How was your cycle commute?

[Orang Utan]

It's a got a brand on it! Nooooooo

 

[The Boy]

that is awesome! And i maintain that you are David O'Docherty and i claim my £5.

I had to google who that is so I'm probably not he, but I've been called worse .

 

[The Boy]

It's a got a brand on it! Nooooooo

If I'd turned the peak up then it would have been a defunct brand on show. Therefore cool and hip and groovy.

 

[The Boy]

Anyway, in proper cycling commute news, I bought lycra tights and new padded shorts which arrived yesterday. And I've cancelled my gym membership. So I'm back on the bike as of next week - even if only days off at first.

 

[Orang Utan]

If I'd turned the peak up then it would have been a defunct brand on show. Therefore cool and hip and groovy.

But it would have remained a yucky cycling cap.

 

[Ted Striker]

There is an art to the cap though - I haven't got it, and always put in on in the 'normal' fashion, though having it rightforward and a bit looser on the back/top is instant 'knows their shit' stuff. I think it got lost with making helmets mandatory. Lance for all his shitcuntery knew how to wear a cap. (looking for pics..)

I mean I don't think about it too much though, mind....

 

[Ted Striker]

Not to mention the guy who did more for cycling caps than any cyclist: Sidney Deane.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's the peak wot puts me off. And the tightness.

 

[Rebelda]

Feel free to spam the thread with pics. I could look at people in cycling caps all day.

 

[Ted Striker]

(Can't find the pic of Lance (was thinking when he wears Ullrich's hat one stage??)

This is how it's done

Or...Whallop

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Not to mention the guy who did more for cycling caps than any cyclist: Sidney Deane.

and

 

[The Boy]

Bingo.

Double bingo.

 

[weepiper]

caps always make me think of couriers, or one courier in particular:

 

[Onket]

Almost as ghastly as baseball caps

But it would have remained a yucky cycling cap.

Do people really use the words 'ghastly' and 'yucky'?!

 

[Orang Utan]

Do people really use the words 'ghastly' and 'yucky'?!

i just did, silly sausage

 

[Onket]

As discussed earlier on the thread, the jury is still out about you.

 

[Crispy]

What are the best and worst bridges?

I like Southwark Bridge. Segregated cycle lane with a big fat curb so lorries can't get into it.
It's a shame that the approach on either side of the river is a bit shit :-/

 

[Rebelda]

I like Southwark Bridge. Segregated cycle lane with a big fat curb so lorries can't get into it.
It's a shame that the approach on either side of the river is a bit shit :-/

Southwark is my best bridge too. Approach from n-s is fine if you come down Queen St (mixed use). There's a specific traffic light for bikes to get on. Bit hairy on the south side.

London Bridge is okay, although it's a bit of a bone shaker. I can get to it fine (n-s), but always go the wrong way going home again. Won't entertain Tower because the north-side approach is terrifying and I always get lost in Aldgate.

Blackfriars is a nice bridge, good views, but coming off it north-side is a bit scary.

 

[Orang Utan]

i can't even think of where southwark bridge is (well apart from southwark, obv). it can't ever have been on any natural route i've taken, which is weird, considering how often i travel between east and south london.
it's quite a nice bridge:

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[Orang Utan]

But not as nice as Hammersmith Bridge:

I like the story about how the original Doves typeface (the most beautiful typeface ever) resides in the river beneath the bridge cos Thomas Cobden-Sanderson didn't want his business partner to get hold of it:
http://www.economist.com/news/chris...ry-typeface-gets-second-life-fight-over-doves

 

[The Boy]

But not as nice as Hammersmith Bridge:

I like the story about how the original Doves typeface (the most beautiful typeface ever) resides in the river beneath the bridge cos Thomas Cobden-Sanderson didn't want his business partner to get hold of it:
http://www.economist.com/news/chris...ry-typeface-gets-second-life-fight-over-doves

Pretty sure there was a Guy on BBC breakfast this morning cos he went down and found the...whatever you call the pieces.

 

[Orang Utan]

Pretty sure there was a Guy on BBC breakfast this morning cos he went down and found the...whatever you call the pieces.

i think just a portion has been recovered

 

[Crispy]

i can't even think of where southwark bridge is (well apart from southwark, obv). it can't ever have been on any natural route i've taken, which is weird, considering how often i travel between east and south london.

When you look at it on a map, you can see why. You have to go out of your way to get onto it from the South, and then it dumps you unceremoniously onto Upper Thames Street on the North. Queen Street is all broken up in to shared-access pavement sections, but that junction with U.T.St is horrible. The East-West cycle route will fix it, thankfully

it's quite a nice bridge:

The previous bridge on the site was even better. Longest cast iron span ever built

 

[The Boy]

i think just a portion has been recovered

I defer to your superior knowledge. I wasn't really paying attention

 

[Orang Utan]

I defer to your superior knowledge. I wasn't really paying attention

i don't think my knowledge is superior, if you heard a more recent update on the radio. i read about this a couple of years ago

 

[The Boy]

i don't think my knowledge is superior, if you heard a more recent update on the radio. i read about this a couple of years ago

The radio? Nothing so high brow, squire. Was on BBC breakfast, so probably about three years out of date anyway .

 

[Orang Utan]

The radio? Nothing so high brow, squire. Was on BBC breakfast, so probably about three years out of date anyway .

sorry, i would never switch a telly on so early. nor a radio, for that matter!

 

[ChrisFilter]

How frightfully ghastly!

 

[Orang Utan]

what's wrong with saying ghastly? it was an apposite word, so i used it

 

[ChrisFilter]

It's more the horror of watching television or radio in the morning that made me chuckle. It reads like you're appalled at the very thought of something so gauche.