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How was your cycle commute?

stavros said:
Very short this morning, at about 5 miles. I'd only planned to make it that long, but I seriously misjudged the temperature at 8.30am and didn't wear my winter gloves. Feeling in my fingers was minimal in the latter stages, with great pain as it came back on arriving home.
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I'm with gentlegreen in that even in the height of summer, I always wear gloves - Them fingerless ones anyway at least. There are few things more painful than your hands being so cold they actually hurt. Nearly as bad as your ears.
 
Oh I always where fingerless ones, and I'm always surprised when I see pros, both on the road and the track, not wearing them, because the handle bars are not that comfortable against your palms. I learned from my error though today and wore my winter gloves, although that meant I had quite sweaty hands when I got back.
 
I haz a new wheel - and tyre, and sprockets and chain. :)

It's the first time I changed just the front middle (38 tooth) cog, so time to finally work out what to do with all the spare cogs I've bought over the years.
In my defence, a complete crankset costs about as much as two middle cogs.
I suspect I have a lifetime's supply of big cogs - presumably the small ones only have an extra 6 months left on them ?

So I need to learn about measuring and rotating and filing.
 
I'm lucky in that my eyesight is just about good enough without glasses for cycling - though I have to be careful when I overtake.
 
Orang Utan said:
Cycled home half blind in this wet weather. It's not much fun being a speccy twat in these conditions
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Get your eyes lasered. I did. It's incredible. Go in half blind (my eyesight was attrocious) half an hour later walk out being able to see almost perfectly. :)
 
Do people really have problems affording batteries - or better still, rechargeable lights ?

I encountered at least one unlit idiot with a front light that was actually switched off on the dimly-lit railway path ... and there are always one or two with batteries so flat they're almost invisible - plus the odd green flashing one..

I think the reason I object to unlit almost as much as over-lit cyclists on the path is that they don't help with lighting up the unlit pedestrians ...I think I can legitimately be pissed-off when they cross the centre line to overtake them ...

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I know I really shouldn't be overtaking at all - but it's a bit irksome not to be able to work up a reasonable sweat on the way home.

I always strobe my big light when I'm committing to an overtake.
 
gentlegreen said:
Do people really have problems affording batteries - or better still, rechargeable lights ?

I encountered at least one unlit idiot with a front light that was actually switched off on the dimly-lit railway path ... and there are always one or two with batteries so flat they're almost invisible - plus the odd green flashing one..

I think the reason I object to unlit almost as much as over-lit cyclists on the path is that they don't help with lighting up the unlit pedestrians ...I think I can legitimately be pissed-off when they cross the centre line to overtake them ...

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I know I really shouldn't be overtaking at all - but it's a bit irksome not to be able to work up a reasonable sweat on the way home.

I always strobe my big light when I'm committing to an overtake.
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Thanks for the reminder.. Its time for the yearly change of the AA batteries.
 
I admit that reading of his death (famous in my field of work) made me even sadder than normal for "unknown" folk. Perhaps it's related to the "could have been me" thoughts rather than thinking it could habe been some of the reckless idiots you do see cycling. .:(:(:(
 
Pedestrians are being all kinds of unsafe now it's dark. Properly hit someone and came off today, for the first time ever :( Thank fuck I was in the Bloomsbury two-way segregated cycle lanes (not often I thank fuck for it :D) as if I'd been in the road I'd have been knocked under a cab.
 
Rebelda said:
Pedestrians are being all kinds of unsafe now it's dark. Properly hit someone and came off today, for the first time ever :( Thank fuck I was in the Bloomsbury two-way segregated cycle lanes (not often I thank fuck for it :D) as if I'd been in the road I'd have been knocked under a cab.
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oooh.. ouch Rebelda - hope you're ok - it's scary when something like that happens.
 
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