How was your cycle commute?

[joustmaster]

Details about the biro thing, please! Just bought a Kryptonite lock the other week/month!

It was only with one of the old models, many years ago..
I think it effected locks with keys like this

 

[Onket]

It was only with one of the old models, many years ago..
I think it effected locks with keys like this

I've got a lock with a key like that actually, but I have recently replaced it cos it seized up.

 

[gentlegreen]

I lubed mine recently - it's now perhaps too loose ...

 

[Part 2]

Only my third commute this year today. The legs seem to be taking longer to get warmed up, I was knackered by the time I got home, although I did have a pretty heavy weekend.

 

[Orang Utan]

Cycled home through marshland and concrete dystopia and saw foxes, ponies, rabbits and thousands of birds sitting on the Thames in the sunset

 

[gentlegreen]

Any toads ?
There used to always be toads by this time on the local railway path - there were even people out at night on the nearby road helping them cross - but not for years now.

I've just emailed a local amphibian group to ask why.
It's struck me that I've been cycling up and down the whole 14 miles of the path over the past couple of years and haven't seen any sign - in spite of there being lots of ditches.

 

[a_chap]

Lovely quiet roads today - and still light on the way home too - but riding upright with two arms is a damn sight more painful than riding a recumbent one-handed...

 

[stavros]

Lovely quiet roads today - and still light on the way home too - but riding upright with two arms is a damn sight more painful than riding a recumbent one-handed...

Half term?

 

[a_chap]

Yes, half term.

 

[tbtommyb]

Had a right wanker in a white van in Brixton yesterday. Don't even know what I did to piss him off.

 

[TitanSound]

Had a right wanker in a white van in Brixton yesterday. Don't even know what I did to piss him off.

You were riding a bike. Enough to set most of them of.

 

[Orang Utan]

Very foggy, this morning and my glasses were filthy so I couldn't see a thing. Plus I realised my back light was switched off all the way here

 

[colacubes]

Got hit by a red light runner on Sunday in Lewisham Fortunately no damage done to me, him, his car or my bike. The worst thing about it was that rather than apologise, he just sort of shrugged and pointed as his (I assume) wife and kid jumped out of the car to go into the shop there Cos that justifies it somehow I was so shocked I didn't even have the wherewithal to call him a wanker

 

[Biddlybee]

Very foggy this morning, but had lifted by the time I got to work

I thought you meant another cyclist nipsla, but a car glad you're ok, can't believe people shrug things like that off.

 

[pissflaps]

d-lock his fucking mirrors off next time.

 

[Biddlybee]

yeh that'd go well.

 

[colacubes]

Very foggy this morning, but had lifted by the time I got to work

I thought you meant another cyclist nipsla, but a car glad you're ok, can't believe people shrug things like that off.

Nope a car

d-lock his fucking mirrors off next time.

Tempting, but by the time I'd have rooted around in the bag in my basket to find it underneath all the other crap I carry with me I fear the moment of spontaneous anger may have disappeared

 

[colacubes]

DP

 

[pissflaps]

done it before and i will do it again. You put my life at risk because you can't be arsed to pilot a ton of speeding metal down the road with the necessary care and attention - you're picking bits of your car up off the road.

 

[Orang Utan]

That's a stupid thing to do, pissflaps. Grow up.

 

[Onket]

Closest I've got was demanding a bloke 'get the fuck out of the car' or something. I posted about it at the time. My d-lock is locked to my frame- quite lucky, as I was so angry I'm not sure what I'd have done.

Anyway, glad you're ok nipsla.

Frosty cold this morning for me.

 

[Onket]

That's a stupid thing to do, pissflaps. Grow up.

There's a time and a place, tbf. One size doesn't fit all.

 

[pissflaps]

is it? Fortunately for me i couldn't give a rats cock what you think. Frankly i think some damage to your car is a small price to pay for causing someone injury or worse. Teeth cost a lot more to fix.

 

[Onket]

For the record- I am disagreeing with Orang Utan, not you.

 

[joustmaster]

I've taken a wing mirror off before.
Normally if some one tries to kill me and it's an accident, i will be fairly calm. Helped by the fact the driver realises they have made a mistake.
But sometimes you get the kind of wankers who, when they realise they are in the wrong, will decide that it's actually the cyclists fault. And as pissflaps says, they are going to end up picking bits of their car up from the road.

 

[pissflaps]

^ yup. i'm not suggesting we all go out and start demolishing every car that passes a bit close or does a cheeky lane change. I'm referring specifically to drivers who's actions are blatantly/intentionally dangerous and are unrepentant/rude when challenged.

the same applies to cyclists as well in some cases. tho d-locking someone in the chops should only really be considered in the most extreme of circumstances.

 

[Orang Utan]

is it? Fortunately for me i couldn't give a rats cock what you think. Frankly i think some damage to your car is a small price to pay for causing someone injury or worse. Teeth cost a lot more to fix.

I think you are making life more dangerous for the rest of us by those sorts of action.

 

[Biddlybee]

the fact that the car could probably catch up with me pretty quickly, and do more damage to me - and I'm slightly smaller than someone like jousty - puts me off enough.

 

[Orang Utan]

There's a time and a place, tbf. One size doesn't fit all.

There is never an adult excuse for deliberately smashing someone's wing mirror. It just polarises road users even more. That's not a move in the right direction.

 

[gentlegreen]

Fit a horn.

My handlebar camera is also a way to get back at miscreants in a more satisfying way - though I'm clearly not tagging my videos well enough because the only response I've had so far was from a commercial driver.