How was your cycle commute?

[TitanSound]

Bloody hell

What happened? (besides the obvious bike crushing)

 

[plurker]

When Gaz tweeted that vid he got a response on twitter from a girl who also stopped to check you were ok - might be worth looking at mentions of @cyclegaz to get in touch with her in case she saw owt.

And as joustmaster say get in touch with the bus co ASAP, all buses have a cctv that faces from cab out to front door, so will prob grab windscreen view...

 

[pissflaps]

yarp, i've requested the CCTV footage in the snotty letter i sent to ARRIVA busses. I was changing lanes (having looked, signalled, looked again) and yer man there didn't bother to slow down. Classic SMIDSY. hey ho, i just want my repairs covered.

 

[pissflaps]

^ ooh cheers for the youtube pro-tip, i'll get on it.

 

[Onket]

Good luck. Glad you're not hurt.

 

[pissflaps]

cheers. Few minor scrapes and bruises. Nothing more than what you'd wake up with after a night out on the sauce.

 

[joustmaster]

cheers. Few minor scrapes and bruises. Nothing more than what you'd wake up with after a night out on the sauce.

And excellent way of looking at it!
Good luck getting something from the bus bastards.

 

[joustmaster]

I cycled in this morning at about half 9.

It was snowing. I was in shorts. I felt like some demented Victorian adventurer.
Until I stopped at some traffic lights next to a guy who didn't even have gloves on.

I have long eyelashes, and they where getting clogged up with snow and starting to stick together. I had to keep stretching my eyes wide open to free them up.

 

[Onket]

I coasted down Tulse Hill with one hand on the brake & the other over my eyes trying to stop the snow going into them.

 

[a_chap]

Not much snow cycling into work at 8am but quite a bit since then. The office was closed at about 11am - cue everyone fleeing to the car park and then total gridlock. I watched people sitting in cars, not moving, for about an hour as I sipped hot drinks and - shock, horror - actually did some work.

But by the time I decided to leave the roads had frozen over and are now fucking lethal

I think I just aged ten years coming home.

 

[gentlegreen]

Apparently you can get studded tyres in recumbent sizes :-

 

[Itziko]

Fresh from my Facebook wall...

 

[gentlegreen]

Perfect

 

[Onket]

Fresh from my Facebook wall...

We've all been there.

 

[a_chap]

I haven't but I must try it

 

[Onket]

Generally you fall off or nearly fall off. Not ideal.

 

[ddraig]

ahem
i gouged a fair chunk out of my hand by veering too close to Cardiff castle on way home on bike one night
well hurt even tho i was wasted

 

[Onket]

Ouch!

 

[The Boy]

ahem
i gouged a fair chunk out of my hand by veering too close to Cardiff castle on way home on bike one night
well hurt even tho i was wasted

I nearly drowned in the water of Leith once . I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[a_chap]

I've been on a few pub crawls by bike. Sort of the same thing isn't it?

 

[gentlegreen]

Walked the 4 miles today.
I don't do ice - even in a car - though the main roads were OK - and the two buses each way was definitely not an option.
People are so fecking lazy in this country. It takes 10 minutes to sweep the pavement outside your house.
Thankfully at least half my walking route is off-road (sorry grass).
My obesity wasn't an issue until the final half mile which is 15 percent. It also was the point where my legs started to hurt - wrong muscles.

Let's hope we get rain today and not snow and ice so it can be back to normal tomorrow.

 

[ddraig]

went a different way and stuck to main roads and avoiding the pedestrian areas
bit hairy in the 3 lanes of traffic but drivers seemed to be more patient and waiting for me to pass before pulling out etc
only 1 taxi driver parked up in a cylce lane
took my time and made it with no further injury

 

[gentlegreen]

I used to be more adventurous when I was younger.
I can remember when I was about 21, taking the legshield off my Honda 50 so I could ride in the ruts, and then a couple of years later having problems driving my 3-wheel car ...

 

[plurker]

streatham - farringdon ride in took me 5 mins longer than normal as my road, and the road my office is on, haven't been salted so i dismounted and walked. People who live near me and came in on the train had a 90+ minute sardine-a-thon #smug

 

[Onket]

Left my front light on my desk at work on Friday so had to cycle without it home on Friday & again to the station this morning. Roads very, very quiet for both trips so luckily it was ok. I leave the back light on the bike cos it's so old I don't think anyone will want to nick it, so at least I had that.

Very cold and icy again today.

 

[a_chap]

Roads nothing like as lethal as they had been on Friday.

However, and to be on the safe side, I took a detour away from the quiet, ungritted parts of my route onto the longer 70MPH dual carriageway instead.

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[gentlegreen]

Ouch !

Cycling has really fecked me up for walking.
3 MPH.

It's the same when I go swimming for the first time.

Really bad boots, but all the same ...

 

[stavros]

Cycling has really fecked me up for walking.
3 MPH.

I remember Lance Armstrong saying he struggled training for the NY Marathon the year after he retired for the first time because "running used different muscles". I'm sure if he'd asked his chemist would've had something for that.

 

[gentlegreen]

Someone said today that the Olympic cyclists were the only athletes allowed to get around the site on bikes ?