighting!!!


No, really - it was big bright and round with a yellowy sort of colour, and significantly brightened up the sky for a short period. I think when it realised that I'd clocked it, it rapidly hid behind the clouds.

[sjtscott]

tjlazer said:

Last night I had a virtually traffic free run home and today the sun is shining, its reasonably warm and the traffic is light. I am measurably more happy today! Still can't think of a better bike to be on than the street triple. More power would be silly and the handling of my bike is just fantastic. I borrowed a new t100 bonnie on Monday and if I never ride one again it will be too soon. I really don't understand the appeal and having ridden one the mystery is even greater. Still I guess they look good and in the corners it was fairly nice...but no stop or go doesn't exactly imbue confidence.

Difference is i don't even need to ride one to know this lol

Edited by sjtscott on Thursday 2nd February 18:37

[Bailey93]

Angrybiker said:

Yes, today's highlight - a UFO sighting!!!


No, really - it was big bright and round with a yellowy sort of colour, and significantly brightened up the sky for a short period. I think when it realised that I'd clocked it, it rapidly hid behind the clouds.

Have you lined your helmet with tin foil for todays commute ?

[supercommuter]

Anyone got a big commute planned tonight? I am looking forward to getting blown around the M4 for 100 miles on the way home tonight

[sjtscott]

supercommuter said:

Anyone got a big commute planned tonight? I am looking forward to getting blown around the M4 for 100 miles on the way home tonight

Sadly no... just had my heating fixed this morning so I've spent the last two days working at home - commute is about as short as possible Next week off so back to the daily commute week on Monday.

[supercommuter]

sjtscott said:

supercommuter said:

Anyone got a big commute planned tonight? I am looking forward to getting blown around the M4 for 100 miles on the way home tonight

Sadly no... just had my heating fixed this morning so I've spent the last two days working at home - commute is about as short as possible Next week off so back to the daily commute week on Monday.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warnings/#?fcTime=1486080000&tab=warnings&regionName=se

Looks like I am getting blown by doris later...storm doris that is

[Sea Demon]

This mornings highlight - scooter ride on the Old Kent Road who had a big dolls head mounted to his top box facing you & when he broke, the eyes lit up red - looked like he was loving life too

[supercommuter]

Nice ride in to London this morning.

Then got a text from my neighbour saying that someone is trying to get in my garage. When confronted by my neighbour he has said that he was my friend and then ran off.

I took my R1 out yesterday and was sure that someone followed me back but drove off before I could confront him. I am not sat at my desk 120 miles away and can do nothing Arghhh!!!

[CAPP0]

Erm yes you can, get back on your commuter and go make sure the R1 is safe!

[supercommuter]

CAPP0 said:

Erm yes you can, get back on your commuter and go make sure the R1 is safe!

Garage is as safe as it is going to be locked up with my Neighbour curtain twitching. My mate is going over later to move my track transit up against the garage for the week until i can beef up security.

I didn't want to beef it up as I was trying to be stealthy and pretend nothing of value was in there. Now my act has been compromised it is going to get locked down like for knox

[cwis]

Locked my bike up this morning and noticed this:



Luckily it unlocked OK at lunch - beetled into town to get a new lock. I'll see if I can get a spare cut so I can reuse the other lock - no idea where the spare key is!

[CAPP0]

Yesterday evening's highlight was mildly amusing. Parked in the Minories car park, and if you know it, it has metal railings to separate off the bike parking. There are gaps to get in and out and they are big enough to get most quads through. But not big enough for a Z1000SX.....matey boy took two bites at lining his bike up, and then folded in his mirrors to get through, before flipping them out again once he had managed to squeeze through the 4ft gap. I loled.

Not quite sure how he's going to manage to filter, perhaps he's one of those who just sits in the traffic.

[SteelerSE]

Coming in on the M3 this morning - just at the start of the A316 - and on the far side of the road were the most police cars that I think I've seen in one place. The entire west bound carriageway was closed and they were turning people away at the roundabout - this would be about 6.15am this morning. There was nothing on Absolute radio traffic which seemed a bit weird as an entire carriageway was shut. Does anyone know what happened?

[SteelerSE]

Maybe this, though there's no date on the report:

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/sunbur...

[kiethton]

The commute has been going a lot better as of late, finally getting used to the bike!

The key change to improve my confidence was fixing the tyre pressures and inflating them to where they were meant to be - a key cause of the 2mph low side the other week I'm in no doubt.

I now need to monitor them pretty closely, the front had dropped to ~16psi and the rear to ~20psi, about half of where they should be!

That was measured on a Sainsburys petrol station pump though - going to try and find my manual foot pump to monitor closely.

[happyWanderer]

Got pulled over this morning....

'I dont mind you passing me, but when you rocket off into the distance thats not on.'

Wasn't doing anything stupid, but then Im not gonna argue with a copper that was clearly looking to get someone done this morning...

So filtering at a reasonable pace and getting of the lights quicker than a snail pace seems to be classified as 'rocketing off'

No ticket thankfully...

[black-k1]

happyWanderer said:

... No ticket thankfully...

The only think that's really important. The rest is a pain, I know, but forget it and move on. (Although don't move on too quickly, you might get pulled again!!!)

[E36GUY]

kiethton said:

The commute has been going a lot better as of late, finally getting used to the bike!

The key change to improve my confidence was fixing the tyre pressures and inflating them to where they were meant to be - a key cause of the 2mph low side the other week I'm in no doubt.

I now need to monitor them pretty closely, the front had dropped to ~16psi and the rear to ~20psi, about half of where they should be!

That was measured on a Sainsburys petrol station pump though - going to try and find my manual foot pump to monitor closely.

Get one of these or somesuch like it. Don't rely on a foot-pump gauge.

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/Tyre-Pressure-Gauge-w...

[kiethton]

E36GUY said:

Get one of these or somesuch like it. Don't rely on a foot-pump gauge.

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/Tyre-Pressure-Gauge-w...

Thanks, done