The daily "I cycled to work" thread (Vol 2)

[Steve vRS]

Stopped on my way home to repair someone's chain last night. The top jockey wheel on his mech has snapped off so I used my chain breaker to shorten his chain so he rode home on a single speed.

[AC43]

GrantD5 said:

Really getting sick of single speed riders in flip flops jumping red lights.

London for you.

London in the summer does bring out all the RLJ's unfortunately.

[louiebaby]

Steve vRS said:

Stopped on my way home to repair someone's chain last night. The top jockey wheel on his mech has snapped off so I used my chain breaker to shorten his chain so he rode home on a single speed.

I recognise that fix. I seem to recall it making the Hellfire Pass "tricky".

[S10GTA]

Might as well have swam this morning, I was so wet when I arrived. Had a shower, dried myself, dripping within 30 seconds!

[aclivity]

First ride in since I was hit by a car. Noticed couple of things:

1. WHERE HAVE MY LEGS GONE? These ones can't be mine, they are useless!
2. It's a bit warm out there!

[louiebaby]

AC43 said:

London in the summer does bring out all the RLJ's unfortunately.

The "scenery" improves in the summer though...

I sometimes (but not often) miss London.

[Steve vRS]

louiebaby said:

Steve vRS said:

Stopped on my way home to repair someone's chain last night. The top jockey wheel on his mech has snapped off so I used my chain breaker to shorten his chain so he rode home on a single speed.

I recognise that fix. I seem to recall it making the Hellfire Pass "tricky".

I still smile when on the flat with a tail wind you were complaining that your cadence was double your heart rate.

[timnoyce]

https://www.strava.com/activities/1044402505

Home yesterday was HOT. Should have stopped for a bidon refill but just wanted to get home and eat pizza.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1045179563

Ride in this morning was excellent... powered by pizza!

[AC43]

Fricking hot on the way in. Took a while to get going. Fairly amazed that I got another 6 PB's and 11 2nd's/3rd's.

Going to do it tomorrow and Thursday.

Great to be able to dodge the tubes.

[AC43]

timnoyce said:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1044402505

Home yesterday was HOT. Should have stopped for a bidon refill but just wanted to get home and eat pizza.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1045179563

Ride in this morning was excellent... powered by pizza!

F*** me you're covering some distance.

[timnoyce]

AC43 said:

F*** me you're covering some distance.

Had a few weeks off with holidays and stuff so trying to cram a bit in before the Dartmoor Classic on the 2nd.

[louiebaby]

timnoyce said:

Had a few weeks off with holidays and stuff so trying to cram a bit in before the Dartmoor Classic on the 2nd.

See you there!



(I might be doing it on a Brompton, if my mate calls my bluff and turns up on his.)

[timnoyce]

Have you done it before? The epic route on a Brompton is ballsy!

[louiebaby]

timnoyce said:

Have you done it before? The epic route on a Brompton is ballsy!

Did the full route in 2014, and squeaked in for a "Gold" medal. It's a nice day out!

[timnoyce]

Oh good stuff. I rode it last year and was happy to get around (first ride I did over 100miles and certainly the hilliiest at that point!) I've done bigger and greater things since so am hoping to be less tentative and faster. We shall see what happens on the day!

[AC43]

Absolutely battered it on the way home.

Only, less than a mile in, tried to see who'd called me and turned Strava off.

AAAARRRRGH!

:-)

[timnoyce]

Longest day today, so I thought I'd get up to see the sun come up.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1046869414

[sisyphal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTRN9wBHHw

Left the house in a good mood, within half a mile was a whisker away from a collision.

Is banging on people's windows a dick move? Or do some drivers need waking up? When things like that happen I get enraged for a few seconds, but then wish I'd kept it together, ignored it and carried on.

[yellowjack]

sisyphal said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMTRN9wBHHw

Left the house in a good mood, within half a mile was a whisker away from a collision.

Is banging on people's windows a dick move? Or do some drivers need waking up? When things like that happen I get enraged for a few seconds, but then wish I'd kept it together, ignored it and carried on.

"Did you not see me either, and think about slowing down?" What a stupid cow. If'n she did that to me she'd have probably been looking for a new mirror to be honest. What if you'd been closer, and unable to slow down in time? You might have ended up under her car, and she'd probably still not have noticed, and driven off leaving you there.

I absolutely detest this idiocy. NO-ONE should be reversing off a driveway into a road. It's basics, and (at least when I learned) was covered during instruction. "Always reverse from a major road into a minor one, NOT the other way around". The concept is the same for driveways. Any bks about it being "easier" is exactly that - bks. Because if you're going to have to reverse in one direction or the other, then it's ALWAYS going to be both "easier" and safer to drive forwards onto the road from a driveway because you have better observation opportunities, and don't need to stop in the middle of the road to faff around changing direction of travel.

And before anyone chunters about the mirror comment at the start of this post? I had a FAR closer call with a VW Golf reversing completely blind off a patch of grass on a bend. I literally HAD to slap his rear window to stop him running me over, in order to physically push myself away from his car. The tt then took exception and a few hundred yards up the road deliberately forced me into a ditch. Despite witnesses backing my story and able to describe him to police, along with the number of the house he came out of, the householder lied to police and claimed not to know the individual. Apparently they visited to quote for a driveway, and they didn't actually know the driver's name. So don't anyone go expecting me to try the 'softly softly' polite approach for incidents like this, because it ain't going to happen. Tapping on the window and a polite exchange? She'll foget that and do the exact same thing day after day after day, and never learn from it. If she's needing to buy a new door mirror every time she fks up, she might actually put two and two together eventually and start reversing ONTO the driveway instead...




...and breathe!

[dave0010]

Didn't go over tram lines at enough of a angle, front wheel got caught and I hit the deck. Was at low speeds but my knee and also my pride took a pretty heavy hit