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How was your cycle commute?

Sigmund Fraud said:
Continuing London centric rant theme......yeah Kennington is a mess (I come home that way) there are also really fucked up roadworks on the N side of Blackfriars bridge that mean gridlock in the evening from Clerkenwell Road all the way down to the river.
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Southwark Bridge mate, you know it makes sense :D
 
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Chain snapped without warning :mad: Looks like something got caught in it, at the quick-link, one side of the link bent 90 degrees out. Luckily was only 10 min walk from home, able to swap to my fancy bike for the weekend. Still have a stupid chain to change on sunday. Hum ho.
 
Sorry for clogging up this commuting thread with my thoughts about bike purchases. Just noticed there's another thread for all that.
 
Tail backs all the way up through Brixton this morning due to the Oval works.

Why do people on motorbikes/scooters insist on blocking gaps in traffic that they can't fit through?
 
steeeve said:
Tail backs all the way up through Brixton this morning due to the Oval works.
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And northbound up through Clapham North to Stockwell as well
This is a nightmare already; I can;t be doing with it for the next six months.
 
I've just ordered this! [emoji43] [emoji4] very excited.http://www.wiggle.co.uk/verenti-defense-wr21-sora-2015/It's a little heavier than t'others at 10.4kg, but that's the weight of the medium one, and I'm getting XXS which is the perfect size for me, and I imagine it'd be under 10kg. I like the fact that although it's a road bike you could add a rack if you wanted. And I like the black and mudguards - very classic looking. I looked at reviews of the Sora groupset and they compared pretty favourably to the cheaper Claris and more expensive Tiagra groupset. I did a 40+ mile ride today with a friend on her roadbike, and although I carried very little with me, my heavy hybrid was definitely slowing me down. I can't wait to tackle some big hills on the new bike. Thanks for your feedback folks, it's been very helpful.

Just copied this post from the other cycling thread, which I should've posted on in the first place!
 
Sigmund Fraud said:
Continuing London centric rant theme......yeah Kennington is a mess (I come home that way) there are also really fucked up roadworks on the N side of Blackfriars bridge that mean gridlock in the evening from Clerkenwell Road all the way down to the river.
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Not roadworks, more exciting - it's the start of the building of the north-south segregated cycle super highway:

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2015/bike-to-the-future-pt-2-government-gilligan-royal-guards/
 
had an altercation with a man driving an eight wheeler today, who thought he could overtake me on walworth road and then park in the ASL, so I was almost run off the road. They say you shouldn't cycle up the inside of a lorry, and I never do, but I had no chance here. So I got on the pavement (had no choice as there was nowhere else to go) and quickly got in front of him to engage him and refused to move until he reluctantly acknowledged that he should not have overtaken nor parked in a supposed safe space for cyclists.
 
steeeve said:
Tail backs all the way up through Brixton this morning due to the Oval works.

Why do people on motorbikes/scooters insist on blocking gaps in traffic that they can't fit through?
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i had a bit of that too, all the way back home cos the traffic was bad cos of the bermondsey bomb. motorbikes riding in the cycle lane or just popping in and out of it without warning. it was a very angry commuting day today.
 
Took the back route suggested by Citymapper to avoid Oval - along the old LCN route #3:

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Extremely quiet. Added 5 mins to journey but some of that was checking the way. Doesn't feel like I've had a real bike ride though!
 
I started commuting again yesterday.

Got my standard puncture. :( Got the train(s) today, alternating until I get used to it again.
 
Winot said:
Took the back route suggested by Citymapper to avoid Oval - along the old LCN route #3:

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Extremely quiet. Added 5 mins to journey but some of that was checking the way. Doesn't feel like I've had a real bike ride though!
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Looks well fiddly when you can just power down the main road. I used on of those routes to get to my old work. Turned a 8.5 mile journey that took 35 minutes into a 9.5 mile journey that took 50 minutes, and no workout to show for it.
 
Orang Utan said:
Looks well fiddly when you can just power down the main road.
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I've been powering down the main road for 20 years (20 years come July ;)). The problem is that Cycle Superhighway roadworks at Oval mean that nobody's powering anywhere right now - horrible tailbacks all the way down Brixton Rd.
 
I'm trying to work out a route from West Dulwich to Nunhead. Looks quite pretty and hilly but not very fast. Hilly's good though and and it's 4 miles so twice as long and much tougher than my current commute which is all flat. Goes past a lot of schools so fast wouldn't be good anyway. Dulwich may be posh but it is pretty to cycle through. Some of it even feels like the countryside.

Anyway, i hope it helps me say goodbye to my winter tummy as my trousers are getting tight again.
 
Winot said:
I've been powering down the main road for 20 years (20 years come July ;)). The problem is that Cycle Superhighway roadworks at Oval mean that nobody's powering anywhere right now - horrible tailbacks all the way down Brixton Rd.
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Ah right - I thought you were just avoiding the bomb traffic yesterday
 
So, on my route to work this morning I got roadworks at:
Peckham Rye Station, Asylum Road (dropping the boy off, I don't go out of my way on purpose), that bit through Shad Thames, Minories, Bevis Marks, Moorgate and Chiswell Street. 'kinhell.
 
Orang Utan said:
Looks well fiddly when you can just power down the main road. I used on of those routes to get to my old work. Turned a 8.5 mile journey that took 35 minutes into a 9.5 mile journey that took 50 minutes, and no workout to show for it.
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surely it's not the road's fault that you're not making enough effort? ;)
 
Orang Utan said:
I'm trying to work out a route from West Dulwich to Nunhead. Looks quite pretty and hilly but not very fast. Hilly's good though and and it's 4 miles so twice as long and much tougher than my current commute which is all flat. Goes past a lot of schools so fast wouldn't be good anyway. Dulwich may be posh but it is pretty to cycle through. Some of it even feels like the countryside.

Anyway, i hope it helps me say goodbye to my winter tummy as my trousers are getting tight again.
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Depends where you're coming from in WD, but I'd do College Rd, WD Park, Barry Road, over the Rye, up Solomon's Passage (snort) and Linden Grove, really quite pleasant, and you can get a good blast down Barry road.
 
It's our definition of fast that's the issue here. 15mph is fast for me, I've only got very short legs and am often carrying 2 heavy panniers and a fiddle. So I get a great workout going down roads like that.
 
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